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Substitutes — Snakeroots — Myrrh — Spikenard 



Squ il I Asarabaca — Sassafras — Tol u — ^pocy n um 



androsemifoliiim Liquorice — .-Ginsehg Many 



other Swallow-worts, &c. 



Remarks — It may be useful to notice some other 

 species possessing the same properties. 



«^. syriaca or common Silkw^ed, grows all over 

 the United States near streams ; it has large oblong 

 opposite leaves, white beneath, and large globular 

 umbels of sweet scented flowers of a lilac color. 



•^. incarnatay grows also near streams every 

 where, has lanceolate leaves, opposite and acute ; 

 ilowers flesh colored or red, scentless. 



A. acuminata^ also near streams in New-Jersey, 

 &c. with opposite ovate acuminate leaves, flowers red 

 and white. 



A. quadrifolia y from New-York to Kentucky in 

 woods, beautiful little plant with leaves like the fore- 

 going, but four in a whorl, flowers flesh coloured and 



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very fragrant. 



Henry calls our plant ^. decumbenSj but his fi- 

 gure is a very bad one of ^. incarnata. 



