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petioled, toothed. Leaves alternate, narrower at the 
bafe, with fmall rounded ears bent in, green and fmooth 
on the upper furface, tomentofe and veined on the 
lower like (age. Native of Ceylon. 
10. Eupatorium fefiilifolium, or fefiile-leaved hemp- 
agrimony : leaves feffile ; ftem-clafping, diftiinSt, lanceo¬ 
late. Stems (lender, round, fmooth ; leaves in pairs, 
at two inches diftance ; feflile, two inches long, mucro- 
nate, refembling thofe of mint, (lightly toothed on the 
edge ; flowers terminating, corymbed, in many little 
heads, white, (lender. Native of Virginia ; flowers in 
September and Odlober. 
11. Eupatorium album, or white hemp-agrimony: 
leaves lanceolate ferrate ; leaflets of the calyx lanceolate ; 
fcariofe at the end ; and coloured. Found in Pennfylva- 
nia by Bartram ; alfo in Japan by Thunberg, who 
defcribes the (fern as round, villofe, fpotted with purple, 
and branched ; the branches nearly oppofite, decollated 
and patulous : leaves ovate-oblong, (harp, pubefcent, an 
inch or more in length. 
12. Eupatorium Chinenfe, or Chinefe hemp-agrimony : 
leaves ovate, petioled, ferrate. Stem foniewhat angu¬ 
lar, flexuofe-eredt, fmooth, but little branched, a foot 
high or more. Native of China and Japan. 
13. Eupatorium Japonicum, or Japanefe hemp-agri¬ 
mony : leaves undivided and three-lobed, ferrate ; (lent 
fcabrous. Stem round, (freaked, ereft, branched, two 
feet and upwards in height. Native of Japan. 
14. Eupatorium rotundifolium, or round-leaved hemp- 
agrimony : leaves feflile, diftinft, roundifh-cordate. This 
rifes with upright (talks about a foot high : the joints are 
near each other, and at every joint is a pair of leaves, of a 
light green colour, and ferrate : the flowers are produced 
in fmall loofe panicles at the topsof the (talks ; they are 
white, and have two fmall leaves immediately under 
them ; the flowers appear at the end of June, but the 
feeds feldom ripen in England. Native of New-England 
and Virginia. 
15. Eupatorium (tipulaceum, or ftipuled eupatorium : 
leaves haftate, acute at both ends, three-nerved, fti puled ; 
flowers corymbed; (tern climbing. Native of Brafil. 
16. Eupatorium altiflimum, or tall hemp-agrimony : 
leaves lanceolate, nerved ; the lower ones a little ferrate 
on the outmoft part ; ftern underflirubby. This rifes 
with a Angle upright green (talk, about four feet high ; 
at each joint are four leaves in whorls ; fix inches long, 
and two inches broad in the middle, Ieflening to both 
ends, terminating in acute points, rough, ferrate, and on 
Ihort foot-ftalks ; (tern terminated by a clofe corymb of 
purple flowers, appearing in July, and continuing till 
September. Native of North America. 
17. Eupatorium haftatum, or haftate-leaved hemp-agri¬ 
mony : leaves cordate-haftate, fomewhat toothed, naked ; 
(tern twining ; flowers in fpikes. The flowers fmell like 
thofe of Cacalia fuaveolens ; the tafle of the whole herb 
is bitter. This is a climber, and tiretches a great way 
among the neighbouring bullies ; it is frequent about St. 
Thomas’s in the Eaft, and Manganeel, in Jamaica. 
1S. Eupatorium Syriacum, or Syrian hemp-agrimony : 
leaves oppofite, fubfeflile, ternate. Stems liraight, round, 
four or five feet high ; flavour unpleafant and bitterifh ; 
it flowers in Odfober. 
19. Eupatorium trifidum, or trifid eupatorium : leaves 
three-parted ; the floral ones undivided ; ftem climbing. 
Native of the Caribbee ifiands. 
20. Eupatorium trifoliatum, cr three.leaved hemp- 
agrimony : leaves in threes. Stems upright, in a moift 
foil (even or eight feet high ; leaves oval, rough, lanceo¬ 
late, a little ferrate, in whorls of four, five, or (even, at 
each joint, three inches long, and two broad; the (ferns 
are terminated by a loofe corymb of purple flowers, 
which appear in Auguft, and continue till Ottober, but 
are not fucceeded by feeds in England. Gronovius found 
it in Virginia; Vernon brought it from Maryland ; Mil¬ 
ler (ays that it grows in Penfylvania ; Krocker relates 
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that it is found in Silefia, and that it is like our common 
European fort, except in having leaves in threes, and 
white flowers. Miller’s can hardly be Linnaeus’s plant. 
21. Eupatorium cannab'inum, or common hemp-agri¬ 
mony : leaves digitate. Stems three or four, and even 
fix, feet high, hairy, reddifli, branched ; the ftem has 
a pleafant aromatic fmell, when cut ; the flowers have a 
ftrong fmell. The whole plant has a very bitter tafle ; 
a handful of it vomits and purges fmartly ; an ounce of 
the root in deception is a full dofe ; and is fometimes 
taken in the jaundice, dropfy, &c. but it is a rough me¬ 
dicine, and ought to be ufed with caution. Boerhaave 
gave an infufion of this plant to foment ulcers and putrid 
fores. Tournefort informs us, that the Turks cure the 
feurvy with it. Of all cattle, goats alone feem to eat it. 
Found on the banks both of running and ftagnant waters, 
frequently in mod parts of Europe; flowering in July 
and Auguft. In johnfon’s edition of Gerarde it is named 
common Dutch agrimony. 
/ 3 . The variety, E. cann, folio integri, is the feedling 
plant, and has oval-lanceolate leaves ; it fometimes flowers 
in that (fate, but not often ; the fecond year it bears leaves 
in threes. Profelfor John Martyn found this variety with 
Ample leaves, but forgot the place. Dillenius met with 
it afterwards before you come to Lee in the road to El- 
tham. Mr. Woodward has fince obferved it near Bun¬ 
gay in Suffolk. 
III. Calyxes eight-flowered. 22. Eupatorium cori- 
aceum, or coriaceous hemp-agrimony : leaves elliptic, 
coriaceous, fmooth, toothed on the outfide. Suppofed 
to be a native of South America. 
23. Eupatorium cinereum, or cinereous hemp-agri¬ 
mony : calyxes feven-flowered ; leaves oppofite, lanceo¬ 
late, tomentofe. This very much refembles an Athanafia 
in its flowers and woody rigid Item. Thunberg found it 
at the Cape of Good Hope. 
24. Eupatorium purpureum, or purple hemp-agri¬ 
mony : leaves in fours, fcabrous, lanceolate-ovate, un¬ 
equally ferrate, petioled, wrinkled. Stem cylindric, 
green, but purplifh at the bafe of the petioles; it grows 
to the height of three feet or more. Native of North 
America and Cochinchina. 
25. Eupatorium diffufum, or diffufed hemp-agrimony : 
leaves ovate, ferrate, three-nerved ; panicle very much 
branched and diffufed. The whole plant is fmooth. 
Native of South America. 
26. Eupatorium nervofum, or nerved hemp-agrimony : 
leaves elliptic-lanceolate, attenuated, toothed, triple- 
nerved, fmooth on both (ides ; calyxes many-flowered. 
27. Eupatorium rigidum, or (tiff hemp-agrimony : leaves 
petioled, ovate, acute, ferrate-toothed, rigid, rugged 
underneath; ftem fubherbaceous. Natives of Jamaica. 
28. Eupatorium maculatum, or fpotted hemp-agri¬ 
mony : leaves in fives, fomewhat tomentofe, lanceolate, 
equally ferrate, veined, petioled. Stem annual, about 
two feet and a half high, purple, with many dark fpots 
upon it; leaves rough, placed by threes towards the bot¬ 
tom of the ftalk, but near the top by pairs at each joint ; 
flowers purple, terminating in a fort of corymb, appear¬ 
ing in July and Auguft, and in warm feafons ripening the 
feeds in autumn ; egret Ample or capillary. Native of 
North America ; and cultivated here in 1656, by Mr. 
John Tradefcant, juir. 
29. Eupatorium auriculatum, or eared hemp-agrimony: 
leaves ovate, toothletted, tomentofe underneath, petioles 
eared ; ftem climbing ; flowers in fpikes. Native of 
Brafil. 
30. Eupatorium nsolle, or foft hemp-agrimony : leaves 
petioled, cordate, acute, fubferrate, pubefcent ; ftem 
herbaceous, tomentofe. Native of Guiana, Jamaica, &c. 
annual. 
31. Eupatorium villcfum, or hairy hemp-agrimony: 
leaves oppofite, decuflated, ovate, fubferrate, beneath 
villofe-tomentofe ; calyxes eight to fifteen-flowered ; ftem 
fhrubby. Native of Jamaica and Domingo. 
32. Eupatorium 
