SE&SILIB ®W1* 



EUPATORIUM MACULATUM. 



SPOTTED-STEMMED HEMPWEED. BITTER EUPATORIUM 



Syngencsia JEqual'is, Linn. Corymbiferoe, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix simple or imbricate, oblong. Style long and semi-bifid. Receptacle naked. Pap- 

 pus pilose, or more commonly scabrous. Seed smooth and glandular, quinquc- 

 striate. Nutt. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Leaves petiolate, in four's or five's, ovate-lanceolate, unequally serrate, pubescent 

 beneath ; stem solid, furrowed. Willd. 



Plant from two feet to two and an half, and sometimes three feet 

 high. Root perennial. Stem erect, terete, of a lake-red colour, spotted 

 with long specks of the same hue, hut darker, and occasionally of 

 a greenish cast. Leaves in three's, four's, and five's in a whorl. 



