GENUS 22. 



ROSE FAMILY. 



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2. Agrimonia rostellata Wallr. Woodland Agrimony. Fig. 2268. 



Agrimonia parviflora DC. Prodr. 2: 587. 1821. Not 



Soland. 1789. 

 Agrimonia rostellata Wallr. Beitr. Bot. i : 42. 1842. 



Mostly about 2 high (i-5), minutely glandu- 

 lar, simple or delicately paniculately branched; 

 racemes filiform, short, loosely flowered. Roots 

 tuberous. Stem glabrous, or with scattered hairs 

 above ; leaflets thin, commonly 5, mostly oblong 

 or obovate-oblong and obtuse, crenate or dentate, 

 often cuneate, scarcely ciliate ; interposed leaf- 

 segments usually a small entire pair; stipules 

 small, entire and lanceolate, or ovate and laciniate; 

 flowers 2"-2\" broad, the buds subglobose, trun- 

 cate or nearly so ; fruit 2" high or less, speading 

 or nodding, hemispheric, the furrows shallow or 

 obsolete; disk very tumid, its rim unmargined, its 

 bristles short and weak, erect or ascending. 



In dry woods, Connecticut to Virginia, eastern Ten- 

 nessee, Missouri and Nebraska. Previously mistaken 

 for A. striata Michx. July-Sept. 



3. Agrimonia pumila Muhl. Small-fruited 

 Agrimony. Fig. 2269. 



Agrimonia pumila Muhl. Cat. 47. 1813. 



A. microcarpa Wallr. Beitr. Bot. i : 39. pi. I. f. 3. 1842. 



Small and slender, i-2 high, erect or assur- 

 gent, simple, or with a few branches above. Roots 

 tuberous; stem villous with spreading hairs below, 

 appressed-pubescent above; leaves often crowded 

 toward the base of the stem, frequently 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets 3-5, small, elliptic to obovate or cuneate, 

 obtuse or acute at the apex, often pilose above, 

 soft-pubescent and pale beneath ; interposed leaf- 

 segments, if any, a small pair; stipules small, the 

 lower ones lanceolate and entire, the upper 

 rounded on the outer side and laciniate ; racemes 

 very loosely flowered, flowers small ; fruit 2" long 

 or less, minutely glandular, hemispheric to turbi- 

 nate; disk flat; bristles few, ascending or erect. ' 



In dry soil, Pennsylvania and Maryland to Florida, 

 Kentucky and Texas. Aug. 



4. Agrimonia mollis (T. &G.) Britton. Soft 

 Agrimony. Fig. 2270. 



Agrimonia Eupatoria var. mollis 1. & G. Fl. N. A. I : 



431. 1840. 



?A. pubescens Wallr. Beitr. Bot. i : 45. 1842. 

 A. mollis Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 19: 221. 1892. 

 A, mollis Bicknellii Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 565. 



1897. 



Virgately branched, ii-6 tall. Roots tuberous. 

 Stem pubescent, or villous below, finely pubescent 

 or canescent above, as also the racemes. Leaves 

 thickish, dull green, veiny, pale and velvety-pubescent 

 beneath; leaflets mostly 7 (5-11), spreading, nar- 

 rowly oblong to obovate, obtuse or acutish at the 

 apex, I'renate to dentate ; interposed leaf-segments 

 oblong, mostly a single pair; stipules lanceolate to 

 ovate-oblong, cut-toothed or lobed; flowers 3"-4" 

 broad, the buds subglobose, obtuse; fruit 2" long or 

 more, ascending, spreading or loosely reflexed, 

 oblong, to bi.oadly turbinate; disk flat, or convex, 

 the ascending slender bristles nearly in a single row. 



Dry woods and thickets, Massachusetts to Michigan, 

 North Carolina and Kansas. July-Oct. 



