582 : ROSACELZ.. 
_AGRIMONIA EUPATORIUY, Linn. 
Fig.—Wallroth Beitrag. Bot. 1. 54, t. 1, f. 9; Camb. in 
Jacq. Voy. Bot. 55, t. 68. Agrimony (Hng.), Aigremoine 
(Fr). : 
Hab.—Temperate Himalayas, Persia, Europe. The herb 
and fruit. 
- Vernacular.—Shajrat-el-baraghis, Shaukat-el-muntineh 
(Arab.) 
History, Uses, &c.—This herb is the €evrar@piov of the — 
Greeks Dioscorides (iy., 39) describes it as having inverted 
fruit, so rough and bristly that they adhere to the clothes 
when ripe. The fruit and herb was used both externally and 
internally as an aromatic astringent. Pliny (25, 29) says:— 
* The Eupatoria also is a plant under royal patronage (Hupator 
Mithridates, king of Pontus), the stem is ligneous, hairy, and. 
swarthy, a cubit or more in length. The leaves are arranged 
at regular intervals and resemble those of cinquefoil (Poten- 
tilla) or hemp; they have five indentations at the edge, and 
are swarthy like the stem and downy. The root is not used. 
The seed taken in wine is a sovereign remedy for dysentery.” 
A. Hupatorium appears to have been known to the Western 
Arabs under the names of Shajrat-el-barégith and. Shaukat-el- 
muntineh, and latterly as Ghafith or Kh4fil. Ibn Sina and the 
Eastern Arabs and Persians adopted a Persian plant called 
le (Ghéfat) as representing the Eupatorion of the Grecks, 
and describe a plant having the foliage of Agrimony but with 
along dark-blue fower. This plant is still sold in the East 
under the name of Ghéfith or Ghafis, and is Gentiana Olivieri, 
Griseb., which Aitchison observed growing in such profusion 
on the sandy downs of the Badghis as to give a blue colouring 
to them. It is called Gul kalli by the Persian peasants from its 
‘being used to cure (kalli) or ringworm of the scalp in 
children. The Hindus do not appear to be acquainted with 
the medicinal properties of Agrimony, but it is still used in 
Europe asa popular astringent and stimulant in gargles for — 
