CIMICIF'UGA PALMA'TA. 
PALMATED BUGWOKT. 
Class. 
POLYANDRJA 
Order. 
PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANCNCELACEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. Am erica 
4 feet. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1812. 
No. 1083. 
The deiivation of the name, Cimicifuga, is found- 
ed on the virtues, or supposed virtues, of one of its 
species. It is compounded of the two Greek words 
cimex, a bug ; and fugo, to drive away. 
This North American herbaceous plant is very 
rarely met with, either in nurseries or in private 
collections. Its flowers, although not possessing 
gaiety, are somewhat singular, and their variable 
character has been referred to, as evidence against 
the value of the Linnean system of arrangement. 
It is tine that this plant, instead of being placed in 
the order pentagynia, may have occupied any other 
order in the class pentandria, since it will be found 
with various numbers of styles, from one to twelve. 
It would seem, that the styles and stamens are so 
placed, in contiguity, that like other beings of a 
very diilerent order of creation, they are somewhat 
inconstant to their respective positions. 
This plant may be grown in a pot, where it will 
have the character given in our plate ; or in a dry 
border, where it will branch out, and be much 
larger. It grows freely in any rich and rather 
sandy earth. 
