GINSENG. 91 
is seldom found north of Montreal. Michaux 
states that it inhabits mountains and rich, shady 
woods from Canada to Tennessee. I have princi- 
pally met with this plant in the western parts of 
Massachusetts, and in Vermont, especially on the 
sides of the Ascutney mountain. Bartram found 
it near the mouth of the Delaware. 
Linnaeus has given to the genus of plants, 
which includes the Ginseng, the name of Panax, 
a Greek word, intended to express the oputed 
character of the Chinese. panacea, 
‘The character of this genus consists in @ sim- 
ple umbel ; corolla jive petalled ; berry inferior, 
two or three seeded ; plants polygamous. 
The species quinguefolinm has" pee pau 
leaves. 
The root of this plant consists of one or more 
fleshy, oblong and somewhat fusiform portions, of 
a whitish colour, transversely wrinkled, and ter- 
minating in various ‘radicles. | Its upper portion 
is slender and marked with the scars of the former 
shoots. Stem smooth, round, green, with often a 
tinge of red, regular ly divided at top into three 
petioles, with a flower-stalk at their centre. Peti- 
oles round, smooth, swelling at base. Leaves 
three, compound, containing five, rarely three or 
seven leafets. _ The partial: leaf-st nee are given 
