high : when their feeds were ripened, they were care- 

 fully gathered, as they have been every year fincc^ 

 sod rfguhirly and conflantly fowed every fpring, 

 but without having ever produced a fingle plant. 

 Many botanical gentlemen have viewed thefe plants, 

 and all pronounced them to be mule plants, be-* 

 twixt die Palmatum and Compadum fpecies, 



. ** In the winter 1776, I took up a root of thefe 

 plants fown in 1772, and laid it in afouth window 

 to dry. It had fcveral long perpendicular pyra* 

 midal roots, about nine inches in length, and better 

 than half an inch in diameter. They fhrunk very 

 much in the winter, but were in the fpring fuffi-» 

 ciendy dry to be reduced to powder. I gave dif* 

 ferent dofes of it to divers perfons with all the good 

 cfFe6t of very mild Turkey Rhubarb, although the 

 quantity was nearly doubled. In the beginning of 

 the winter 1777, I took up another rooti the in-» 

 creafe of the fize and quantity of root^ was then 

 yery great. The weight of the root taken up Iq 

 1776 was only between eight and nine pounds | 

 IJut of 1777 weighed full fourteen pounds: thi% 

 root dried better, fhrunk lefs, and in every refped, 

 when dried and pr epared, refembled moie tlie true 

 Turkey Rhubarb. I'he etfedls were likcwife pro* 

 duccd by much fmalkr dofcs ; but it was not alto- 

 gether 



