COMPOSIT A. 
Asterworts. 
Nov 34; 
EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. 
Boneset. Thoroughwort, Feverwort, &c. 
Geog. Position. United States. 
Quality. Bitter. wot 
Power. Sudorific, tonic. 
Use. Dyspepsia, catarrhal affections, fevers. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSTS. 
Natural Classification. | 
Orper COMPOSITZ. | 
Linnean Classification. 
Cuass XIX. Syngenesia. Onrver Polygamia AZqualis. 
Avrnorities.— Lin. Sp. Pl. 1174. Willd. Sp. Pl. TIT. 1761. Pursh. Flor. 
N. A. II. 516. Lind. Flor. Med. 451. Bigelow, Med. Bot. I. 33. Barton, Veg. 
Mat. Med. II. 125. Raf. Med. Flor. I. 174. U.S.Disp. 326. Ec. Disp. U.S. 170. 
Loud. Encyc. Pl. 608. Ballard and Garrod, Mat. Med. 315. Thomson, Mat. Med. 
*108. Pereira, Mat. Med. II. 399. Griff. Med. Bot. 390. Gray, Bot. Text-Book, 
811. Beach, Fam. Ph. 655. Howard, Bot. Med. 247. Kost, Mat. Med. 200. 
Henry, Med. Herb. 55. Wood, Class-Book, 316. 
Genus EUPATORIUM. 
Named in honor of Mithridates Eupator, king of Pontus, who first used it in 
medicine. The properties of the Asiatic or ee ionteeah were Minds known by 
him. Pliny. : 
Synonymes. — Eupatoire perfoliée @e ), Daitchteneliseae® Weasserdost (Ger) 
Tue Essentian CHARACTERS. 
Catyx. Closely adherent to the ovary, the limb wanting, o 
membranaceous and divided into palez, bristles, hairs, K&e., 
called pappus. oe 
Coro.ua. Superior, consisting of five united petals, ether 
ligulate or tubular. a 
Sramens. Five, alternate with the lobes of the corolla. An 
thers cohering into a cylinder. 
Ovary. Inferior, one-celled, one-ovuled. Style twolet t the 
_ inner margins of the branches occupied by the stigmas. 
