HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Moist meadows and damp thickets from New Jersey north 

 and west. This is a pretty flower with graceful foliage, 2 to 

 5 feet high, dotting the New Jersey meadows in summer. 



Agrimony 

 Agrimonia. — Family, Rose. Color, yellow. The genus Agrimo- 

 nia may be known by a terminal long spike of small yellow 

 flowers whose calyx is tubular, 5-lobed, its throat and margin 

 being covered with hooked bristles. After the petals fall, this 

 calyx closes over the fruit, investing it with bristles, so that it 

 becomes a small bur. The fruit consists of 2 achenes, one in each 

 of a pair of carpels. Stamens, 5 to 15. Leaves are pinnate, com- 

 posed of several pairs of leaflets, with small ones intermediate, 

 and large, prominent stipules, all deeply serrate. 



The following species are found in the Eastern States from 

 Maine to Georgia: 



A. striata., — Flowers, in loose, narrow racemes, widely separated. 

 Leaflets, crenate, sessile, generally 5, with quite small interme- 

 diate leaflets. 1 to 5 feet high, more often 2 feet. Late summer. 



Moist woods. (See illustration, p. 175.) 



A. mollis. — Stem and leaves, softly hairy. Leaflets, mostly 7, 

 dull green, widely spreading. Fruit, top-shaped, broad above, 

 bristles borne on a flat or convex disk. i\ to 6 feet high. July 

 to September. 



Dry fields. 



A. parviflbra. — Spikes, many and rather closely flowered. Stem, 

 rough, 2 to 6 feet high. Leaflets, 9 to 17, thin, linear, sharply 

 toothed, crowded, with many smaller ones between of varying 

 size. July to October. 



Dry, sandy soil. 



A. rostellata. — Stem, slightly glandular from a tuberous root, 

 covered with scattered hairs. Leaflets, about 5, ovate or oblong, 

 crenately toothed, the intermediate ones very small. Stipules, 

 large, toothed. Flower - spike loosely covered. July to Sep- 

 tember. 



Dry, rocky woods. 



A. gryposepala. — Stem, very glandular, hairy. Leaflets, large, 

 thin, about 7, ovate or oblong, sharply serrate. 2 to 6 feet high. 

 June to August. 



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