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ROSACEJE. (ROSE FAMILY.) 
spiked racemes : bracts 3-cleft. (Name a corruption of Arge~ 
monia , of the same derivation as Argemone.) 
1‘ Ewpatoiia, L. (Common Agrimony.) Stem and 
stalks hairy ; leaflets 5-7 with minute ones intermixed , oblong-obovate , 
coarsely toothed; petals twice the length of the calyx. — Borders of 
woods, common. July - Sept. — Root sweet-scented. 
2. A. parviflora, Ait. (Small-flowered Agrimony.) Stem 
and stalks bristly with brownish spreading hairs; leaflets crowded , 
1 -19, with smaller ones intermixed , lanceolate , acute, deeply and 
regularly cut-serrate, as well as the stipules ; petals small. — Woods 
and glades, Pennsylvania and southwestward. July. — Plant 4° -5° 
high. 
6. SANOUISORBA, L. Great Burnet. 
Calyx petal-like, 3-bracted, the tube 4-angular, constricted; 
the lobes 4, spreading. Petals none. Stamens 4 ; the filaments 
usually enlarging upwards. Pistils 1, rarely 2 : style slender, 
terminal: stigma pencil-form, tufted. Achenium included in the 
indurated 4-winged calyx-tube. Seed suspended. — Perennial 
(rarely annual) herbs, with unequally pinnate leaves, and small 
flow ers, sometimes polygamous, in close spikes or heads. (Name 
from sanguis, blood, and sorbeo, to absorb ; the plants having 
been esteemed as vulneraries.) 
1. S. Canadensis, L. (Canadian Burnet.) Stamens much 
onger than the calyx; spikes oblong, becoming cylindrical and 
e ongated in fruit; leaflets numerous, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, ser¬ 
rate, obtuse, heart-shaped at the base, stipellate ; stipules serrate, ad- 
t u° P et *°* e ’ — ®°g s a °d wet meadows. Aug. - Oct. — A 
ta 1 herb ; flowers white, sometimes purple. 
Poterium Sanguis6rba, the Common Burnet of the gardens, has 
monmcious polyandrous flowers. 
Tourn. Lady’s Mantle. 
Calyx-tube inversely conical, contracted at the top; lhub 4- 
parted, with as many alternate bractlets. Petals none. Sta¬ 
mens 1-4. Pistils 1 - 4 ; the slender style arising from near the 
base of the ovary ; the achenia included in the persistent calyx* 
Low herbs, with palmately lobed or compound leaves, aud 
small corymbed greenish flowers. (From Alkemelyeh , the Arabic 
name.) 
