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

 Soft Agrimony. (Fig. 1960.) 



Agrimonia Eupatoria var. mollis T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 



431. 1840. 

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



Virgately branched, i%-6 tall. Roots tuber- 

 ous. Stem pubescent, or villous below, finely 

 pubescent or canescent above, as also the racemes. 

 Leaves thickish, dull green, veiny, pale and vel- 

 vety-pubescent beneath; leaflets mostly 7 (5-11), 

 spreading, narrowly oblong to obovate, obtuse or 

 acutish at the apex, crenate 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 broadly turbinate, disk 

 flat, or convex, the ascending slender bristles nearly 

 in a single row. 



Dry woods and thickets, Connecticut to Michigan, 

 North Carolina and Kansas. July-Oct. 



5. Agrimonia Brittoniana Bicknell. 

 Britton' s Agrimony. (Fig. 1961.) 



Agrimonia Brittoniana Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 

 23: 517. 1896. 



Robust, 2-6 tall, virgately branched. Roots 

 fibrous. Stem hirsute-pubescent with short 

 spreading brownish hairs, sub-appressed above; 

 leaves numerous; leaflets 7-9, rarely n, ob- 

 lique to the rachis, tetragonal-elliptic to rhom- 

 boid-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, deeply and 

 closely serrate; dull green, thickish, rugose, softly 

 pubescent beueath, glabrate above, their margins 

 finely scabrous-ciliolate; interposed leaf-segments 

 narrow, usually several pairs; stipules lanceolate, 

 acuminate, laciniate; racemes long, erect or as- 

 cending; flowers crowded, 3 // -5 // wide; fruit 3"- 

 4" long, reflexed, long-turbinate, deeply grooved; 

 unmargined; disk flat or concave; bristles often 

 purplish, short, crowded, inflexed and connivent 

 over the sepals. 



Along thickets and roadsides, Quebec to northern 

 New York, south along or near the mountains to West 

 Virginia. Also in the Rocky Mountains. June-Sept. 



6. Agrimonia parviflora Soland. Many-flowered Agrimony. 



Agrimonia parviflora Soland. in Ait. Hort. 



Kew. 2: 130. 1789. 



Virgately branched, 2-6 high, with long 

 racemes. Stem densely hirsute with coarse 

 brownish hairs, villous above; leaves crowded, 

 the lower often deflexed; leaflets 9-17, close 

 together, spreading, lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrate, rather 

 thin, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 

 especially on the veins, very glandular; in- 

 terposed leaf-segments mostly 4 or 5 crowded 

 pairs; stipules laciniate, acuminate; flowers 

 very numerous, 3 // -5 // broad; the buds 

 rounded-truncate; fruit loosely reflexed, 

 small, glandular, dilated-turbinate with a 

 proment elevated disk, bristles reflexed, 

 spreading and erect. 



In moist or dry soil, southern New York to 

 Michigan, south to Georgia and Mississippi. 

 Roots fibrous. July-Oct. 



(Fig. 1962.) 



