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EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. 



English Name— BONESET. 



French Name — Eupatoike percefefille. 

 German Name Durchwachsener Wasser- 



DOST. 



Officinal Name — Eupatcrium perfoUatum. 



Vulgar Names — ^Thorough- wort, Boneset, Joe- 

 pye. Teazel, Feverwort, Sweating-plant, Thorough- 

 stem, Crosswort, Indian Sage, Agueweed, Thorough- 

 wax, Vegetable Antimony. 



Synonym — E. connatum Michaux. 



Aitthorities — Lin. Mich. Pursh, Golden, Schoepf, 

 Cutler, Stokes, B. Barton, Torrey, Eaton, Elliott, 

 Thatcher, Coxe, Anderson, Guthrie, Burson, A. 

 Ives, all the Dispens. and Mat. Med. Bigelow, fig. 

 2 and Sequel, W. Barton, fig. 37. 



Genus Eupatorium — Flowers compound floscu- 

 lose. Perianthe imbricate, unequal, oblong or cy* 

 lindric. Phoranthe naked. Floscules fiye toothed, 

 Style exserted bifid. Seeds oblong angular. Pappus 

 fubplumose. — X.eaves commonly opposite or yerticil- 



Spe 



ymbose 



Stemvillose, cylindric; 



leaves opposite connate-perfoliate, oblong, tapering 

 acute, serrulate, rugose above, 

 flowers with a dozen of floscules 



