320 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



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G. Virginidnum is a stouter and very hairy species. It has 

 smaller petals with large receptacles, on which are many stout 

 hairs bent backwards. Leaves variously divided, the lower 

 parted to the stem, the upper lobed. Time, all summer. 



34. Common Agrimony 



Agrimhnia Eupatoria. — Family, Rose. Color, yellow. 

 Leaves, pinnate, of 5 to 11 large, toothed leaflets, with very s;mall 

 ones accompanying them on the stem. Time, July to September. 



Calyx, a tube, with a 5-cleft border margined with hooked 

 bristles, closing over the fruit after flowering. Petals, 5, longer 

 than the calyx. Stamens, several. Fruit, a pair of achenes. 

 Flowers, in slender racemes. 2 to 6 feet tall. 



35. Small-flowered Agrimony 



A.parviflhra has more, long and narrow, leaflets, 1 1 to 19, with 

 many smaller ones interspersed, deeply toothed, and smaller, 

 yellow flowers. Same height as the last. 



New York to Georgia and westward. 



36. Sweet Cicely 



Osmorrh'iza brevistylis (scented root). — Family, Parsley. 

 Color, white. Leaves, thrice compound. Leaflets ovate, 

 toothed, softly hairy, tapering, 2 or 3 inches long. Time, May, 

 June. 



Florvers, in umbels, with few involucral bracts underneath. 

 Plant 2 or 3 feet high, softly hairy, graceful and delicate in 

 its form and foliage. The root is pleasantly anise-scented. 



Found in the Northern States and in the mountains farther 

 south. 



O. longistylts is scarcely more than a variety of the last, being 

 distinguished from it by its longer style. 



