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AGRIMONIA EUPATORIA. ORD. XXVII. Senticose. 501 
Dodecandria Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 607. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-dentatus, altero obvallatus. Petala 5. Sem. 2 
in fundo calycis. 
Sp. Ch. A foliis caulinis pinnatis, impari petiolata, fructibus 
hispidis. 
ROOT perennial, reddish, scaly. Stalk erect, round, hairy, 
reddish, varying from one to three feet in height. Leaves 
alternate, interruptedly pinnated, composed of five or six pair 
of pinne, with an odd one at the end: the large pinne are com- 
monly sessile, opposite, ovate, deeply serrated, rough. Stipule 
two, opposite, serrated, spreading. Bractez trifid. Flowers yel- 
low, on short peduncles, in long simple spikes. Calyx permanent, 
divided into five segments, which are ovate, pointed, externally 
surrounded with rigid hairs, internally closed with a yellow sub- 
stance of a glandular appearance: involucrum at the base of the 
germen, composed of two dentated leaves. Corolla composed of 
five petals, which are ovate, yellow, spreading, inserted into the 
glandular substance of the calyx. Filaments eleven or. twelve, 
yellowish. Antherz two-lobed. Germen beneath the calyx, 
supporting two styles, with blunt stigmata. Capsule formed of 
the calyx, containing two roundish smooth seeds. 
It is common in fields aoe hedges and shady places, flowering 
in June and July. 
“ The leaves of Agrimony have aslightly bitterish roughish taste, 
accompanied with an agreeable though very weak aromatic flavour : 
the flowers are in smell stronger and more agreeable than the 
leaves, and in taste somewhat weaker. They readily give out their 
virtues both to water and to rectified spirit. In distillation with | 
water the leaves afford a small portion of a yellowish essential oil, 
which smells strongly and agreeably of the herb.” * 
* Lewis, I. c. 
No. 42.—vot. 3. 6 1 
