PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUM. 
Ginseng. 
PLATE XX1X. 
Fa early part of the eighteenth century 
some accounts were sent to Europe by travellers 
and missionaries, of a root growing in Chinese 
Tartary, known by the name of Ginseng, upon 
which a high value was set by the eastern Asiat- 
ics, and which was sold in the cities of China at an 
enormous price. Father Jartoux, a missionary at 
Pekin, who had an opportunity of witnessing the 
collection and use of this root, made a drawing of 
the plant, accompanied with a particular descrip- 
_ tion, and an account of its uses, and the cause of 
~ its high estimation and demand among the Chi- 
nese. While on a journey among the mountains 
of Tartary, performed under the sanction of the 
emperor of China, he met in various instances 
