GINSENG, 98 
_ There’ are also barren flowers, on separate 
plants, which botanists describe as having larger 
petals, and an entire calyx. I have not met with 
plants of this description in flower. 
The foregoing character leaves little doubt 
that the American” plant is precisely the same 
with the Asiatic, although Loureiro and some oth- 
ers have disputed their identity. The description 
of Jartoux, which has been given, as well as his 
drawing of the plant, agrees in every respect, ex- 
cept that his plant had four branches or leaves, 
instead of three.’ ‘This is accounted for by sup- 
posing he ‘had chosen a luxuriant ‘specimen.—It 
is somewhat remarkable that the names of the 
Chinese, and of the North American Indians, 
should signify the same thing im their'respective 
Janguages, ‘viz. a resemblance to the jigure of a 
man, 'This resemblance, however, it must be con- 
fessed, even in the ee is rather of a 
humble kind. - rie 
. The genus Panax owas blanc byt Fiimnindis in 
his class: Polygamia, and ‘by ‘late writers in Pen- 
tandria, Digynia. The plants of this family were 
salso’ referred by Linneus to his natural order 
‘Hederacee, or somewhat heterogeneous assem- 
plage of vegetables ; and by Jussieu to his Aralie. job 1/erv ad 
Later botanists have placed them among the Um- / 
