270 



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PANAX QJJINQUEFOLIUM. 



GINSENG. 



X 



TN 1/TMA 



Ginfeng. F/jarm, Lond, Esf Edhih 



3.38 



Aureliana canadenfis 



preckufe plant e dc Ginfeng. P 

 .42. Catejhy s Car 



• 35- F'^g' ^d. p, 

 Gingfeng f. Ninfm oiE 



Gin-feng Chinenfibus. 7, 



■ Rail Hlft.p^ 

 Lafteau in Memoires cojicernant la 



Et Hijl. de L'Acad. 171 8. 



Breyn. in Prod, rar, pi, 2. 

 Araliaflrum foliis ternis quinquepartitis 



Ehret, tahuL a Trew^ t. G.fg. i. 



6 



718 

 [6. 



Pi?/7. Tranf, vol 



Conf. Des lettrcs edifiantes ^ curieufcs^ torn, x. 



quinquefolii folio, majus Ninfm ^vocatum. Fall, Sex, 43 



vin, p. 237 

 Araliaflrum 



I 



Clafs Polygamia. ^ Ord, Dioecia. Lin, Gen, Plant, 11 65. 



Gen. Cb, 



PIermaphrod, Umbella. C<^/. 5-dentatus, fuperus. 



Cor, 5-petala. Stam, 5. /S*/j// 2, Bacca difperma. 



1 ^ V «i 



Masc, Umbella. C^/. integer. C(?r. 5-petaIa.. aS/^^;??. 5. 



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P. foliis ternis quinatis 



THE root is perennial, fmall, wrinkled, brancbed, of a pale yel- 

 lowifh colour, and fends off many fhort llender fibres : the ftalk is 

 ered, fmooth, round, fimple, tinged of a deep purple colour, and above 

 a foot in height: the leaves arife with the flower item from a thick 

 joint at the extremity of the ilalk ; they are generally three, but 



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fometimes more, of the digitated kind, each dividing into five fimple 

 leaves, which are of an irregular oval fliape, ferrated, veined, pomted, 

 fmooth, of a deep green colour above, and ftand upon lliort footftalks 

 proceeding from a common petiolus, which is long, round, and almolt 



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The plant formerly known by -this name is now underflood to be the Sion iN'" 



of Linnaeus, 



er 



ed: 



