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310 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
rostellata. Only two specimens of A. rostellata are included 
in this lot, one labeled A. parviflora, as cited above, and the 
other being called A. striata. Only one specimen of A. platy- 
carpa was found and that was labeled A. Eupatoria. Тһе 
remaining eight specimens are all A. pubescens, of which 
three are indicated as A. Eupatoria, one A. striata, and four 
are left blank as to specific name. 
It will thus be seen that these sixteen earlier collections 
bear but three names, six being called A. parviflora, four 
A. Eupatoria, and two being given the name of A. striata, 
while four collectors did not signify any choice of specific 
names. It is true that one of these sheets bears a label on 
which the species is indicated as A. microcarpa, but this 
specimen came to me unnamed, and sometime in 1893 I af- 
fixed this name to the specimen, being led to do this by 
Britton's ‘Manual.’ 
It is hard to conceive how two such unlike species as A. 
rostellata and A. pubescens should both be named A. striata 
by the collectors, but in those days A. striata was little 
understood, and Michaux’s species was not found in any of 
the manuals or floras, although it was well characterized and 
is one of our most distinet species. 
Several authors have studied and described species and 
varieties of Agrimonia, notably Solander, Michaux, Muh- 
lenberg? Pursh, Torrey and Gray, Маго, Britton,’ 
Bicknell, and Kearney.” 
Our oldest species is 4. parviflora Solander, a distinet 
species by itself, and one generally understood. The next 
species to be described is Michaux’s A. striata, here men- 
tioned because it was formerly confused with A. rostellata 
1Ait. Hort. Kew. 2:129-131. 1789. 
2р], Вог. Am. 1:287. 1803. 
3Cat. Pl. Am. Sept. 47. 1813. 
4Fl. Am. Sept. 1:335—336. 1816. 
er . 1842. 
"Bull. Torr. Dot, Club 19:221. 1892. 
id 896. 
9Ibid. 24: :565. 1897. 
