Eupatorium perfoliatum. 127 
SYNONYMA. 
EvpaToriuM Virginianum, Salvi foliis, &c. Pluk. 
EvpatrorivuM foliis connatis tomentosis. Cutler. 
EvpaToriuM connatum. Mich, 
PHARM. 
Evpavr. perfol. Herba et flores—the flowers and leaves. 
Tue subject of this article is wholly destitute of any thing like 
comliness, but is a very general favourite and will probably always 
be highly esteemed, for its medicinal powers. The plant which 
gave name to the very extensive genus of which the Bone-set is 
a species, is the «»+#!«s:«, of Dioscorides, from Mithridates, sur- 
named Eupator, who is reputed to have brought the original plant 
into use as an antidote against poisons. Most of the species, of 
which Willdenow enumerates seventy-one, are indigenous to Ame- 
rica. Pursh describes twenty-seven as natives of North America; 
and others will be found extending beyond the tropics as far as 
Peru and Paraguay. Those indigenous to our states, are all plain 
looking plants, except the E. ceelestinum, the beautiful blue flowers 
of which have given rise to the appropriate specific name, Many of 
them, however, compensate in stature for what they want in beauty; 
