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leaves pubescent. 3. Rosea flowers tinged with rose 

 color, 4* Pauciflora only 5 or 6 flowers, &c. They 

 all blossom in Summer, from June to September, and 

 make a pretty appearance by their fine umbels of 

 snowy blossoms: they are bad weeds in some fields, 

 and all animals avoid them. 



In these plants, we have quite efficient substitutes 

 for the Brazilian Ipecacuana, Calicocca^ which is 

 often adulterated or old in our shops. We could even 

 export them as true Equivalents of the oificinal Ipe- 

 cacuana. The E. hypericifolia^ however, which is 

 an annual plant is available as an herb, while the 

 E^ Ipecacuana has a large root from four to six feet 

 long^ which might be exported and afforded cheap. 

 It is a singular coincidence that the name given to 

 these roots by tlie Indians of Louisiana is Feheca^ very 

 similar to the .Brazilian native name of Ipeca, both 

 meaning Emetic-root. The Psychotria emetica and 

 Viola Ipecacuana furnish also similar emetics. 



The Genus Ettphorbia has been named after Eu- 

 phorbus, physician of Juba, king of Mauritania, who 

 brought the Euphorbium or Juice of the E. offici- 

 nalis into practice. It is a very extensive and ano- 

 malous genus, divided Into many sections. Esula^ 



thymalus 



It is the 



type of the Natural Order of Thicocca or Euphor- 

 biaceous plants. Linnaeus put it in Dodeeandria 

 moJiogyniay mistaking the perianthe for a Corolla, 

 but it is now properly removed to Monoecia moiian- 

 dria. Most of the species are medical, more or less 

 drastic and emetic, but difficult to manage, and in large 



