. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6. Agrimonia parviflora Soland. Many-flowered Agrimony. Fig. 2272. Agrimonia parviflora Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 130. 1789. Virgately branched, 2°-6° high, with long racemes. Stem densely hirsute with coarse brownish hairs, villous abouve ; leaves crowded, the lower often deflexed; leaflets 9-17, close together, spreading, lanceolate or linear- lanceolate
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6. Agrimonia parviflora Soland. Many-flowered Agrimony. Fig. 2272. Agrimonia parviflora Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 130. 1789. Virgately branched, 2°-6° high, with long racemes. Stem densely hirsute with coarse brownish hairs, villous abouve ; leaves crowded, the lower often deflexed; leaflets 9-17, close together, spreading, lanceolate or linear- lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrate, rather thin, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, espe- cially on the veins, very glandular; interposed leaf-segments mostly 4 or 5 crowded pairs; stipules laciniate, acuminate; flowers very numerous, 3"-$" broad; the buds rounded- truncate; fruit loosely reflexed, small, glandu- lar, dilated-turbinate with a prominent elevated disk; bristles reflexed, spreading and erect. In moist or dry soil, Connecticut, to Michigan, Kansas, Georgia and Mississippi. Roots fibrous. 23. WALDSTEINIA Willd. Neue Schr. Gesell. Nat. Fr. 2: 105. pi. 4. 1799. Perennial herbs, with the aspect of Strawberries, with alternate mainly basal long-petioled 3-S-£oliolate or lobed leaves, membranous stipules, and yellow corymbose flowers on bracted scapes. Calyx persistent, the tube top-shaped, minutely 5-bracteolate or bractless at the summit, ,5-Iobed. Petals 5, obovate, longer than the calyx-lobes. Stamens 8, inserted on the throat of the calyx; filaments rigid, persistent. Carpels 2-6, inserted on a short villous recep- tacle; style nearly terminal, deciduous, filiform. Achenes 2-6, obliquely obovoid, pubescent. Seed erect. [Named in honor of Franz Adam von Waldstein-Wartenburg, 1759-1823, a German botanist.] Five known species, natives of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, another occurs in Georgia. Type species: Waldsteinia geoides Willd
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