No. 36. EUFATORZUM. ±^5 



DESCRIPTION Root perennial, horizontal, 



crooked, with scanty fibres, and sending up many 

 Stems, which are upright, simple at the base, branched 

 above in a trichotome form, forming a depressed 

 corymb ; from two to five feet high, round, covered 

 with flexuose hairs ; the whole plant has a greyish 

 green color, and even the flowers are of a dull white. 

 Leaves opposite, decussate, connate at the base, or 

 united to each other there, where broadest, and gra- 

 dually tapering to a sharp point, from three to eight 

 inches long, narrow oblong, rough above, woolly be- 

 neath, margin serrulate, upper leaves often sessile, 

 not united. 



Inflorescence in a dense depressed terminal Corymb 

 formed by smaller fastigate corymbs, peduncles hairy, 

 as well ^s the perianthe or common calix, each in- 

 closing from twelve to fifteen floscules or florets, 

 Scales lanceolate acute, florets tubulose white, five 

 black anthers united into a tube. Seeds black, pris- 

 matic, oblong, base acute, pappus with scabrous hairs. 



HISTORY — A very striking plant, easiJy recog- 

 nized among all others, even when not in bloom, by 

 its connate leaves, perforated by the Stem, as in the 

 Teazel or Bipsacus fullonutn. It belongs to a genus 

 containing nearly one hundred species, all very dif- 

 ferent from this except the B. sessilifoUum which is 

 nearly alike, but has smooth Stems, leaves rounded at 

 the base, not united nor tomentose, flowers whiter, 

 whereby they will be easily distinguished. 



One half of the Species grow in America, and many 

 have medical properties; but this appears the most 



