The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
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3. EGG-LEAV’D DUTCH AGRIMONY. 
Plate 97. Fig. 3. 
Chara&erof the Species. Eupatorium houftonianium. 
The Stalk climbs, and the Leaves are egg-fhaped, and 
undivided at the edges. 
Fig-3 • a b • 
This is a Perennial, native of Vera Cruz, and flowers in a fuc- 
ceflion many months, though not with any great beauty. The Stalk 
is round, but edged a little ; weak, but tough ; and, twining about 
any thing, will rife to a very conflderable height ; fometimes ten or 
twelve feet. The Leaves are of a fine glofly green : their fhape is 
oval, and their ribs are confpicuous, and often tinged with red. The 
Flowers grow upon the tops of all the Branches, not in tufts, but in 
loofe inconfiderable fpikes, and are of a pale, but delicate crimfon. 
DUTCH AGRIMONY. 
b Thofe which have five Flowers in each Cup. 
AURICULATED DUTCH AGRIMONY. 
Plate 98. Fig. 1 . 
Character of the Species. Eupatorium Zeylanicuni. 
The Leaves are egg-fhaped, but they have a kind of ears 
at the Bafe, which give them a fpeary form. 
Fig. 1 . a b. 
This is a tall Plant, native of Ceylon: the fir ft Leaves are of a 
deep green : they have on each fide, near the Bafe, a fmall flip of a 
leafy matter in the manner of an ear. The Stalk is of a whitifli 
green: its Leaves are of a ftrong green. The Flowers are fmall 
and crimfon. 
2. AMPLEXICAUL DUTCH AGRIMONY. 
Plate 98. Fig. 2. 
Chara&er of the Species. Eupatorium feflilifolium. 
The Leaves are roundilh, but fomewhat lanced, and em- 
brace the Stalk. 
Fig. 2. a. b. 
This 
