EUPATORIUM. COMPOSITE. 32g 



Stem 2 -4 feet high, very smooth, finely striate ; the corymbose branches and pedicels 

 pubescent, l,,,,, 3 _ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ _ ^^ .^^^ ^^^^^^^ Coryl'w ddv 



spreading, very compound. Heads cylindrical, always 5-flowered. Scales greLth-whhe 



very pubescent. Pappus longer than the flower. greenish-white, 



Borders of woods, in dry bushy places and on rocky hill-sides. August - September Not 



rare, except m the western part of the State. -^epiemDer. JNot 



6. EUPATORIUM PEKroLiATUM, Liun. Boueset or Thoroughwort. 



Leaves connate-perfoliate, lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, crenate-serrate, rugose pubescent 

 underneath; heads commonly 10.flowered._Z.„«. sp. 2. p. 838 ; Pursh Jl Z' lie Z 

 sk. 2. p 302; Bigel. med. 60, 1. p. 328. . 2, aJ fl. Lt. p.'sST; Rff.JdH'] f 

 Beck, hot. p. 198 ; DarUngt. fl. Cest. p. 451 ; Hook. fl.Bor.-Am 1 l 305 7)r r, ' 

 5. p. 151 ; Torr. ^ Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 88. E. connlm, McL /s / ^9 ' ' 



L^Z ri' inc'heVr' '"'t T'' ^°'''' ^"'='^' ^'"'^'^ '-'''' ^ -°°">^ or hr;ry pubescence. 

 Leaves 4 - 8 mches long, for the most part perfectly united at their bases, but sometimes 



contraced and on y slightly connate, decussate, divaricate; the veinlets reti ula ed a^pTo 



mment underneath, copiously sprinkled with resinous dots. Corymb lar.e fast l.o v. 



compound. Scales of the involucre ,2-15, very pubescent, glLula ' mn r leaT 



z:^'::^r-''- ^'^— '---^^- Achen. gianduh... Pappus%h:::; 



Low swampy grounds ; very common throughout the State. July - September A nnn„, 

 as weU as oflicmal medicine It is a tonic, diaphoretic, emetic or'aperieC'l-dtftt 

 Z'a ?, """" " °^ administering it ,s in the form of infusion ; but sometim s th 



TspZ:;:"::;. ''' "^'^"- ''' '''''^"''' ''-"-' ^"-'^' ' ^■' -^ "^-^ ^ ^-^^. 



i 3. Heads 8 ~ SOflowered : scales of (he campanulale involucre 8 - 20 nearlv eaual anrl i„ n ■ 1 



7. EUPATORIUM AGERAToiDEs, Linu.f. White Suakeroot 



ngniiy cordate acuminate, triply nerved, membranaceous, coarsely and sharnlv .nrr-.. 



altissimum, Linn. sp. 2. p. 839. ^ " ^S'^ratum 



[Flora.] ^2 



