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MEMOIR 
ON THE 
VIRTUES AND USES OF THE PLANT 
CALLED IN PERU 
Leo SP here p- 
(BEJUCO DE LA EST REL 
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BY DON HIPPOLITO RUIZ, 
FIRST aA TO HIS MAJESTY IN THE EXPEDITION To ahaha 
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sABELIMINARY NOTICE. 
iii ined the e Virginia Snake-roots. brought 
to us from Virgi a 
4 nghish for medicinal purposes, I 
have found them ill Sorted iti mingled with different roots of 
other unknown plants, so intimately intermixed with the genu- 
ine ones, that the most acute and discriminating physician could. 
scarcely distinguish them. [ immediately conceived the idea of | 
announcing this observation by means of the Memoir which T 
was about to publish on the Star-reed, to be presented to the — 
Royal Medical Academy of Madrid, in order that, if approved, 
it might be ret in she second volume of their Tran 
