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Common Agrimony 

 Agrimonia striata Michaux 

 {Agrimonia brittoniana Bickn< 



Plate 98b 



Stem rather stout and usually with some straight, nearly erect branches, 

 2 to 6 feet tall from a perennial fibrous root, pubescent with short, spread- 

 ing, brownish hairs, somewhat appressed above. Leaves numerous, alternate, 

 compound with seven to nine, or rarely eleven, oblique leaflets, tetragonal- 

 elliptic to rhomboid-lanceolate, pointed and sharply toothed, rather thick 

 and somewhat rough, dull green above, softly pubescent beneath, usually 

 several pairs of small, interposed leaflets; stipules lanceolate, pointed and 

 cut-toothed. Flowers numerous in long, erect or ascending racemes; each 

 flower about one-fourth of an inch wide; petals five, bright yellow; calyx 

 tube in fruit long- turbinate, about one-fourth of an inch long, deeply grooved, 

 unmargined; the bristles numerous, often purplish, short, crowded, inflexed 

 and connivent over the sepals. 



Thickets, open w r oods and roadsides, Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, 



south to West Virginia, Nebraska and Mexico. Flowering from June 



to September. 



Barren or Dry Strawberry 



Waldsteinia fragarioides (Michaux) Trattinnick 



Plate 99 



A perennial, herbaceous plant resembling a strawberry, with creeping, 

 rather stout rootstock. Leaves tufted, mainly basal, long petioled, glabrous 

 or somewhat pubescent, three -foliate ; leaflets obovate, obtuse at the apex, 

 tapering at the base with crenate or sometimes incised margins, 1 to 2 

 inches long. Flowering scapes slender, erect, bracted, corymbosely three 

 to eight-flowered; pedicels slender, of ten drooping ; flowers yellow, one-half 

 to two-thirds of an inch broad; petals five, obovate and longer than the 

 five ovate-lanceolate, acute calyx lobes; stamens eight, inserted on the 

 throat of the calyx; achenes of the fruit four to six, finely pubescent. 



Rocky woods, shaded hillsides and banks, New Brunswick to Ontario, 

 Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana and Oregon. Flowering in May and June. 



