DODECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Agvimonia. 315 



Annual. August. 



Root tapering. Herb of humble growth, with several purplish, 

 leafy stems, seldom branched, of which one only is upright ; the 

 rest spreading or recumbent. Leaves bluntish, varying in 

 breadth, about an inch long ; a pair or two of the lowermost 

 opposite 5 the rest alternate. FL small, nearly sessile, light 

 purple ; each with a pair of small bracteas at the base. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx all short, the narrower ones spreading. Stam. 

 only 6, short, in a single row within the tube of the calyx. Some 

 flowers are deficient in a sixth of all their parts. 



DODECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 

 247. AGRIMONIA. Agrimony. 



Linn. Gen. 24]. Juss. 336. FL Br. 511. Tourn.t.155. Lam. 

 t. 409. Gccrtn. t. 73. 



Nat. Ord. Senticoscc. Linn. 35. Rosacece. Juss. 92. See 

 n. 74, 78 ; also Grammar 172, sect. 3. 



Cat. inferior, of 1 leaf, tubular, permanent, with 5 small, 

 acute, permanent marginal segments ; the tube subse- 

 quently hardened, closed over the seeds. Pet. 5, flat, 

 spreading, notched, each with a small narrow claw, at- 

 tached to the rim of the calyx. Filam. capillary, from 

 the rim of the calyx, shorter than the corolla, indetermi- 

 nate in number, from 7 to 20. Anth. small, compressed, 

 2-lobed. Germens 2, sometimes 3, in the bottom of the 

 calyx, ovate, compressed. Styles lateral, simple, the 

 length of the stamens. Stigm. obtuse, undivided. Seeds 

 2, occasionally 1, or 3, ovate, smooth, compressed, 

 pointed, erect, inclosed in the hardened tube of the 

 calyx. 



Astringent, aromatic, hairy, mostly perennial herbs ; with 

 interruptedly pinnate, cut, rarely ternate, leaves, each ac- 

 companied by a pair of stipulas united to the footstalk. 

 Flowers numerous, spiked, yellow. 



