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* EUPATORIUM glandulosum. 

 Glandular Eupatorium. 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SQUALLS. 



Nat. ord. Composite § EuPATORiEiE Lessing. (^Introduction to the Na- 

 tural System of Botany, p. 197.) 



EUPATORIUM L. Capitulum. pauci — s. multi — nee 4-florum. Pappus 

 uniserialis non plumosus. Corolla limbo a Uibo non distincto. Involucrun 



pauci-multiserlale. Rachis ebracteolata. AchcEnium 4-5-quetrum. Arbo- 



res, frutices, ant herba;, hi Europa et Asia, sed longe plerceque in America 

 crescentes, pi. erecti, ramis foliisque oppositis, sive verticillatis, rariits alter- 

 7iis ; capitulis violaceis v. albis, corymbosis s. corymboso-yaniculatis. Lessing. 



§ 4. Involucrum campanulatum ; folioUs crebris subcequalibus lanceo- 

 latis aculis. Caidis scepius herbaceus. Kunth. synops. 2.418. 



E. glandulosum ; caule herbaceo paniculato glanduloso-hirto, foliis oppositis 

 ovato-triangularibus subacuminatis grosse serratis supra glabris subtus pilo- 

 siusculis, coiymbis terminalibus trifidis, ramis ramulisque glanduloso-hirtis, 

 involucri foliolis acutis subciliatis exterioribus pubescentibus. Humb. et 

 Kunth. nov. Gen. et Sp. pi. vol. A. p. 122. t. 346. Sijnops. I. c. 



Caulis herbaceus, fusco-purpurascens, pilis brevibus erectis glaridtilosis 

 densissime obsitvs, 3-4 pedes allies, ramosus. Folia in plantd vegetiore 

 rhomboidea, v. triangulari-ovata, petiolata, basi cuneata integerri}na,apicem 

 versus grosse serrata, in debiliore oblonga, vix rhomboidea et breviiis petio- 

 lata ; supra glabra venis triplicibus costceformibus altihs impressis, subtus 

 puhescentia, petiolo glanduloso. Flores ulbi, leviter suaveolentes, ramis 

 injlorescentice corymbosis glanduloso-pilosis. Involucrum campanulatum ; 

 squamis subulatis pallidc viridibus, glandulosis, subcequalibus, appressis. 

 Receptaculum planum, nudum. Achenia nigra, tetraquetra, Icevigata, pappo 

 simplici pauciradiato pubescente coronaia. 



A native of Mexico, whence seeds were received by the 

 Horticultural Society some years since, through the favour of 

 the late Mr. Canning. It was found by Humboldt and Bon- 



* Pliny says that Eupator, King of Pontus, first used the Eupator herb 

 medicinally. The Eupatorion of the Greeks was however not this genus, but the 

 modern Agrimony. 



