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EUP 



THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL: 



EUP 



longer by half than the corollet ; egret a little longer than 

 the calix, white, when magnified serrate. Annual .Native of 

 Brazil, Guiana, Jamaica, &c. See the first species. 



30. Eupatorium Molle, Leaves petioled, cordate, acnte, 

 subserrate, pubescent ; stem herbaceous, tomentose. Native 

 of Jamaica, Guiana, &c. See the first species. 



31. Eupatorium Villosum. Leaves opposite, decussated, 

 ovate, subserrate, beneath villose- tomentose; caliccs eight 

 to fifteen flowered ; stem shrubby ; branches softly villose ; 

 corymbs terminating, decompound ; peduncles and pediceb 

 villose-tomentose; at the ramifications short bristle-shaped 

 leaves ; calicine leaflets linear, pubescent ; corollets small, as 

 far as sixteen; seeds the length of the calix, with a dirty- 

 coloured egret, longer than the calix. Native of Jamaica 

 and St. Domingo. See the first species. 



32. Eupatorium Cordifolium. Leaves cordate, serrate, 

 tomentose, hirsute underneath ; petioles very short ; corymbs 

 subsessile ; calices squarrose ; stem shrubby. Native of 

 Jamaica. See the first species. 



33. Eupatorium Montanum. Leaves cordate, acute, 

 loothletted, petioled, rugged, hirsute underneath ; corymbs 

 much spreading ; stem shrubby. Native of Jamaica. See 

 the first species. 



34. Eupatorium Canescens. Hoary; leaves ovate, sub- 

 lobed and entire, underneath very soft and three-nerved ; 

 corymbs simple. This is a branching shrub, the branches 

 having an ash-coloured bark ; branchlets opposite, brachiate, 

 spreading, hoary, and very soft, as are also the tops of the 

 branches ; corymbs from the ends of the branches and 

 branchlets, few-flowered ; calix cylindrical, subvillose; leaf- 

 lets linear, obtuse, with pale streaks, the outer ones shorter; 

 florets ten ; seed black, when magnified appearing angular, 

 with minute villose hairs scattered over it. Observed in the 

 island of Santa Cruz. See the first species. 



35. Eupatorium Scabrum. Villose : leaves opposite, peti- 

 oled, ovate, mostly entire, wrinkled, scabrous on the upper 

 surface. The stem seems to be undershrubby ; it is upright, 

 branched, roundish, streaked, villose-scabrous, leafy, many- 

 flowered: branchlets opposite, angular, bearing flowers at 

 the end. No stipules; panicles terminating, upright, rough 

 with hairs, many-flowered, contracted; peduncles opposite; 

 pedicels mostly alternate; bractes lanceolate, rough with 

 hairs ; flowers upright ; calix cylindric, smooth ; scales ob- 

 long, obtuse, three-nerved, somewhat callous at the tip ; 

 the outer ones shorter and broader ; florets seven or eight, 

 scarcely longer than the calix, five-sided; seeds black, with 

 a down, scarcely the length of the corolla, serrate, hardly 

 feathered, spreading. Gathered by Mutis in New Granada. 

 See the first species. 



** Calices with fifteen or more Floscules. 



36. Eupatorium Perfoliatum ; Perfoliate Hemp Agrimony. 

 Leaves connate, perfoliate, tomentose ; stems annual, from two 

 to three feet high, hairy. The upper part of the stalk divides 

 into many slender peduncles, each sustaining a close cluster 

 of white flowers, coming out in July. The seeds, in warm 

 seasons, will sometimes ripen in England. Native of North 

 America. See the third species. 



37. Eupatorium Coslestinum ; Blue-fiowered Hemp Agri- 

 mony. Leaves cordate-ovate, obtusely serrate, petioled ; 

 calices many-flowered. This has a creeping root, which 

 spreads and multiplies very fast. The stalks rise about two 

 feet high. The flowers are produced at the top of the stalks 

 in a sort of corymb, and are of a fine blue colour. Native of 

 Maryland. See the third species. 



38. Eupatorium Aromaticum ; Aromatic Hemp Agrimony. 

 Leaves ovate, obtusely serrate, petioled, three-nerved; calices 



simple; stem round, four feet high, strict, brachiate, 

 the appearance of Scutellaria. Leaves somewhat wrinkled ; 

 racemes terminating ; flowers twice the length of the calix, 

 snow-white, containing from eighteen to twenty-eight florets, 

 the styles scarcely longer than the floret ; in this circumstance 

 it differs from the other species, and in having the calix not 

 imbricate, but the leaflets almost equal. Native of Virginia. 

 See the third species. 



39. Eupatorium Macrophyllum ; Large-leaved Hemp Ar/ri- 

 mony. Leaves heart-shaped, three-nerved, serrate underneath, 

 pubescent ; stem pubescent, the thickness of a swan's quill, 

 striated ; petioles from two to three inches in length ; corymbs 

 terminating, and axillary, peduncled, decompound, close ; calix 

 loosely imbricate; the leaflets lanceolate, pale green, very finely 

 streaked. Native of the Caribbee islands. See the first 

 species-. 



40. Eupatorium Ageratoides. Leaves ovate, serrate, peti- 

 oled ; stem smooth, annual, five or six feet high, towards 

 the top putting out side-branches. At the ends of the shoots 

 the flowers are produced in large tufts, and are of a pure 

 white; they appear in October. Native of North America. 

 See the third species. 



41. Eupatorium Conyzoides. Leaves ovate, attenuated, 

 sharply serrate, three-nerved, smooth above ; calices closely 

 imbricate ; branches striated, pubescent ; corymb terminating, 

 almost simple, few-flowered ; partial peduncles three-flowered; 

 pedicels one-flowered. Supposed to be a native of South 

 America. See the first species. 



42. Eupatorium Odoratum; Sweet-scented Hemp Agri- 

 mony. Leaves deltoid, toothed at bottom, tomentose under- 

 neath ; calices many-flowered ; stem a fathom in height, 

 shrubby, branched, even ; flowers terminating, subcorymbed, 

 white; seeds linear, slightly compressed, with a capillary 

 egret. This weakly shrubby plant is generally observed to 

 grow among other bushes, where it frequently casts its long, 

 slender, flexile, opposite branches to a moderate distance. 

 The flowers are sometimes impregnated with a smell resem- 

 bling that of the European Meadow-sweet. It flowers in 

 August and September, and is very common in the lower hills 

 of Jamaica. See the first species. 



43. Eupatorium Triplinerve. Leaves lanceolate, triple- 

 nerved, quite entire, smooth ; stem round, smooth, very finely 

 streaked; branches spreading, flower-bearing; panicle ter- 

 minating, subtrichotomous ; partial peduncles scarcely pubes- 

 cent; the last pedicels an inch long, filiform, with a minute 

 leaf at the base of each ; calix many-leaved ; leaflets linear, 

 nearly equal, acute, villose, and purplish at the tip ; the out- 

 most shorter ; florets more than twenty, purple at the top. 

 From the island of Santa Cruz. See the first species. 



44. Eupatorium Ivsefolium. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 

 three-nerved, subserrate; calices squarrose, many-flowered; 

 stem subherbaceons, two feet high, erect, strict, branched, 

 hispid; branches simple, elongated ; peduncles terminating, 

 and in the axils of the upper leaves opposite, filiform, mostly 

 trichotomous, but the last one-flowered ; flowers small, blue. 

 Common in Jamaica. See the first species. 



45. Eupatorium Urticeefolium ; Nettle-leaved Hemp Agri- 

 mony. Hispid : leaves petioled, cordate, gash-serrate ; pa- 

 nicle terminating ; calices many-flowered, awl-shaped, some- 

 what pungent. This plant appears very much like a Nettle at 

 first sight, but the leaves are three-nerved at the base ; stem 

 upright, branched, round, streaked, hairy, leafy ; petioles 

 scarcely the length of the leaves, angular, equal. No sti- 

 pules ; panicle like a cyme, upright, hairy ; pedicels alter- 

 nate or crowded ; bractes linear, few ; flowers upright, pal 

 purple ; calix subcylindric, patulous, pubescent ; scales 



