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with longer spreading hairs; blossoms 
less than a half-inch broad, with five 
small, rounded, yellow petals, many 
stamens, one pistil with two-parted 
style, and a hairy, five-lobed calyx, 
closed after flowering and surrounded 
with a ring of hooked bristles; these 
lengthen as the two achenes within 
mature, forming a small, top-shaped 
bur with its outer row of hooks de- 
flexed, the inner ones spreading and 
erect, so that no sheep or woollen gar- 
ment can touch a spike without attach- 
ing most of its fruits. (Fig. 154.) 
Means of control 
If flocks are to be kept in their 
neighborhood the plants should be 
searched out and closely cut while in 
7 Fig. 154.— Tall Hairy Agri- 
first bloom. Or, when the ground is mony (Agrimonia gryposepala). 
xt. 
soft, they may be hand-pulled. 
SOFT AGRIMONY 
Agriménia méllis, Britton 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by tubers. 
Time of bloom: July to October. 
Seed-time: August to November. 
eos Connecticut to Michigan, southward to North Carolina and 
ansas. 
_ Habitat: Hillsides, dry woodland borders, and thickets. 
Roots tuberous, rather thick and elongated. Stems very slender, 
two to five feet tall, with slim ascending branches, covered with fine, 
very soft hair. Leaflets five to nine (mostly seven), with two or 
three intermediate smaller pairs, oblong to elliptic or obovate, 
obtuse, rather thick, scallop-toothed, grayish green and very softly 
hairy on both sides; stipules oblong to lance-shaped, and entire, or 
sometimes broad and sharply toothed. Racemes long and wand- 
like, interrupted, the flowers nearly a half-inch broad, bright yellow. 
