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EUPATORIUM MACULATUM.
SPOTTED-STEMMED HEMPWEED. BITTER EUPATORIUM.
Syngenesia jEqualis, Linn. Corymbiferse, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix simple or imbricate, oblong. Style long and semi-bifid. Receptacle naked. Pappus
pilose, or more commonly scabrous. Seed smooth and glandular, quinque-
striate. Nutt.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Leaves petiolate, in four’s or five’s, ovate-lanceolate, unequally serrate, pubescent
beneath ; stem solid, furrowed. Willd.
Plant from two feet to two and an half, and sometimes three feet
high. Root perennial. Stem erect, terete, of a lake-red colour, spotted
with long specks of the same hue, but darker, and occasionally of
a greenish cast. Leaves in three’s, four’s, and five’s in a whorl.
