EUPATORIUM MACULA'TUM. 
SPOT-STALKED EUPATORIUM. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. POLYGAMIA iEQUALIS. 
Natural Order. 
CORYMBIFERiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
N. America. 
5 feet. 
Aug. Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1656. 
No. 107. 
The term Eupatorium appears to have entered the 
botanical nomenclature at a very early period, and 
was established in honour of Mithridates, King of 
Pontus, surnamed Eupator. He was a man of great 
learning, but of insatiable ambition ; which passion 
he cherished by the most malignant tyranny, exer- 
cised against the Romans and other powers. He is 
said to have been skilled in medicine, and a compo- 
sition, now common in the apothecary’s shop, still 
bears his name. Mithridate’s prescription was ver- 
sified by Damocritus, hence the same medicine is 
indiscriminately called after either individual. Ma- 
culatum, from the Latin, signifying spotted. 
Many of the plants belonging to this family, are 
known by the name hemp-agrimony, and the pre- 
sent one has sometimes been called spotted hemp- 
agrimony, a name by which it will be recognized 
by many of our readers. It is a handsome herba- 
ceous plant that may be advantageously classed with 
tall annuals, from its season of flowering. 
A division of its roots may be made for the pur- 
pose of increase, at the usual season ; and no peculiar 
care will be required in its cultivation. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 507. 
