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larger palmatdy 3 — 5-lobed, fl. in compound cymes, caps, gla- 
brous twisted.— B. 960. St. 18. 8.— St. about 3 feet high, 
angular, branched. L. with a few large serrate leaflets and very 
minute intermediate ones, downy beneath. Cymes with long 
side branches. Fl. yellowish, sweet-scented. Pet. roundish. — 
Meadows and by water. P. VI. — yYQ..- Meadaw-swcet. E.S.I. 
_ 3. B. Filipen 'dula (L.) ; herbaceous, stip. of the root-leaves 
linear acute entire, those of the stem rounded and cut, 1. inter- 
ruptedly pianate, leaflets all oblong deeply cut and serrate, fl. in a 
Sanicled cyme, caps, haiiy parallelly adpressed not twisted. — 
?. B. 284. St. 18. 7.— Eoot producing knobs. St. 1—1^ foot 
high, round, simple, panicled at the top. L. mostly radical, 
spreading ; leaflets small, many, intermediate ones small. Fl. 
yellowish-white tinged with red. Pet. ohovate. — Dry chalky 
and limestone pastures. P. VI. VII. Dropwort. E. S. I. 
Tribe II. Sanffuisorbida, 
3. Sanguisok'ba Linn. Great Burnet. 
1. S. officinalis (L.) ; spikes ovate-oblong, stam. about as long 
as the calyx, leaflets cordate-oblong. — E. B. 1312. — L. pinnate, 
glabrous; leaflets about 13, stalked, opposite, blunt, coarsely 
serrate. Spikes rarely long, cylindrical. Fr. oblong, winged 
chiefly in its upper half, transverse section round, 4 wings thin. 
—Damp meadows. P. VI.— VKI. E. S. I. 
4. Pote'eium Linn. Lesser Burnet. 
1. P. Sanguisor'ba (L.) ; herbaceous, st. slightly angular, cal. 
of the fruit hardened quadrangular irregularly urinkled. — E. B, 
8G0. — L. pinnate with many small ovate coarsely sen'ate sub- 
sessile leaflets, glabrous or slightly hairy beneath. Lower part 
of the steins and petioles often downy. — On a dry calcareous 
soil. P. VI.— Vni. E. S. L 
{2. P. muricdtum (Spach) ; herbaceous, st. slightly angular, 
calyx o{ fruit hardened i-winged pitted, pits with elevated and 
denticulate edges. — Closely resembling the preceding species but 
usually larger in all its parts. Leaflets usually oval. — Dry 
places. P. VI. Vn. fi. 
5. Agrimo'nia Idnn. Agrimony. 
1. A. Eupatdria (L.) ; ccd.-tuhe of fr. ohconic farrowed to the 
base, exterior spines spreading, 1. iuten'uptedly pinnate seiTate 
shaggy beneath. — E. B. 1:535. St. 59. 4. — St. erect, about 2 feet 
high. Spikes long with distant yellow flowers. Leaflets deeply 
serrate. — Fields and roadsides. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
