APPENDIX. 484 
TRIOSTEUM PERFOLIATUM. 
Tuar the Aborigines made use of this plant 
in medicine is attested in Mr. Clayton’s letter to 
Dr. Grew in the Philosophical transactions, Vol. 
VIII. of Hutton’s abridgment. He says, 
“There is another herb which they call Indian 
purge. This plant has several woody stalks 
growing near three feet tall, and perfoliate ; it 
bears yellow berries round about the joints. 
They only make use of the root of this plant.” 
From this description it is sufficiently obvious 
that the plant in bode was no other than 
Triosteum sedi mae ef aE : 
Pike ah j ets tages wears FE 
CICUTA MACULATA. 
Tue following is part of a, letter from Dr. 
Richard Hazeltine of Lynn, Mass. dated May 
9, 1818, which was accompanied by a root 0 
Cicuta maculata, but received after I had printed 
the article on that plant. ) 
_ © On Friday, the 17th of last ptt between 
two and three o’clock P. M. I was called to see 
a boy aged four years, in the. last struggles of 
