464 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA -EQUALIS. J 



cannabimm EUPATORIUM folils digitatis. Spx pi. 11 73-; " 



'• {Ger, em. 711./. 2. Moris, hift. f. 7. /. 13. /. i. 



Blackwell i. no.) 



Hemp-agrimony, Dutch-agrimony. Angiis. 



On the banks of rivers and lakes noc unfrequent. 

 In Clifton-Ings, and among the rocks below 

 Kinghorne. Dr. Farfons. %. VIII. 



The Iflalks are hairy, quadrangular, and fror» 

 three to fix feet high : the leaves are hairy, op- 

 pofite, ternate, the lobes ferrated, the middle 

 one oval-lanceolate, and much larger than the 

 others. In fome the lateial lobes are wanting, 

 or elfe are very fmall. The flowers are of a^ 

 pale red or purple color, and grow in thick 

 umbels at the top of the branches : the fcales 

 of the calyx are of unequal fize, not above ten 

 in number, and red on the margins : the florets 

 are all hermaphrodite and tubular, longer than 

 the calyx^ and five in each : the feed is black, 

 pyramidal, and crown'd with down, which is 

 very flightly plumofe. 



The plant has a very bitter tafl:e. A deco6tion of 

 the roots operates as a violent emetic and cathar- 

 tic, and is fomeiimes taken by the lower clafs j 

 of people to cure the jaundice, dropfy, and ca- ( 

 cl;exy, but is a rough medicine, and ought to 

 be ufed v^ith caution. The great Boerhave made 

 ufc of an infufion of this plant to foment ulcers 

 and putrid fores. Tourmfort informs us, that 

 the Turks cure the fcurvy with it. An ounce of 

 the j'jice, or a dram of the cxtra<5l is a dofe. 



POLYGAMIA 



