206 ROSACEiE. Sanguisorba. 



upward ; anthers small, roundish. Style a little longer than the calyx, slender : stigma large 

 and capitate, divided into numerous narrow segments. Achenium pyriform, contained in the 

 quadrangular, strongly winged and thickened calyx-tube. 



Wet meadows ; common. August - September. A neat and rather showy plant when in 

 flower. The root is slightly astringent and tonic. 



9. AGRIMONIA. Tourn. inst. t. 155; Endl. gen. 3368. agrimony. 



[A name corrupted from argemone, which was applied by the Greeks to a plant supposed to cure cataract (argema) in 



the eye.] 



Calyx turbinate, armed with hooked bristles on the upper part, contracted at the throat, with 

 2 bracteoles at the base ; the limb 5-cleft, closing in fruit. Stamens about 12, inserted 

 with the petals into the glandular margin of the disk in the throat of the calyx. Ovaries 2 : 

 styles terminal, exserted. Achenia 1-2, included in the indurated tube of the calyx. 

 Seed suspended. — Perennial herbs, with interruptedly pinnated leavfes and yellow flowers 

 in spicate racemes. Bracts 3-cleft. 



1. Agrimonia Eupatoria, Linn. Common Agrimony. 



Stem and petioles hairy ; leaflets 5-7, oblong-ovate, coarsely toothed ; stipules with a few 



coarse teeth ; calyx sulcate towards the base ; petals twice the length of the calyx. — Pursh, 



ft. \.p. 335 ; Engl. hot. t. 1335 ; Torr. fl. \.p. 473 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 189 ; DC. prodr. 



2. p. 587 ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 196 ; Beck, hot. p. 108 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 300 ; 



Torr. 4- Gr. fl. N. Am. 1. p. 431. 



var. parviflora : smoothed ; racemes more slender, with the flowers rather remote. Hook. 

 I. c. (excl. syn.); Torr. <J- Gr. I. c. A. striata, Michx.fl. \. p. 287. A. parviflora, DC. I. c. 



Stem 2-3 feet high, simple, sometimes very hairy, often flexuous. Leaflets 1-2 inches 

 long, with smaller ones intermixed, either nearly smooth or strigosely pubescent. Racemes 

 solitary or several, wand-like, 4-8 inches long ; the flowers on short erect pedicels. Calyx 

 with 2 small 3-toothed bracteoles at the base ; the upper part surrounded with hooked bristles. 

 Petals oval. Achenes often solitary, in the bottom of the hardened calyx-tube. 



Borders of woods, fields, etc. ; very common. The root of Agrimony, which is sweet- 

 scented, was formerly in repute as a tonic and deobstruent. The whole plant is sometimes 

 used for dyeing a nankeen color. 



