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AGRIMONIA EUPATORIA. 



Common Agrimony. 



Class XI. DoDECANDRiA. — Order II. Digyisia. 



Nat. Old. RosACEJE. 



Gen. Char. Calyx inferior, five-cleft, covered with hooked 

 bristles. Peto/s fiAC, inserted upon the calyx. Fruit of 

 two, small, indehiscent capsules, m\es,iQ(\. by the hardened 

 calyx. 



Spec. Char. Cauline leaves pinnate, with oblong, obtuse 

 leaflets ; terminal leaflet on a footstalk. Petals twice 

 as long as the calyx. 



SYNON YMES. 



Greek imrara^/flv. Dioscorides. 



rEupatorium veterum sive Agrimonia. Bauhin Pinax, 321 ; 

 . 3 Rati Syn. 202. 



y Agrimonia Officinamm. Tournefort Inst. 301. 



^Agrimonia Eupatoria. Lin. Sp. PI. 643. 

 French . . - . Aigremoine ; Souheirette. 

 Italian .... Agrimonia ; Eupatorio de' Greci. 



^ ; Agrimonia ; Agrimonia Oficinal. 



Portuguese ' 



German . . . Odermennig ; Ackermennig. 



Dutch Agrimonie ; Lever-kruid. 



Description. — The root is perennial, thick, fibrous,, horizon- 

 tal^ knotted*, and covered with a dark coloured bark, beneath 

 which there is a tissue of a fine red colour. The stem rises to the 

 height of two or three feet, erect, cylindrical, rather rough, 

 hairy, and generally simple. The leaves are alternate, inter- 

 ruptedly pinnate ; the large leaflets deeply serrate ; the interme- 



* Eacli separate knot indicates a year's growth. 



