150 ROSACE*. [Agrimonia. 



towards the base of the common hairy petiole, and alternate, the rest opposite or 

 nearly so, all nearly or quite glabrous above, mostly a little hairy beneath, and 

 chiefly along the midrib, with shining appvessed pubescence. Flowers sessile, in 

 dense, globose, solitaiy, terminal heads, with occasional sessile and lateral ones, 

 from the size of a pea to that of a musket-ball, the fertile and barren (and not 

 unfrequently, as I find, hermaphrodite) flowers intermixed on some heads, whilst 

 others consist wholly of one or other, those containing the former being generally 

 smaller. Bracts 3 or 4 beneath each flower, orate, brownish white, concave, 

 membranous and very hairy, sometimes coloured like the perianth, and unequal. 

 Perianth in flowers of both sexes in 4 deep, broadly ovate, bluntish 3-ribbed seg- 

 ments, green, with broad white margins more or less tinged with purple, and tip- 

 ped with a minute fascicle of white pellucid hairs, the tube very short, minute, 

 hairy, contracted at the mouth into an annular shape, and with 4 prominent angles, 

 most conspicuous in the fertile flower : the perianth of the fertile flowers is 

 smaller and more deeply coloured with green and purple than the barren. Sta- 

 mens inserted on the contracted summit of the tube, very numerous, longer than 

 the perianth, with slender white flaccid and pendant_/ZZamereis ,- anthers of 2 reni- 

 form lobes, pale yellow or reddish, bursting laterally. Styles 1 or 2 (in the speci- 

 mens before me as often 1 as 2), passing through an annular contraction at the 

 mouth of the tube, greenish ; stigmas a tuft of radiating, pellucid, bright crimson 

 filaments, covered with glandular points, very beautiful. 



I find the barren flowers very commonly furnished with an evident pistil, but 

 the stigma is smaller, less tufted, and probably incapable of performing its func- 

 tions. 



[3. P. muricatum, Spach. Aliwicated Salad Burnet. " Calyx 

 of the fruit sessile glabrous wrinkled with pits whose margins are 

 muricated, angles crested, stem somewhat angular." — Br. Fl. p. 

 127. 



" Dry calcareous soil. M. July. l(..''Sr. Fl. 



Above the Culver clifis, in several places, on both sides of a hedge which runs 

 East and West along the top of the hill ; not however in the ancient turf of the 

 down, but in land that had formerly been under the plough, though some of it, 

 especially North of the hedge, not recently ; W. Borrer, Esq., in litt. 



" Very similar to the last, of which it was formerly considered a variety, and 

 from which it is chiefly distinguishable by the fructiferous calyx, and by the 

 much larger /ruii." — Br. Fl. — Eilrs^ 



V. Ageimonia, Linn. Agrimony. 



" Calyx turbinate, at length hardened, covered with hooked 

 bristles, 5-cleft. Petals 5, inserted upon the calyx. Stamens 7 — 

 20. Achenes 2." — Br. Fl. 



1. A. Eupatoria, L. Common Agrimony. " Cauline leaves 

 interruptedly pinnate softly villous underneath, leaflets 7 — 9 

 rounded at the base with 6 — 8 coarse serratures on each side, ter- 

 minal one stallced, spikes elongated interrupted, calyx-tube obco- 

 nical deeply fm-rowed to the base, the teeth with a straight point, 

 exterior spines spreading." — Br. Fl. p. 127. E. B. i. 1335. 



In dry woods, thickets, pastures and waste places, by roadsides, along hedges 

 and borders of fields ; very common. Fl. June, July. 2^. 



Seeds 2 (or often solitary), sometimes 3, yellowish, smooth, ovato-rotundate, 

 erect, firmly enclosed in the hard woody and now strongly deflexed calyx, which 

 is crowned with the connivent segments and several rows of reddish hooked 

 prickles, of which the outer are spreading, the inner ones erect, adhering, like 

 those of the Burdock, to every object with which they come in contact. 



