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the banks of the Black Warrior river at Tuscaloosa, Ala., it was first dis- 

 covered, and upon the specimen sent to him, Dr. Gray formed a new genus 

 of the Rose family, it being quite distinct in characteristics from even those 

 members to which it was most closely related. But in naming the plant 

 and dedicating it to Rev. R. U. Nevius, Dr. Ciray was unfortunately in 

 error. It is, in fact, only recently that it has been made known by Mr. 

 Charles Louis Pollard that it was really first found by Professor \V. S. 

 Wymans, who, although in the company of Mr. Nevius on the eventful oc- 

 casion, proceeded him some distance and made the discovery when quite 

 alone. The illustration shows it as it occurs in cultivation at Biltmore where 

 indeed it is very hardy. Its flower-clusters are beautiful, and most effective 

 are its long white or creamy-white stamens. 



TALL HAIRY AGRinONY. 



Ag7-imbnia hirsiita . 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Rose. Orangc-yelloiv. Like apricots. North Carolina June- August. 



iiorthivard. 



Flozvers: small ; perfect ; regular, growing closely in slender, hairy racemes. 

 Calyx : obconic, with five ])ointed lobes, covered with hooked bristles. Petals: 

 five, rounded. Stamens : five to fifteen. Fruit : top-shaped ; bristly. Leaves : 

 large, with long, hairy petioles and two leaf-like stipules at their bases ; com- 

 pound ; odd-pinnate. Leaflets: five to seven, oblong, or elliptical; sessile and 

 coarsely serrate ; bright green above; margins, and veins underneath ciliate, thin ; 

 smaller leaflets occurring between the pairs. Ste?n : two to five feet high, hairy. 



This, the most common of our native species of agrimony, is one of the 

 homely, old time flowers which seem to exhale certain scenes and associa- 

 tions. Our grandmothers knew its haunts amid woods and thickets and 

 sought it to gather the leaves that they might make them into a tea-like 

 beverage, or at least lengthen out the orthodox supply which they had in 

 store. 



For a long time it was thought by our botanists that a species of Lin- 

 n^us, Agrimonia Eupatoria, embraced many of the forms of this genus 

 which occur in eastern America. This, however, was an error in con- 

 ception which has since been rectified. That species is now known as being 

 not indigenous to America. 



A. incisa differs from other American members of the genus in having 

 incised leaflets with few large and salient teeth. In addition to the forms 

 mentioned there is also one with elongated racemes of flowers, pubescent 

 stems and tuberous roots which is known as Agrimonia pumila, or the small- 

 fruited agrimony. 



Still another species with as many as from nine to twenty-three leaflets 

 and unusually small flowers and fruit is called small-flowered agrimony, 

 Agrimonia parviflor^, 



