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■was at one time culled " riiilantliropos ;" according to Rome old writers, on account of 

 its benetioont and valuable ])ro|ierties ; others say that the name arose from the cir- 

 ciiTiistiiuce of the seeds clinging to the garments of passers by, as if desirous of accom- 

 jjanying them. Gerarde inclines to this interpretation of the name. The whole plant 

 yields a yellow dye ; when gathered in September, it produces a uaukeeu-colour ; later 

 in the year the dye is of a darker hue. 



SPECIES? IL— AGRIMONIA ODORATA. Mill. 

 Plate CCCCXVIII. 

 A. Eiipatoria, var. odorata, Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 198. 



Stem erect, usually branched. Leaves pinnate, Trith the alternate 

 pairs of pinnae much smaller than the others ; leaflets oblong-oval 

 or elliptical, inciso-crenate-scrrate, downy above and more densely 

 so beneath, where they are pilose on the veins and sprinkled with 

 small yellowish sessile glands. Stipules half-eordate-ovate, acu- 

 minated, incised. Fruit-calyx bellshaped-hemispherical, with 10 

 obsolete furrows not extending below the middle of the tube, 

 surmounted by a ring bearing several rows of hooked spines, con- 

 taining usually 2 achenes ; segments connivent, acuminated. 



In thickets and waste places. Rare. I have only seen it from 

 the Isle of Wight, Hants ; the neighbourhood of Tunbridge "Wells, 

 Kent ; Staunton Harold, Leicestershire ; Welchpool, IMontgomery- 

 shire ; and county Kerry ; but it occurs as far North as the Lake 

 district, and is probably often passed over, from its similarity to the 

 common species. 



England, Ireland. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 



This plant has quite the aspect of large specimens of A. Eupa- 

 toria, of which it ought probably to be considered merely a sub- 

 sp'cies. The stems are frequently 3 or 4 feet high, and the 

 leaflets 2 or 3 inches long. The racemes are more dense, the 

 flowers larger, the fruiting- calyces considerably larger and much 

 more widened out towards the mouth of the tube, with the furrows 

 rudimentary or even quite undistinguishable. When there is only 

 a single acliene, it is nearly globular ; but when there are 2, they 

 are compressed. The glands on the underside of the leaves exhale 

 a resinous odour. 



Fragrant Agrimony. 



French, Aigremoine Odorante. German, Wohlriecheiider Odermennig. 



GENUS IK—S ANGUISORBA. Linn. 



Elowers perfect, rarely polygamous. Calyx-tube turbinate, 

 with an annular contraction at the throat, 4-wiuged and indurated 



