. 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 102nd meridian . I. Poterium Sanguisorba L. Salad Bur- net. Fig. ^266. Poteriiiin Sanguisorba L. Sp. PI. 994. 1753. Sanguisorba minor Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, i: no. 1772. Sanguisorba Sanguisorba Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 189. 1S94. Glabrous or pubescent, erect, slender, peren- nial, brancbed, 10-20' bigb. Stipules usually small, laciniate; leaflets 7-19, ovate or broadly oval, deeply incise
. 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 102nd meridian . I. Poterium Sanguisorba L. Salad Bur- net. Fig. ^266. Poteriiiin Sanguisorba L. Sp. PI. 994. 1753. Sanguisorba minor Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, i: no. 1772. Sanguisorba Sanguisorba Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 189. 1S94. Glabrous or pubescent, erect, slender, peren- nial, brancbed, 10-20' bigb. Stipules usually small, laciniate; leaflets 7-19, ovate or broadly oval, deeply incised, sbort-stalked or sessile, 6"- 10" long; flowers greenisb. in dense peduncled globose-ovoid heads, 3"-6" long, the lower ones perfect or staminate, the upper pistillate; stamens 12 or more, drooping; stigmas purple; calyx- lobes ovate, acute or acutish; fruit i"-2" long. In dry or rocky soil and in ballast, southern On- tario, Maine, New York and Pennsylvania to Mary- and. Naturalized or adventive from Europe and lative also of Asia. Summer. Garden-burnet. Blood- vort. Bibernel. Pimpernelle. Toper's-plant. 22. AGRIMONIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 448. 1753. Perennial erect herbs, often glandular. Leaves alternate, petioled, odd-pinnate, with smaller leaf-segments interposed between the larger ones, and conspicuous stipules. Flowers small, regular, perfect, yellow, in narrow spicate racemes. in fruit obconic, hemispheric or turbinate, often grooved, uncinate-bristly above, somewhat constricted at the throat, the 5 lobes connivent. Petals 5, small. Stamens 5-15, slender. Carpels 2, included; style terminal; stigma 2-lobed; ovules pendulous. Fruit dry, mostly reflexed; achenes 1-2, oblong. Seed suspended, its testa membranous. [Ancient Latin name.] About 15 species, natives of the north temperate zone, Mexico, and the Andes of South America. Besides the following, another occurs in the Southern States. Type species: Agrimonia Eupatoria L. Racem
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