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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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keeled, three-nerved, attenuated at the edge, the outer ones 

 smaller; floscules little longer than the calix ; seeds black; 

 down snorter than the corolla. Native of New Granada. 

 See the first species. 



46. Eupatorium Stoechadifolium ; Cotton-weed Eupatorium. 

 Tomentosc : leaves petioled, linear, crenate, hoary under- 

 neath ; panicle terminating; stein upright, roundish, covered 

 with a soft, thick, white down. No stipules : panicles up- 

 right, somewhat like corymbs, conglomerate ; peduncles op- 

 posite, variously divided, woolly; bractes none, except a pair 

 of leaves, smaller than the rest at the base of each panicle ; 

 flowers purple; calix cylindric, woolly at the base; scale 

 sharp, with a green line along them, membranaceous and 

 ciliate about the edge, the inner ones somewhat tongue- 

 shaped, the outer lanceolate and smaller ; floscules very 

 numerous, the length of the calix, a little swelling, five-sided; 

 segments from erect spreading, sharpish, quite entire, scarcely 

 pubescent; antheroe included ; style scarcely half-cleft; down 

 shorter than the corolla, yellowish, scabrous. Native of New 

 Granada. See the first species. 



47. Eupatorium Microphyllum ; Small-leaved Hemp Agri- 

 mony.. Leaves triangular-ovate, with nine notches, tomentose 

 and veined underneath ; panicle conglomerate, terminating ; 

 peduncle elongated ; stem undershmbby, woody, ascending, 

 a little branched, leafy, round, subhirsute ; petioles the length 

 of the leaves, hairy ; no stipules ; panicle on a long peduncle, 

 resembling a corymb ; pedicels variously divided, rough, 

 haired ; bractes two at the first ramification of the panicle, 

 usually lanceolate, but sometimes of the same form with the 

 leaves; flowers purple, fewer than in the foregoing; calix 

 subcylindric, scarcely pubescent at the base ; all the scales 

 lanceolate, sharp, nerved, attenuated and ciliate at the edge, 

 the outer ones smaller and thicker ; floscules scarcely the 

 length of the calix, swelling at top, not angular; segments 

 from erect spreading, bluntish, entire, closely pubescent on 

 the outside; antherte included; style scarcely half-cleft; 

 seeds brown ; egret almost the length of the corolla, hardly 

 rugged when viewed through a glass. The flowers resemble 

 those of the preceding in structure, but differ in several cha- 

 racters. Native of New Granada. See the first species. 



48. Eupatorium Squarrosum. Leaves subcordate, ovate- 

 acute, serrate; calices squarrose; stems a fathom in height, 

 round, subtomentose, with opposite branches ; flowers in ra- 

 cemes, on axillary three-flowered peduncles; calix cylindric, 

 with many lanceolate-acute, striated leaflets, the outer ones 

 reflex at the tip, and containing about twenty-four florets ; 

 corolla twice as long as the calix ; florets greenish yellow, 

 with short, ovate-acute, patulous segments; seeds small, ob- 

 long, striated, with very small hairs ; egret sessile, obscurely 

 feathered, shorter than the corolla. Native of Mexico. See 

 the first species. 



49. Eupatorium Sinuatum. Leaves ovate, sinuate, hairy, 

 alternate ; calices eight-flowered, or thereabouts ; stem suffru- 

 ticose, three feet high, erect, hispid ; leaves toothletted ; 

 flowers purplish, in terminating panicles ; receptacle con- 

 cave. Native of the island of Mozambique. 



Besides the species above enumerated, Mr. Miller describes 

 five sorts which were sent to him from Vera Cruz by Dr. 

 Houston, viz. 



1. Eupatorium Fruticosum ; with oblong cordate leaves; 

 flowers in panicles ; stem shrubby, climbing. It rises to the 

 height of ten or twelve feet; the leaves are opposite, and 

 about three inches long, and an inch and a half broad, of a 

 lucid green ; the panicles are long and branching, and pro- 

 ceed from the side of the stalks ; the flowers are white. 



2. Eupatorium Betonicifolium ; with oblong, blunt, crenate, 



smooth leaves, and simple calices. It rises with an upright 

 stem nearly two feet high, being towards the bottom leaves of 

 a thick substance; from the upper part, which is naked, the 

 flowers come out in a thick panicle, they are of a blue colour, 

 and appear late in autumn; the root is biennial. 



3. Eupatorium Morifolium ; with heart-shaped serrate leaves, 

 and an upright tree-like stem. It rises twelve or fourteen feet 

 high, sending out many channelled branches, covered with a 

 brown bark ; leaves as large as those of the Mulberry-tree, of 

 a light green colour, opposite, on petioles near two inches 

 long. The branches are terminated by four or five peduncles, 

 which come out opposite from the joints, (there is also an odd 

 one at the end,) these sustain branching panicles of white 

 flowers, forming a long, loose, pyramidal thyrse, without any 

 leaves intermixed, and making a fine appearance. 



4. Eupatorium Punctatum; with ovate-petioled entire 

 leaves; stem shrubby, branching; calices simple. The stems 

 are near five feet high, dividing into many slender branches, 

 the joints of which are three or four inches asunder; at each 

 of these is a pair of leaves about three-quarters of an inch 

 long and half an inch broad, having several black spots on 

 their surface, and upon long slender footstalks; the branches 

 are horizontal, terminated by small bunches of white flowers ; 

 the calices are composed of seven narrow lanceolate leaflets, 

 divided to the bottom. 



5. Eupatorium Paniculatum; with heart-shaped, wiinkled, 

 crenate leaves, and a panicled stem. It rises with an upright 

 branching stem three feet high, sending out two side-branches 

 from the joint, almost the whole length ; these are terminated 

 by loose spikes of red flowers, as is also the principal stem ; the 

 leaves are rough, sessile, of a light green, and a little hoary. 



6. Eupatorium Conyzoides, may probably be the same with 

 Kuhnia Conyzoides of Linneus. 



Euphorbia; a genus of the class Dodecandria, order Tri- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth one-leafed, 

 inflated, somewhat coloured, four-toothed at the mouth, and 

 in some few five-toothed, permanent. Corolla: petals four, 

 in some few five, turbinate, gibbous, thick, truncate, unequal 

 in situation, alternate with the teeth of the calix, with their 

 claws placed on the margin of the calix, permanent. Sta- 

 mina : filamenta several, twelve or more, filiform, jointed, 

 inserted into the receptacle, longer than the corolla, breaking- 

 forth at different times; anthertc twin, roundish. Pistil: 

 germen roundish, three-sided, pedicelled ; styles three, two- 

 cleft; stigmas obtuse. Pericarp: capsule roundish, tricoc- 

 cous, three-celled, starting open elastically. Seeds: solitary, 

 roundish. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Corolla: four or five- 

 petalled, placed on the calix. Calix: one-leafed, bellying; 



capsule tricoccous. This genus consists of milky plants, 



which are mostly herbaceous ; several however are shrubby, 

 upright, for the most part very few of them creeping, some 

 leafless, but most of them leafy ; stems angular, or tubercled, 

 or more frequently cylindric or columnar, unarmed, or, in the 

 angular sorts, resembling the upright Cactuses, and armed 

 with prickles, which are either solitary or in pairs, placed in 

 a single row on the top of tne ridges ; such as have leaves 

 have them simple, most frequently alternate and naked ; in 

 some sorts, however, they are opposite, and are then com- 

 monly attended with stipules, and in a few they are placed 

 by threes in whorls ; peduncles in the leafless sorts naked, 

 bearing from one to three flowers, in the leafy ones axillary, 

 but more frequently from two to five or more, in a terminat- 

 ing umbel, each sometimes in a many-flowered head, but 

 more frequently dichotomous, trichotomous, or even tetracho- 

 tomous, with single flowers, between the divisions, at the base 

 and in the forkings having bractes, in number the same with 



