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The X. clava of the South has all the same properties, 

 and even to a higher degree. The chewed bark is said 

 to cure tooth-ache in a zew minutes, to be beneficial in 

 sore throat and mouth, also in palsj of the tongue or anj 

 muscle of the throat. In the West Indies, where it is 

 called Prickly Yellow Wood, the wood, bark and roots 

 are deemed excellent internally and externally in syphi- 

 litic complaints and ulcers ; wonderful cures have been 

 performed there and with us by the herbalists, of vene- 

 real buboes, venereal sorethroat, crab yaws, malignant 

 and phagedenic ulcers, &c. It appears also a valuable 

 remedy in epilepsy and dry belly-ache, nay, is said to 

 have cured fevers like Peruvian Bark. The juice of the 

 roots or their decoction was chiefly used. The X.fraxi- 

 neum has probably all the same effects- 



The X glandulosum {Pseudopetalon) of Louisiana, a 

 tree 40 feet high, has a white bark, of a strong smell and 

 burning taste : it is used for aromatic baths, to cure 

 rheumatism j delicate persons are apt to feel indisposed 

 by its use. The roots are employed successfully as a 

 vermifuge for horses. This tree will be known bjr its 

 terminal digynous flowers. Many ignorant herbalists, 

 and even Zollickoffer, call likewise Prickly Ash, the 

 Jlralia Spinosa, whose true name is Prickly Elder or 

 Angelica tree, and use them indifferently. But the 

 Aralia^ although a valuable stimulant, diaphoretic and 

 even emetic, has by no means all the properties of this 

 shrub, 



N. B. This concludes the first part of this work, or 

 the selected articles ; but two articles omitted in the 

 alphabetical series of the first volume, will be added in 

 a supplement, after which shall follow the monograph/ 

 of the Vitis or American Grape Vines, with 8 figures* 



