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 Phytolacca Decandra. Virginian Poke, 



Clafs and Order. 

 Decandria Decagynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. o. Petala 5 calycina. Bacca fupera 10-IocuIaris, io- 

 fperma. 



Specific Chamber and Synonyms. 



PHYTOLACCA decandra; floribus decandris dccagynis. Sp. 



PL 631. /F/7/^. 2. p. 822. itoVj&. 2. p. 406. 



Blackw. Ed. Germ. t. 515. Mill. 111. Zorn. 



Ic. Mart. Mill. Diff. n. 3. Gron. Virg. 161. 



Desf. All. 369. Hall. Helv. n. 1007. Abbot. 



Georg. t. 97. Michaux Fl. Bor-Am. 1. p. 278. 

 PHYTOLACCA vulgaris. £>///. Ellh. 318. /. 239. f. 309. 

 SOLANUM magnum virginianum rubrum. Park. Theat. 347. 



8. / 3. Afor^ #£/?. 3. p. 522./. 13. r. 1. 



/• 1. 

 SOLANUM racemofum americanum. Rati Hijf. 662. Pluk. 



Phyt. t. 225. /. 3. 



SOLANUM racemofum tinclorium americanum, foliis et fe- 

 rn ini bus Amaranth i. Herm, Hort. Lug. 574. 

 Wcinm. Phyt. t. 936. 



BLITUM americanum. Munting. Icon. 112. 



In large gardens, where the room it neceflarily takes up c?n 

 be fpared, this, in fcveral refpecls, fingular plant may be al- 

 lowed a place ; for, bearing flowers and fruit at the fame time, 

 it is by no means void of beauty. Being of the natural order 

 of Atriplices of Jussieu, the Holorace^ of Linnj-us, 

 one is not furprifed to find that it is fometirnes eaten boiled as 

 fpinach, at the fame time it may be obferved that it has rather 

 a fufpicious afpecl, and we are told that in America the root 

 is in common ufe as a domeftic purge, and that two fpoon- 

 fuls of white wine, in which an ounce of the dried root has 



been 



