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was at one time called “ Philanthropos ;” according to some old writers, on account of 
its beneficent and valuable properties ; others say that the name arose from the cir- 
cumstance of the seeds clinging to the garments of passers by, as if desirous of accom- 
panying them. Gerarde inclines to this interpretation of the name. The whole plant 
yields a yellow dye ; when gathered in September, it produces a naukeen-colour ; later 
in the year the dye is of a darker hue. 
. SPECIES? IL-AGRIMONIA ODORATA. Will. 
Puate CCCCXVITI. 
A. Eupatoria, var. odorata, Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 198. 
Stem erect, usually branched. Leaves pinnate, with the alternate 
pairs of pinnz much smaller than the others; leaflets oblong-oval 
or elliptical, inciso-crenate-serrate, downy above and more densely 
so beneath, where they are pilose on the veins and sprinkled with 
small yellowish sessile glands. Stipules half-cordate-ovate, acu- 
minated, incised. Fruit-calyx bellshaped-hemispherical, with 10 
obsolete furrows not extending below the middle of the tube, 
surmounted by a ring bearing several rows of hooked spines, con- 
taining usually 2 achenes; segments connivent, acuminated. 
In thickets and waste places. Rare. I have only seen it from 
the Isle of Wight, Hants; the neighbourhood of ‘Tunbridge Wells, 
Kent; Staunton Harold, Leicestershire; Welchpool, Montgomery- 
shire; and county Kerry; but it occurs as far North as the Lake 
district, and is probably often passed over, from its similarity to the 
common species. 
England, Ireland. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 
This plant has quite the aspect of large specimens of A. Eupa- 
toria, of which it ought probably to be considered merely a sub- 
species. The stems are frequently 3 or 4 feet high, and the 
leaflets 2 or 3 inches long. The racemes are more dense, the 
flowers larger, the fruiting calyces considerably larger and much 
more widened out towards the mouth of the tube, with the furrows 
rudimentary or even quite undistinguishable. When there is only 
a single achene, it is nearly globular; but when there are 2, they 
are compressed. The glands on the underside of the leaves exhale 
a resinous odour. 
Fragrant Agrimony. 
French, Aigremoine Odorante. German, Wohlriechender Odermeniug. 
GENUS I1V.—SANGUISORBA. Linn. 
Flowers perfect, rarely polygamous. Calyx-tube turbinate, 
with an annular contraction at the throat, 4-winged and indurated 
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