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SPECIES I.-EUPATORIUM CANNABINUM. Lhm. 



Plate DCCLXXXV. 



Rack Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. DCCCXCII. 

 Billol, FI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. N(t-33. 



Radical leaves oblanceolate, long-stalked ; stem-leaves opposite, 

 shortly stalked, mostly ternate-partite, with 3 elliptical acuminate 

 serrate segments ; those of the branches simple, ovate or lanceo- 

 late; all with distant short hairs, and sparingly sprinkled with 

 small inconspicuous resinous dots. Anthodes with about 5 florets, 

 in dense compound fastigiate corymbs. Pericline cylindrical ; 

 phyllaries unequal, imbricated, the external ones ovate or broadly 

 lanceolate, the inner ones oblong - strapshaped, sub - scarious. 

 Pappus white, longer than the achene. 



In damp places by the sides of rivers, and at the base of cliffs 

 on the sea-shore. Common, and generally distributed, extending 

 North to Eoss and Sutherlandshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Eootstock woody. Stems erect, puberulent, round, striate, 1 to 

 5 feet high, with short axillary branches. Stem-leaves divided to the 

 base into 3 (more rarely 5) segments, or in small plants undivided. 

 Pericline \ inch long, with the phyllaries scarious, and generally 

 purple towards the apex. Corolla with 5 short teeth, pale reddish- 

 lilac or nearly white. Anthers brown. Styles white, very long. 

 Achcnes prismatic, blackish, sprinkled with resinous dots, with 5 

 very prominent ribs ; hairs of the pappus dirty-white, denticulate, 

 caducous. Plant dull-green, slightly pubescent. 



Common Semp- Agrimony. 



French, Eupatoire d, Feuilles de Chanvre. German, Uaufartiyes Kunigundenkraut. 



The leaves of this plant are used in infusion as a tonic, and iu the fenny districts, 

 where it prevails, such medicines are very necessary. Country people lay the leaves 

 near bread, and they consider that they thus prevent it from becoming mouldy. It is 

 called Hemp-Agrimony from the resemblance of its leaves to those of liemp, and its 

 I being classed by the old herbalists with Agrimony under the general name of Eupato- 

 nwn, or, as Gerarde writes it, Ilepatorium. 



Sub-Order III.— LIGULIFLOK^. 



Florets all ligulate and perfect. 



Herbs, with the juice generally milky, the leaves and phyl- 



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