400SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-^QU.Eupatorium. 



y. In dry places where water has been, or about the margins of 

 ponds. 



Annual. September. 



Root with many stout fibres. Herb more erect, and taller, with less 

 extended branches than the foregoing species. Leaves undivided, _ 

 pointed, less deeply serrated ; the upper ones dilated at the 

 base and often com'bined, embracing the stem. FL drooping, 

 though their -talks are quite straight to the very summit, larger 

 and handsomer than the last, especially when furnished with 

 their spreading golden rays in the variety /3. The seeds are often 

 smooth, and their bristles, always rough, are 4. 



y is certainly nothing more than a starved plant of this species, 

 growing out of the water. Thejiowei- is drooping in my speci- 

 men from Miller's herbarium, though drawn erect by Dillenius. 

 I have an analogous small variety of B. tripartita from Switzer- 

 land. 



:^9. EUPATORIUM. Hemp-agrimony. 



Linn. Gen. 4\3. Juss.\7S. FL Br.859. Tourn.t. 259. Lam. 

 t.672. Gcertn.t 166. 



Nat. Orel. CompositcE, e, oppodtifolicje. Linn. 49. Linn. MS.t 

 Corymhiferce, sect. 1. J ass. 55. 



Gommon Cal. oblong, imbricated; scales lanceolate, erect, 

 unequal, unarmed. Cor. compound, uniform, of a few,, 

 parallel, level-topped, perfect, funnel-shaped, regular 

 Jiorets; their limb in 5 equal spreading segments. Filam. 5, 

 capillary, very short. Antk. in a cylindrical tube, not 

 prominent. Germ, oblong, angular, small. Style thread- 

 shaped, prominent, cloven as far as the top of the anthers. 

 Stigmas spreading, oblang, downy, bluntish. Seed-vessel\ 

 none, except the slightly spreading calyx. Seed oblong, 

 angular. Down sessile, rough or feathery, permanent. 

 Mecept. small, naked. 



Perennial roughish herbs, in some instances shrubby, chiefly 

 American. Leaves opposite, mostly simple and strongly 

 serrated ; in our solitary species deeply divided. FL ter- 

 minal, small, numerous, densely corymbose, white, blueish. 

 or reddish. Qualities bitter, aromatic and tonic. 



h E. cannabinmn. Common Hemp-agrimony. 



Leaves in three, or five, deep, lanceolate segments ; the mid- 

 dle one longest. 



E.cannabinum. Linn.Sp.Pl\\72>. mild.v.SA7D6. FLBr.SQO.. 

 Engl. Bot. V, 6.i. 428. Hook. Scot. 238. FL Dan. t. 745. Rati 

 Sijn. 179. 



