ROSE FAMILY 



flowers of strawberry type, its five petals making 

 a snowy star, whose centre, white with many stamens 



and white carpels, com- 

 pletes its beauty. It is an 

 exquisite creature, compan- 

 ioned by the sturdy Winter- 

 green, the Bunchberry, and 

 sometimes the creeping Par- 

 tridge-Vine. 



TALL AGRIMONY. HAIRY 

 AGRIMONY 



Agrimdnia hirsuta 



Name a corruption of 

 Argernonia, because for 

 some reason it was sup- 

 posed to have a value 

 in alchemy. 



Perennial. Native. A com- 

 mon, insignificant, long- 

 stemmed, sprawling plant, in 

 woods and thickets, notice- 

 able in July, principally be- 

 cause of the green, bristly 

 seed balls upon the lengthened 

 flower-stem; the small yellow 

 flowers are not conspicuous. New Brunswick to Minne- 

 sota, south to Carolina and Kansas. June-September. 



Stem. — Three to five feet high, more or less hairy with 

 soft, long hairs, branching. 



Leaves. — Alternate, large, five to ten inches long, 

 compounded mostly of seven leaflets, clasping the stem 

 with leaf-like stipules. Leaflets elliptical or broadly 

 ovate, coarsely veined, crenate-serrate, acute at apex, 



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Tall Agrimony. Agrimdnia hirsiita 



