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The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
i. LINEAR DUTCH AGRIMONY. 
Plate 97. Fig. 1. 
Character of the Species. Eupatorium hyiTopifolium. 
The Leaves are linear, and have three ftrong Ribs. 
Fig. 1 . a. b. 
This is a lingular, though hut inelegant Plant, native of Vir- 
ginia and Canada, and flowers from June to October. The flrfl: 
Leaves are long, narrow, and obtufe, and divided at the edges, harfli 
to the touch, and of a dufky green. The Stalk is hard, brittle, 
ridg’d, of a whitifh green, and two feet or more in height : its 
Leaves are oblong and narrow ; but they fwell a little toward the 
middle : they are of the fame harfli green with thofe from the root, 
and have three confpicuous ribs : they are lefs obtufe than thofe 
from the root, and intirely undivided at the edges : the Stalk, and 
lower Leaves are Ihghtly hairy : thofe toward the top of the Plant 
lefs fo. The Flowers are fmall and white. 
2. CLUSTERY DUTCH AGRIMONY. 
Plate 97. Fig. 2. 
Character of the Species. Eupatorium fcandens. 
The Stalk twifts about other Plants: the Leaves are heart- 
ed, and boldly cut at the edges. 
Fig. 1. a b. 
This Species, which is Angular and handfome both, is a native 
alfo of Virginia ; common in wet places, and flowers all the latter 
part of fummer: it is a Perennial, with a weak long Stalk, which, 
fupporting itfelf by twining about whatever is near it, often rifes to 
a very confiaerable height. The Leaves are large, and of a delicate 
green, heart-fliaped, indented at the edges, and (harp-pointed : the 
Flowers grow in little tufts at the top of all the branches, and are 
of a very delicate crimfon. 
3. EGG- 
