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VOL. II. 



5. Agrimonia striata Michx. Britton's Agrimony. Fig. 2271. 



A. striata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 287. 1803. 

 Agrimonia Brittoniana Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 

 23 : 517. 1896. 



Robust, 2-6 tall, virgately branched. Roots 

 fibrous. Stem hirsute-pubescent with short 

 spreading brownish hairs, sub-appressed above ; 

 leaves numerous; leaflets 7-9, rarely n, oblique 

 to the rachis, tetragonal-elliptic to rhomboid- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, deeply and closely 

 serrate, dull green, thickish, rugose, softly pubes- 

 cent beneath, glabrate above, their margins finely 

 scabrous-ciliolate ; interposed leaf-segments nar- 

 row, usually several pairs; stipules lanceolate, 

 acuminate, laciniate ; racemes long, erect or as- 

 cending; flowers crowded, 3"-s" wide; fruit 3"- 

 4" long, reflexed, long-turbinate, deeply grooved, 

 unmargined ; disk flat or concave ; bristles often 

 purplish, short, crowded, inflexed and connivent 

 over the sepals. 



Along thickets and roadsides, Newfoundland to 

 Saskatchewan, West Virginia, Nebraska and New 

 Mexico. June-Sept. 



6. Agrimonia parviflora Soland. Many-flowered Agrimony. Fig. 2272. 



Agrimonia parviflora Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 2: 130. 1789. 



Virgately branched, 2-6 high, with long 

 racemes. Stem densely hirsute with coarse 

 brownish hairs, villous abouve ; leaves crowded, 

 the lower often deflexed ; leaflets 9-17, close 

 together, spreading, lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrate, rather 

 thin, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, espe- 

 cially on the veins, very glandular; interposed 

 leaf-segments mostly 4 or 5 crowded pairs ; 

 stipules laciniate, acuminate; flowers very 

 numerous, 3"-s" broad; the buds rounded- 

 truncate; fruit loosely reflexed, small, glandu- 

 lar, dilated-turbinate with a prominent elevated 

 disk; bristles reflexed, spreading and erect. 



In moist or dry soil, Connecticut, to Michigan, 

 Kansas, Georgia and Mississippi. Roots fibrous. 

 July-Oct. 



23. WALDSTEINIA Willd. Neue Schr. Gesell. Nat. Fr. 2 : 105. pi. 4. 1799. 



Perennial herbs, with the aspect of Strawberries, with alternate mainly basal long-petioled 

 3-5-foliolate or lobed leaves, membranous stipules, and yellow corymbose flowers on bracted 

 scapes. Calyx persistent, the tube top-shaped, minutely 5-bracteolate or bractless at the 

 summit, 5-lobed. Petals 5, obovate, longer than the calyx-lobes. Stamens 8, inserted on the 

 throat of the calyx ; filaments rigid, persistent. Carpels 2-6, inserted on a short villous recep- 

 tacle; style nearly terminal, deciduous, filiform. Achenes 2-6, obliquely obovoid, pubescent. 

 Seed erect. ' [Named in honor of Franz Adam von Waldstein-Wartenburg, 1750-1823, a 

 German botanist.] 



Five known species, natives of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, another occurs 

 in Georgia. Type species : Waldsteinia geoides Willd. 



Petals twice as long as the calyx-lobes or longer. 

 Petals as long as the calyx-lobes or shorter. 



1. W.fragarioides. 



2. W. Doniana. 



