DODECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Aorimonia. 545 



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 ; the rest alternate. Fl. small, nearly sessile, light 

 purple ; each with a ])air of small bracteas at the base. Seg- 

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

 onlv 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. dW. rourn. t. \ou. Lam. 

 ^ 409. Gccrtn.t.73. 



Nat. Orel. Senticoso'. Liini. 3r>, liosacccr. Juss. 92. Sec 

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



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

 acute, permanent marginal segments; the tube subse- 

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

 sj)reading, notched, each with a small narrow claw, at- 

 tached to the rim of the calyx. Filam. ca])illary, irom 

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

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

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

 calvx, ovate, com})ressed. Styles lateral, sim})le, tlie 

 length of the stamens. Stiy^vi. obtuse, uniiivided. Seeds 

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

 ])ointed, erect, inclosed in the liardemcl tube ol tJie 

 calyx. 



Astringent, aromatic, hairy, mostly perennial herbs : with 

 inlerruj)tedly ])iiniate, cut, rarely ternate, teaves, eacii ac- 

 companied by a pair of stipulas unitcil to \.\\c foot static. 

 Flonrrs numerous, sjiikeil, yellow. 



