78 COMMON AGRIMONY. 



to spirituous liquors. It has also been used 

 for dressing leather, and when just coming 

 into flower, it will dye wool of a fine nankeen 

 hue, but if gathered in the month of September, 

 it yields a deeper yellow. Most cattle refuse 

 it, but the sheep and goat will eat its foliage. 

 It grows on the borders of fields, on waste 

 places, and road-sides, flowering during June 

 and July. 



The Common Agrimony is our only British 

 species, but we have a few kinds in the garden, 

 w^hich have been introduced from other coun- 

 tries. The tall Hemp Agrimony, which is so 

 conspicuous a plant on moist lands, with large 

 clusters of flesh-coloured flowers, belongs to 

 another family of plants. The name of this 

 genus is a corruption of Argemone, which 

 was given by the Greeks to a plant supposed 

 to be eflicacious in curing cataract in the eye, 

 which they termed Argema. 



