. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . (), sub-order Potentillew. The calyx is five-cleft, without bracts; the hardened tube at lentrth invests two car-pels, and is covered with hooked bristles.—The CoMMOX Agri-mony (A. Eiipatoria) is a native of Britain and other parts ofEurope, growing in borders of fields, on waysides, .Src. It has anupright habit, attains a height of two feet or more, and has inter-ruptedly pinnate leaves, with the leaflets serrate and downybeneath. The flowers are small and yellow, in close racemes. The 66 AGEIPPA—AGUADO. whol
. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . (), sub-order Potentillew. The calyx is five-cleft, without bracts; the hardened tube at lentrth invests two car-pels, and is covered with hooked bristles.—The CoMMOX Agri-mony (A. Eiipatoria) is a native of Britain and other parts ofEurope, growing in borders of fields, on waysides, .Src. It has anupright habit, attains a height of two feet or more, and has inter-ruptedly pinnate leaves, with the leaflets serrate and downybeneath. The flowers are small and yellow, in close racemes. The 66 AGEIPPA—AGUADO. whole plant has a pleasant, slightly aromatic smell, and is bitterand styptic. A decoction of it is vised as a gargle; the dried leavesformaliind of herb tea; and the root has some celebrity as a vermi-. Common Agrimony {Agrimonia Eupatoria). fuge.—Verj .similar to this is A. suaveolens, a native of Viigiiiia,Carolina, &c. It has a very agreeable fragrance. AGRIPPA, CoKNELlus Henry, a remarkable cliaracter ofthe 16th c., distinguished as writer, philosopher, and physician,wlio united great ability and extensive acquirements with quack-ery, was born of a noble family at Cologne, 1486. He led anadventurous and unsettled life, quite in the spirit of Ids times. Asearly as 1509, he was ajjpointed. teaclier of theology at Dole, inFranche Co4nte, and attracted great attention by liis lectmes; butliaving by liis bitter satires on the monks drawn upon liimself tliehatred of that bodj, lie was accused of lieresy, and obliged toleave Dole. He next taught theology for some time in Cologne,occupying himself at tlie same time with alcliemy, and then wentto Italy, where lie took military service under Maximilian I., andwas knighted. He was afterwards made Doctor of Laws and ofMedicine, and gav
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