COMMON AGnniO^Y.—Jpi7noma 

 eupatoria. 



Class DoDECANDRiA. Order Digyxia. Nat. Orel. Rosacea. 

 Rose Tribe. 



There are few of our wild plants which are 

 in more esteem with the village herbalist than 

 the Agrimony. Every gatherer of " simples '' 

 knows it well, and the author has often seen 

 the dried bundles of the plant hung up not only 

 by the cottage fireplace, but in shops, in several 

 of the towns of France, where it is exposed for 

 sale. It is still retained in the London Materia 

 Medica ; but though once esteemed an im- 

 portant medicine, it is seldom or never pre- 

 scribed by our modern physicians. The leaves 

 are slightly bitter and aromatic, and the flowers 

 have, while growing, an odour commonly said 

 to resemble that of the apricot, but Avhich might 

 rather be described as like that of the lemon. 

 They are of a yellow colour, growing in a long 

 spike, about a third part down the stem, which 

 is usually one or two feet high. The leaflets 

 are deeply notched at the edges, and have 

 intermediate small ones, cleft into three, four, 

 or five segments. The plant imparts a greenish 

 yellow colour to water, and a deep green tint 



