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4. Agrimonia mollis (T. & G.) Britton. 
Soft Agrimony. (Fig. 1960.) 
Agrimonia Eupatoria var. mollis T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 
431. 1840. 
A. mollis Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 19: 221. 1892. 
Virgately branched, 114°-6° tall. Roots tuber- 
ous. Stem pubescent, or villous below, finely 
pubescent or canescent above, as also the racemes, 
Leaves thickish, dull green, veiny, pale and vel- 
vety-pubescent beneath; leaflets mostly 7 (5-11), 
spreading, narrowly oblong to obovate, obtuse or 
acutish at the apex, crenate to dentate; interposed 
leaf-segments oblong, mostly a single pair; stipules 
lanceolate to ovate-oblong, cut-toothed or lobed; 
flowers 3/’-4’’ broad, the buds subglobose, obtuse; 
fruit 2’” long or more, ascending, spreading or 
loosely reflexed, oblong, to broadly turbinate, disk 
flat, or convex, the ascending slender bristles nearly 
in a single row. 
Dry woods and thickets, Connecticut to Michigan, 
North Carolinaand Kansas. July-—Oct. 
ya Yi 5. Agrimonia Brittoniana Bicknell. 
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Agrimonia Brittoniana Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 
23: 517. 18096. 
Robust, 2°-6° tall, virgately branched. Roots 
fibrous. Stem hirsute-pubescent with short 
spreading* brownish hairs, sub-appressed above; 
leaves numerous; leaflets 7-9, rarely 11, ob- 
lique to the rachis, tetragonal-elliptic to rhom- 
boid-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, deeply and 
closely serrate, dull green, thickish, rugose, softly 
pubescent beneath, glabrate above, their margins 
finely scabrous-ciliolate; interposed leaf-segments 
harrow, usually several pairs; stipules lanceolate, 
acuminate, laciniate; racemes long, erect or as- 
cending; flowers crowded, 3//-5/’ wide; fruit 3//— 
4’ long, reflexed, long-turbinate, deeply grooved; 
unmargined; disk flat or concave; bristles often 
purplish, short, crowded, inflexed and connivent 
over the sepals. 
Along thickets and roadsides, Quebec to northern 
New York, south along or near the mountains to West 
Virginia. Also inthe Rocky Mountains. June-Sept. 
Ly 
6. Agrimonia parviflora Soland. Many-flowered Agrimony. (Fig. 1962.) 
Agrimonia parviflora Soland. in Ait. Hort. Ma 
Kew. 2:130. 1789. 
Virgately branched, 2°-6° high, with long 
racemes. Stem densely hirsute with coarse 
brownish hairs, villous above; leaves crowded, 
the lower often deflexed; leaflets 9-17, close 
together, spreading, lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrate, rather 
thin, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 
especially on the veins, very glandular; in- 
terposed leaf-segments mostly 4 or 5 crowded 
pairs; stipules laciniate, acuminate; flowers 
very numerous, 3/’-5’’ broad; the buds 
rounded-truncate; fruit loosely reflexed, 
small, glandular, dilated-turbinate with a 
proment elevated disk, bristles reflexed, 
spreading and erect. 
In moist or dry soil, southern New York to 
Michigan, south to Georgia and Mississippi. 
Roots fibrous. July—Oct. 
