Common Agrimony; or Agrimonia Eupatoria, L. is an indigenous plant, Which grows in elevated situations, and is frequently met with about hedges and roads. It is represented in the 6th and 7th plates of CuRTiSS Flora Londi-nensiS, p. 317.

In a medicinal view, the leaves of this vegetable are said to be aperient, detergent, and to strengthen the tone of the viscera3 hence they have been used in laxity of the intestines, in scorbutic, and other disorders arising from debility. Digested in whey, agrimony affords a diet-drink grateful to the palate and stomach ; though its leaves have an herbaceous and roughish taste, accompanied with an aromatic flavour. The leaves and stalks, together with the closed flowers, afford a dark yellow decoction, which, when previously impregnated with a diluted solution of bismuth, imparts a beautiful and permanent gold-colour to animal wool. We are induced to state this fact upon the authority of M. Dambourney, who, in the year 1793, published a volume of" Facts and Experiments on genuine and permanent Colours, " printed at Leipzig, in the German language.

The blossoms of the common agrimony have also been occasionally employed by tanners, for curing soft and delicate skins.