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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL: 



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or six feet. At each joint two small side-branches come out, 

 terminated by clusters of white flowers, so that the stalks seem 

 covered with them most part of their length ; but as thsee 

 come out late in the season, unless the summer prove warm, 

 this plant does not flower well in England. Native of Virgi- 

 nia and Carolina ; and also, it is supposed, of the East Indies. 

 This species is sometimes killed by severe weather in our 

 climate, when left uncovered. When the stalks therefore 

 decay in autumn, the ground should be covered with some old 

 tanners' bark. It multiplies very fast by its creeping roots, 

 which may be parted every other year. For further particu- 

 lars respecting its propagation and culture, see the third 

 species. 



5. Eupatorium Volubile. Leaves cordate-ovate, crenate, 

 acute; lobes parallel ; stem twining; branches and petioles 

 villose. This differs from the preceding, in having the 

 branches, petioles, nerves of the leaves, underneath, and pe- 

 duncles villose, the leaves less attenuated, with the lobes not 

 divaricated, but parallel, the egret purplish, but not hoary. 

 There is another Eupatorium from Madagascar, exactly like 

 this, except that it is entirely smooth. Native of the East 

 Indies. See the first species. 



6. Eupatorium Denticulatum. Leaves cordate, rugged, 

 minutely toothletted; branches angular; stem climbing. The 

 branches have five acute angles, standing ; leaves petioled, 

 two inches long, bluntish, paler underneath, very finely and 

 thinly haired, sometimes not toothed ; corymbs terminating 

 the branches and branchlets; pedicels umbelled, filiform, 

 rugged, angular ; calix four-leaved ; leaflets linear, equal, 

 shorter than the egret, which is purple. Native of Surinam. 

 See the first species. 



7. Eupatorium Amarum. Leaves cordate-ovate, acumi- 

 nate, quite entire, subtomentose underneath ; flowers corymb- 

 ed; stem climbing; branches the thickness of a swan's quill, 

 smooth, striated ; branchlets axillary, a hand in length, flower- 

 bearing. The leaves are petioled, three inches in length and 

 breadth, smooth, and nerved above, beneath slightly tomen- 

 tose, with stellate hairs, visible only wilh a magnifier, and 

 having veins standing out ; those on the branchlets are an 

 inch long, and become gradually smaller towards the top; 

 corymbs from the extreme axils of the leaves on the branch- 

 lets, and from the end; seeds four, angular; egret longer 

 than the calix, purplish. Found in the Caribbee islands by 

 Martfelt, and in Surinam by Rolander. See the first species. 



8. Eupatorium Houston!; Houston's Hemp Agrimony. Stem 

 twining; leaves ovate, quite entire; stalks slender, twining, 

 eight or ten feet, high, sending out small opposite branches at 

 most of the upper joints; lower leaves heart-shaped, ending 

 in acute points; upper almost triangular, smooth, and of a 

 lucid green. The upper part of the stalks has long branch- 

 ing stalks of white flowers, which are small and sessile. 

 Imported from Jamaica. See the first species. 



** Calices Jive-flowered. 



9. Eupatorium Zeylanicum ; Ceylon Hemp Agrimony. 

 Leaves ovate, hastate, petioled, toothed ; they are alternate, 

 narrower at the base, with small rounded ears bent in, green, 

 and smooth on the upper surface, tomentose and veined on 

 the lower, like Sage. The corymbs of flowers resemble 

 those of the Eupatoriums : the fructifications, however, want 

 to be examined more critically. Native of Ceylon. See the 

 first species. 



10. Eupatorium Sessilifolium; Sessile-leaved Hemp Agri- 

 mony. Leaves sessile, stem-clasping, distinct, lanceolate ; 

 steins slender, round, smooth. The leaves are in pairs, at two 

 inches' distance, sessile, two inches long, mucronate, resem- 

 bling those of Mint, slightly toothed on the edge; flowers 



terminating, corymbed, in many little heads, white, slender. 

 It flowers in September and October. Native of Virginia. 

 See the third species. 



11. Eupatorium Album ; White Hemp Agrimony. Leaves 

 lanceolate-serrate; leaflets of the calix lanceolate, scariose at 

 the end, and coloured. The stem is erect, streaked, scarcely 

 pubescent; leaves opposite, subsessile, almost naked; corymb 

 terminating, composed of alternate subdivided branchletg, 

 fastigiate, and white; down simple. Found in Pennsylvania 

 by Bartram, and by Thunberg in Japan. See the third 

 species. 



12. Eupatorium Chinense ; Chinese Hemp Agrimony. 

 Leaves ovate, petioled, serrate ; stem somewhat angular, 

 flexuose, erect, smooth, but little branched, a foot high or 

 more. The leaves are opposite, sharp, entire at the base, 

 pale underneath, nerved, smooth, spreading, an inch and more 

 in length ; flowers in a fastigiate and roundish panicle. Na- 

 tive of China and Japan. 



13. Eupatorium Japonicum ; Japanese Hemp Agrimony. 

 Leaves undivided, and three-lobed, serrate. The stem is 

 scabrous, round, streaked, erect, branched, two feet and up- 

 wards in height ; branches alternate, panicled, from erect 

 patulous like the stem; leaves opposite, petioled, the lower 

 three-lobed, the upper undivided, ovate, sharp, unequally 

 serrate, sometimes entire, paler underneath, nerved, scabrous, 

 a finger's length, the upper ones gradually less; petioles half 

 an inch in length ; flowers on the branches and branchlets 

 terminating, in ovate panicles, on very short peduncles. Na- 

 tive of Japan. 



14. Eupatorium Rotundifolium ; Round-leaved Hemp Agri- 

 mony. Leaves sessile, distinct, roundish-cordate. It rises 

 with upright stalks about a foot high ; the joints are near 

 each other, and at every joint is a pair of leaves, of a light 

 green colour, and serrate. The flowers are produced in small 

 loose panicles at the tops of the stalks ; they are white, and 

 have two small leaves immediately under them. The flowers 

 appear at the end of June; but the seeds seldom ripen in 

 England. Native of New England and Virginia. See the 

 third species. 



15. Eupatorium Stipulaceum. Leaves hastate, acute at 

 both ends, three-nerved, stipuled ; flowers corymbed ; stem 

 climbing. The stem is very smooth, and very finely streaked ; 

 the leaves an inch and a half or more in length, mucronate, 

 acuminate at the base, veined very smooth above, beneath 

 appearing very slightly villose with a magnifier ; and the lobes 

 ovate, acute, oblique behind, having frequently one or two 

 minute teeth. Native of Brazil. For the propagation and 

 culture, see the first species. 



16. Eupatorium Altissimum ; Tall Hemp Agrimony. 

 Leaves lanceolate, nerved, the lower ones a little serrate on 

 the outmost part; stem nndershrubby. This rises with a 

 single, upright, green stalk, about four feet high; at each 

 joint are four leaves in whorls, they are six inches long, and 

 two inches broad in the middle, lessening to both ends, ter- 

 minating in acute points, rough, serrate, and on short foot- 

 stalks ; the stem is terminated by a close corymb of purple 

 flowers, appearing in July, and continuing till September. 

 Native of North America. See the third species. 



17. Eupatorium Hastatum ; Hastate-leaved Hemp Agri- 

 mony. Leaves cordate-hastate, somewhat toothed, naked; 

 stem twining; flowers in spikes. Stem shrubby, branched, 

 striated, pubescent ; leaves petioled, opposite, petioles also 

 pubescent; racemes axillary, opposite; flowers spiked, in 

 whorls, four in a whorl, white ; caiix four leaved; leaflets 

 lanceolate-ovate, convex ; corollets four: stamina extremely 

 minute; style longer. The flowers small like those of Caca- 



