212 Lobelia siphilitica. 
coction, or if deep and foul, to be sprinkled with the powder of the 
inner bark of the New Jersey tea-tree, (Ceanothus Americanus, )??* 
This plan is said to cure the disease ina very short time; but we have 
already given sufficient reasons for want of confidence in it. 
TABLE XLVII. 
Fig. 1. Represents the upper portion of Lobelia siphilitica, in flower. 
2, An outline of a leaf near the bottom. 
3. A flower separated, with the leaf always appended to the 
peduncle. 
4. The corolla, cut open. 
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5. The calix, with the column of stamens and pistil. 
6. The pistil and germ. 
(All the size of nature.) © 
* Woodville, Med. Bot. 
