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rowly 3-cleft or entire. Flowers 4’’-6” broad, bright yellow; 
anther-cells separated by a distinct connective; flower buds 
ovoid, narrowed to a prominent point, minutely glandulose. 
Mature fruit reflexed, large, 3/’-6” long over all and as wide 
across the bristles, short-turbinate, mostly contracted abruptly 
to the stipitate base, strongly fluted, pulverulent-glandulose, of- 
ten slightly strigose at the extreme base; bristles numerous, 
spinose, loosely covering the convex disk, the lowermost re- 
flexed from the prominently expanded margin of the disk, those 
above spreading and erect, the innermost slightly exceeding the 
acute beak-like calycular process and at least half the length 
of the fruit. The mature calyx-lobes taper into rigid, minutely 
hooked points which are finally incurved together, a feature which 
Walroth recognized by his name gryposepala. The roots are 
fibrous, often slightly thickened throughout their length, but 
never tuberous. They are not fragrant as those of the European 
A, Eupatoria are said to be. (Plate 282, fig. 1.) 
Borders of woods and thickets in sun or half shade, growing 
in vigorous groups or sometimes scattered. 
Begins to flower at New York in the first week of July, two 
or three weeks in advance of any other species, and ceases to 
flower in August, also earlier than any of its congeners. The 
date of first flowering has ranged in nine years from June 29 to 
July to. 
The young herbage, when crushed, exhales an agreeable fra- 
grance which somtimes even suggests that of the Japanese Honey- 
suckle. 
It may be noted that the name /zrsuta of Muhlenberg now 
adopted for this plant displaces /irsuta of Bongard for a Brazilian 
species. 
2. AGRIMONIA STRIATA Michx. ; 
Slender, commonly 14%4°-21%4° high (8’-5°, simple to delt- 
cately paniculate-branched, minutely glandulose nearly through- 
out, viscid above and in the racemes, agreeably aromatic. Stem 
glabrous or with scattered spreading hairs (sometimes thinly bif 
sute at the base, and rarely finely subpubescent above), the slen- 
der leafstalks thinly hairy-pubescent to glabrate, scabrous on the 
lower side. Leaves rarely reaching nearly the extreme size of a 
those of A. hirsuta, but usually much smaller. Leaflets sessile OF 
subpetiolulate or the odd leaflet on a slender, sometimes foliolate = 
__ stalk, commonly two pairs (1-4 pairs, the larger number occurring 
__ only rarely and on the lowest leaves), thin, glabrous or nearly S° 
