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One of the authors of Torrey & Gray's Flora, probably Dr. Gray, 

 had seen this sheet, for they cite A. striata Michx. and appendage 

 an exclamation point ( !) after the same. They gave this as a 

 synonym of their A. Eupatoria parviflora, which was based on 

 A. parviflora DC., the same as A. rostellata Wallr. They also 

 cite under this a specimen collected by Dr. Pitcher. This specimen 

 is in the Torrey herbarium and belongs also to A. rostellata. This 

 shows that Torrey and Gray regarded A. striata Michx. the same 

 as what we now call A. rostellata. It was, therefore, not strange 

 that Mr. Bicknell followed them, especially as one of the specimens 

 in Michaux's herbarium belonged to that species. He, therefore, 

 proposed a new name, A. Brittoniana, for the plant represented 

 by the left-hand specimen in Michaux's herbarium and here 

 treated under the name A. striata. By the courtesy of the Gray 

 Herbarium we have received a print of a photograph of the 

 type of A. striata, and this shows that the left-hand specimen is to 

 be regarded as the type, not only bearing the name Agrimonia 

 striata Michx., but also the word Canada on the labels. This 

 is also the only species of the two which agrees with the description : 

 "fructibus . . . sulcato-striatis. , ' 



Agrimonia Pringlei Rydb. One specimen of this, as said 

 before, was included in A. microcarpa by Wallroth. It is true 

 that it resembles that species, A. platycarpa, and A. rostellata in 

 habit and leaf-form, but not in pubescence nor in the roots. The 

 leaves are glandular-granuliferous and more or less pubescent as 

 they are in A. striata, and the roots are not tuberous-thickened* 

 It is represented by the following specimens: 



Mexico, State of Vera Cruz: near Jalapa, 1903, C. G- 

 Pringle 11876; Huatusco, 1841, Liebmann 1637; State of Vera 

 Cruz, Pringle 11830. 



Agrimonia parviflora Ait. This species has been the best under- 

 stood of the North American species except A. incisa. It is 

 true that in the beginning two additional names were given to it, 

 A. suaveolens by Pursh, and A. serrifolia by Wallroth. The latter 

 was probably led astray by De Candolle who had used the name 

 A. parviflora for another species, viz. A. rostellata. Lately, Pro- 

 fessor Urban* has proposed a new species, A. polyphylla. To me 



* Symb. Ant. 7: 227. 1912. 



