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iia Suaveolens, and the taste of the whole herb -is bitter. 

 It is a climber, and stretches a great way among the neigh- 

 bouring bushes. It is frequent about St. Thomas's, in the 

 East, and Manganeel in Jamaica. See the first species. 



18. Eupatorium Syriacum ; Syrian Hemp Agrimony. 

 Leaves opposite, subsessile, ternate ; stems straight, round, 

 four or five feet high, purplish, striated ; the branchlets come 

 out at a right angle almost over the whole stem ; flowers in 

 erect compound corymbs. It flowers in October ; the flavour 

 is unpleasant, and bitterish. Native of the West Indies. 

 See the first species. 



H>. Eiipatorium Trifidum. Leaves three-parted, the floral 

 undivided; stem climbing; corymbs from the upper 

 axils, and at the top, on long peduncles, compound; partial 

 peduncles and pedicels snbpubescent ; calix smooth, five- 

 flowered ; leaflets smooth, about ten, linear, the five outer 

 ones very short. Native of the Caribbee Islands. See the 

 first species. 



20. Eupatorium Trifoliatum ; Three-leaved Hemp Agri- 

 mony. Leaves in threes ; stem slender, cylindric, rigid, hairy 

 on the upper part ; flowers very small, as in the other species, 

 but they have not the calices so long, nor are they so exactly 

 disposed in umbels, but rather like the common Red Valerian. 

 Gronovius found it in Virginia; Vernon brought it from Mary- 

 land; Miller says that it grows in Pennsylvania; Krocker, 

 that it is found' in Silesia, and that it is like our common 

 European sort, except in having leaves in threes, and white 

 flowers. See the third species. 



21. Eupatorium Cannabinnm; Common Hemp Agrimony. 

 Leaves digitate ; stems three 01 four, and even six feet high, 

 hairy, reddish, branched ; leaflets three or five, lanceolate, 

 sharply serrate on the sides, entire on the base and top, 

 slightly hairy, the middle one much larger than the others ; 

 scales of the calix few, not more than ten, unequal, linear, 

 red on the edge, a little hairy ; flowers in thick umbels or 

 corymbs at the top of the stem or branches ; florets five, and 

 sometimes six together, of a pale red orpuqile colour; seeds 

 black, streaked, smooth, little more than a line in length ; 

 egret sessile, with simple rays, not three lines long ; the rays, 

 when viewed with a glass, are finely toothed, or shortly ciliate. 

 The stem lias a pleasant aromatic smell when cut. The 

 flowers have a strong smell ; and the who'c plant has a very 

 bitier tiistc. An ounce of the root in decoction is a full 

 dose, and is sometimes taken in the jaundice and dropsy ; 

 but il is a rough medicine, and ought to be used with caution. 

 Boerhaave gave an infusion of this plant to foment ulcers and 

 putrid sores ; and Touruefort informs us, that the Turks cure 

 the scurvy with it. Withering says, that an infusion of about 

 a handful of the leaves vomits and purges briskly ; and adds, 

 that the Dutch peasants make use of it in smaller doses, as 

 an alterative or purifier of the blood, and against the scurvy. 

 Meyrick affirms, that the fresh-gathered root boiled in ale 

 purges briskly, but without producing any bad effects; and 

 there are, says he, many instances of its having cured the drop- 

 sy. It is also a good wound-herb, whether bruised and applied 

 to the parts, or made into an ointment with hog's-lard. Goats 

 re the only cattle that appear to eat this plant. Found on the 

 banks both of running and stagnant waters, frequently in most 

 parts of Europe, flowering in July and August. In. Johnson's 

 edition of Gerarde, it is named Common Dutch Agrimony. 

 There is a variety, which is the seedling, and has oval-lanceo- 

 late leaves : it sometimes flowers in that state, but not often ; 

 the second year it bears leaves in threes. Professor Martyn 

 found this variety with simple leaves, but forgot the place. 

 Dillenius met with it afterwards, before you come to Lee, in 

 the road to Elthara ; and Mr. Woodward has since observed 



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it near Bungay in Suffolk. For the propagation and culture, 

 see the first species. 



*** Cahces eight-flowered. 



22. Eupatorium Coriaceum. Leaves elliptic, coriaceous, 

 smooth, toothed on the outside ; petioles an inch long, dilated 

 at the base; corymbs terminating, superdecompound ; com- 

 mon peduncle pubescent ; pedicels having minute scales scat- 

 tered on them towards the base ; calix seven-flowered; the 

 outer scales ovate, shorter, the inner longer, linear; egret 

 purplish, twice as long as the calix, almost simple. Supposed 

 to be a native of South America. See the first species. 



23. Eupatorium Cinereum. Calices seven-flowered; leaves 

 opposite, lanceolate, tomentose. This very much resembles 

 an Athanasia in its flowers and woody rigid stem. Thunberg 

 found it at the Cape of Good Hope. 



24. Eupatorium Purpureum ; Purple Hemp Agrimony. 

 Leaves in fours, scabrous, lanceolate-ovate, unequally serrate, 

 petioled, wrinkled ; stem cylindric, green, but purplish at 

 the base of the petioles ; corymb terminating; calices flesh- 

 coloured; corollas whitish ; antherse purple ; style very long. 

 It grows to the height of three feet or more, with a suffruti- 

 cose, upright, striated stem, but little branched. The leaves 

 are subsessile, and of a very dark green. The corymb of 

 flowers is fastigiate. The caiix has about eight flowers. The 

 receptacle is narrow, convex, scrobiculate, smooth. The 

 seeds are small, four-cornered, columnar, acuminate at the 

 bane, with the streaks and angles rugged with dots, and 

 whitish, the interstices smooth and livid ; egret capillary, 

 very minutely toothletted. Native of North America and 

 Cochin-china. See the third species. 



25. Eupatorium Diffusum. Leaves ovate, serrate, three- 

 nerved ; panicle very much branched and diffused. The. 

 whole plant is smooth ; panicle terminating, large, a foot 

 long; the last pedicels capillary; at all the ramifications 

 opposite narrow leaves becoming gradually smaller; calicine 

 leaflets lanceolate, the outer ones shorter ; corollets eight ; 

 egret white, the length of the calix. Native of South Ame- 

 rica. See the first species. 



26. Eupatorium Nervosum. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 

 attenuated, toothed, triple-nerved, smooth on both sides ; 

 calices many-flowered, Native of Jamaica. See the first 

 species. 



27. Eupatorium Rigidum. Leaves petioled, ovate, acute, 

 serrate-toothed, rigid, rugged underneath ; stem subherba- 

 ceous. Native of Jamaica. See the first species. 



28. Eupatorium Maculatum; Spotted Hemp Agrimony. 

 Leaves in fires, somewhat tomentose, lanceolate, equally 

 serrate, veined, petioled ; stem annual, about two feet and 

 a half high, purple, with many dark spots upon it ; leaves 

 rough, placed by threes towards the bottom of the stalk, but 

 near the top by pairs at each joint ; flowers purple, terminat- 

 ing in a sort of corymb, appearing in July and August, and 

 in warm seasons ripening the seeds in autumn ; egret simple 

 or capillary. Native of North America. See the third 

 specie*. 



29. Eupatorium Anriculatum. Leaves ovate, toothletted, 

 tomentose underneath; petioles eared ; stem climbing; flowers 

 in spikes. The stem is woody ; branches striated, tomentose, 

 hoary, becoming bald with age ; petioles tomentose, half an 

 inch in length, with a half-ovate tomentose earlet at the base 

 on each side, the flat floral-leaves having only a rudiment of 

 these ; spike compound, flexuose, axillary, and terminating ; 

 spikelets alternate ; flowers usually in pairs, distant; in the 

 axils of the branches of the spike single ; calix smooth, with 

 eight linear leaflets, of a brown ferruginous colour, and at the 

 base a few minute tomentose scales ; corollets seven ; style 



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