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PANAX QUINQUEFOLIA. FIVE-LEAVED 
PANAX OR GINSENG. 
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, Clafs and Order. 
Pozrycamia Diecia. (Pentanpria Dicynta Perfoon), 
Generic Charager. 
Cal.5-dentatus, Cor.5-petala. Bacca infera, cordata, 2-{perma, 
Cal. in flore mafculo integer. 
Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. 
PANAX qu/nguefolia; foliis ternis: foliolis quinis petiolatis, 
pedunculo petiolis breviore, radice fufiformi. 
PANAX quinquefolium ; foliis ternis quinatis. Sp. Pl. 1512. 
Reick. 4. p. 362. Kalm. it. 3. p. 334. Blackw. t. 513. 
Regn. Bot. Zorn ic. 155. Woodv. Med. Bot. 270. t. 
Gron, Fi. Virg. 35. ed. 2d. 162. Mart. Mill. Dif. 
PANAX quinguefolium ; caule herbaceo, foliis ternis, foliolis 
quinis ovalibus acuminatis petiolatis. Michaux Fl. 
Bor-Amer. 2. p. 256. Perfoon Syn. 1. p. 298. 
GINSENG. Fartoux; Lettres edifiantes et curieufes, V. 10. De 
172. Philofoph. Tranf. v. 28. p. 237. t. 5- 
AURELIANA canadenfis, Lafiteau Gin/. p. 87. c. tab. Cute/b. 
Carol. app. t. +6. Breyn. Prod. pl. 2. p. 35. t. ad. p. 520 
ARALIASTRUM, Quinquefolii folio ; majus, Ninzin vocatum 
D. Sarrazin. Vaill. Jerm, 43- 
ARALIASTRUM foliis ternis quinquepartitis, Ginfeng f. 
Ninfen officinarum. Trew Ebret. ¢. 6. f. 1. 
Ginsenc has been a famous remedy among the Chinets 
from time immemorial; it is underitood however to be- 
found only in Chinefe Tartary, In the year 1709 Father | 
Jarroux, a miffionary at Peking, was fent by the Emperor _ 
of China to. make a map of that country. Whilft engaged in 
this bufinefs he fell in with an army of Tartars who were em- 
ployed in colleting this highly valued root for the anpers 
which gave him an opportunity of defcribing and making 
drawing of the plant, and tranfmitting the fame to Paris, ina 
letter to. the procurator-general_ of the miffions of India an 
China; a tranflation of which was publifhed in the 28th vol. 
of the Philofophical Tranfadions. ‘4 
Jaxroux fays that the Ginfeng is found between the bi 
ninth and forty-feventh degree north | atitude, where there is 
along tra&t of mountains covered wit wood, It grows on _ 
the declivities of the mountains, on the banks of the soap: 
