[  1051--<]. 
PoLYGALA SENEGA. OrFICINAL MILK- 
Wort, or RATTLE-SNAKE-Roor, | 
JHE eek dled 
Cla/s and Order. 
DIADELPHIA OcTANDRIA. 
Generic Charafer. 
Cal. 5-phyllus : foliolis alzformibus, coloratis. Cap/ ob- 
_ cordatum, 2-loculare. 
Specific Charafier and Synonyms. 
POLYGALA Senega; floribus imberbibus {fpicatis, caule 
ereGto herbaceo fimpliciflimo, foliis lato lan- 
ceolatis. Sp. Pl. gg0. Reich. 3. p. 390. Aman. 
. Acad. 2. p. 139. t.2. Mill. Did. cum Icone, 
Hort. Kew. 3. p. 6. Woodv. Med. Bot. 253. 
t. 93. Gron. Virg. ed. 1. 80. 2.103. Mart. 
Mil. Did. n. 32. Michaux Flor. Am. Bor, 2. 
POLYGALA (Soe Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. 894. 
POLYGALA? Plantula Marilandica, caule non ramofo, fpica 
in faftigio fingulari e flofculis albis compofita, 
Rati Sup. 640. : 
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A hardy perennial, cultivated by Mixtier, in 1759, but 
having little beauty to boaft, is rarely met with in our gardens, 
It was once however a plant of confiderable intereft; firft 
rought into notice by Dr. Tennent, an American phyfician, 
asa f{pecific for the bite of the rattle-fnake, a ufe which he 
learned of the Indians. He afterwards, from fome analogy in 
e fymptoms, tried it in pleurify, with very great fuccefs ; 
and it became a remedy in confiderable vogue in Europe as 
Well as in America. Dr. TENNENT received a reward from. 
the houfe of reprefentatives of Pennfylvania for the difcovery ; 
— neverthelefs 
