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AGRIMONIA odorata.
Scented Agrimony.
D ODECANDR IA Digynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft, without scales ; tube turbinate,
armed with hooked prickles. Petals 5.
Stamens 7-20, both perigynous. Nuts 1-3, distinct,
enclosed in dry tube of calyx. Style terminal.
Seed suspended.
Spec. Char. Calyx-tube of fruit bell-shaped, not
furrowed ; exterior prickles declining. Leaves
interruptedly pinnate, hairy and glandular beneath.
Syn. Agrimonia foliis pinnatis, foliolis oblongis acutis
serratis. Mill. Diet. no. 3.
Agrimonia odorata. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 875. FI.
Dan. t. 2471. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 2. 130.
Mert. et Koch, Deutschl. FI. v.3. 376. Koch, Syn.
ed. 2. 245. Gren. et Godr. FI. Franc, v. 1. 562.
Godr. FI. Lorr. ed. 2. v. 1. 257. Bab. in Ann. Nat.
Hist. ser. 2. v. 11. 363 ; Man. Br. Bot. ed. 5. 93.
Hook. 85 Am. Br. FI. ed. 8. 134.
Agrimonia Eupatoria, (3. odorata. Coss. et Germ.
FI. Par. ed. 2. 224.
T H I S beautiful and scented plant was first Introduced into
the British flora on the authority of a specimen gathered by
the Rev. W. W. Newbould at Beaumont in Jersey, in the
year 1842, but was not detected in England or Ireland until
after many years had elapsed. The late Mr. Joseph Woods