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rowly 3-cleft or entire. Flowers 4"-6" broad, bright yellow; 

 anther-cells separated by a distinct connective; flower buds 

 ovoid, narrowed to a prominent point, minutely glandulose. 

 Mature fruit reflexed, large, 3"-6" long over all and as wide 

 across the bristles, short-turbinate, mostly contracted abruptly 

 to the stipitate base, strongly fluted, pulverulent-glandulose, of- 

 ten slightly strigose at the extreme base ; bristles numerous, 

 spinose, loosely covering the convex disk, the lowermost re- 

 flexed from the prominently expanded margin of the disk, those 

 above spreading and erect, the innermost slightly exceeding the 

 acute beak-like calycular process and at least half the length 

 of the fruit. The mature calyx-lobes taper into rigid, minutely 

 hooked points which are finally incurved together, a feature which 

 Walroth recognized by his name giyposcpala. The roots are 

 fibrous, often slightly thickened throughout their length, but 

 never tuberous. They are not fragrant as those of the European 

 A. Eiipatoria are said to be. (Plate 282, fig. i.) 



Borders of woods and thickets in sun or half shade, growing 

 in vigorous groups or sometimes scattered. 



Beeins to flower at New York in the first week of July, two 

 or three weeks in advance of any other species, and ceases to 

 flower in August, also earlier than any of its congeners. The 

 date of first flowering has ranged in nine years from June 29 to 

 July 10. 



The young herbage, when crushed, exhales an agreeable fra- 

 grance which somtimes even suggests that of the Japanese Honey- 

 suckle. 



It may be noted that the name hirsuta of Muhlenberg now 

 adopted for this plant displaces hirsuta of Bongard for a Brazilian 

 species. 



2. Agrimonia striata Michx. 



Slender, commonly ii^°-2i^° high (8'-5^, simple to deli- 

 cately paniculate-branched, minutely glandulose nearly through- 

 out, viscid above and in the racemes, agreeably aromatic. Stem 

 glabrous or with scattered spreading hairs (sometimes thinly hir- 

 sute at the base, and rarely finely subpubescent above), the slen- 

 der leafstalks thinly hairy-pubescent to glabrate, scabrous on the 

 lower side. Leaves rarely reaching nearly the extreme size of 

 those of A. hirsuta, but usually much smaller. Leaflets sessile or 

 subpetiolulate or the odd leaflet on a slender, sometimes foliolate 

 stalk, commonly two pairs (I-4 pairs, the larger number occurring 

 only rarely and on the lowest leaves), thin, glabrous or nearly so 



