: _ ARATIACER. 
a r ali ta ds. 
N. ue 8. 
PANAX QUINQUEFoLIUM. 
Bees Red-berry, Five fingers, Me Fc. 
¢—North America, 
iS Quality—Sweetish, aromatic. 
_ Power—Stimulant, antispasmodic, 
Use—Nervous affections, debility. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Natural Order. Hederacern—L. Araliacen—J. 
Crass V. Pentandria, OrvEer Digynia. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 1124. Woodv. Med. Bot. 2d Ed. 149 t 58. Loudon Ency. P, 
ey Bigelow Med. Bot. ii. 82._Linn. Sp. Pi. 393. _ U.S. Dis. 530. Raff. Med. Bot 
53. Per. El. Mat. Med. ii. 474. Griff. Med. Bot. 344. Kost. Mat. Med. 518, 
Tor, and Gray Fl. i. 646. Wood. C. B. 295 
— PANAX. 
From the Greek Tay all, and axas a remedy supposed to be a panacea or universal 
remedy. 
Synonymrs.—Ginseng d@Amerique (Fr.) Ginsang (Jt.) Kraftwurzel (Ger.) 
THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. 
@aryx. Superior, entire, or toothed. 
Corotta, Petals five—ten deciduous, rarely wanting, valvate 
in eestivation. 
Sramens. Equal in number to the petals, and alternate with 
them. <Anthers introrse. 
Ovary. Crowned with a disk, two or many celled. Ovutes : i 
solitary Styles as many as the cells. 
Frum, Baccate or * spate of several onersoedo cells. 
