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They are palatable and allay thirst when chewed by 

 the hunters in want of water. 



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Locality — The Alleghany mountains, and the 

 hills and valleys diverging from them, as far as their 

 most southern limits in Georgia and Alabama ; but 

 seldom met north of Virginia and Kentucky, although 

 Schoepf gives New York as its northern ran^e. It 

 is unknown in the alluvial and limestone regions. 



Qualities — A fine acid, (is it the malic acid ?) 

 similar to that of the cranberries and whortleberries 

 is diffused throughout this tree, and most unfolded in 

 the leaves ; but united to some astringency owing to 

 a mixture of gallic acid. 



PROPERTIES— The leaves and wood are a fine 

 astringent acid, refreshing, cooling, allaying thirst, 

 and antifebrile, Clayton says that a decoction of 

 the leaves mitigates the ardour of fevers, and helps 

 their cure. It is useful in all cases where a refriae- 

 rant astringent is needed. A kind of lemonade can 

 be made with it* It may be substituted to the Rhus 



glabrum^ov shumac, and the cranbeiries. Like shu- 

 mac the leaves impart a black color to wool- The wood 

 is soft, reddish, and will not burn j but like the buck- 

 eye wood may be used to make chip hats and paper. 



Substitutes — Shumac berries — Pomegranate 

 Strawberries — Cranberries — Currants — Sorrels^&c. 

 with many other mrld vegetable astringents and adds. 



B. Barton mentions the J3. Mariana 

 another species as pernicious, but a decoction of it 



REMARKS 



useful in ulcers of the feet, for which this might be 



perhaps substituted. 



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