. oN irs; Rhus Radicans. 
“ as 
= a slender * Sientilins stem and frequently elites to 
of our tallest trees. The flowers, which appear in June, _ 
ed along the course of the smaller branches: they are — 
light yellow color, and have a delightful odor. The whole of — 
s plant is a most violent poison, and people in the country are — 
Or poisoned in the feet, hands, and face, oecasioning bloating © 
ion, from merely coming into the neighborhood of it. 
‘This plant has been employed internally with great success in 
curing epileptic fits, and other convulsions, and in eradicating her- 
: Sruptions: It has also been given with great success in whoop- 
_ For this purpose four grains of the extract are to be — 
in four ounces of syrup, of which one table spoonful may 
the child every third hour; which generally abates the 
From one leaf (consisting of three. fdlioles or leaflets) to 
ves may be taken in infusion for a dose ; commencing on 
est quantity. But the greatest caution is necessary in its — 
n, for its effect is very different on different constitu- 
tions; some being partially poisoned by inhaling the air by which 
it is surrounded, while others can handle it with impunity. 
. Perhaps the only purpose for which this plant should be employed, — 
ternally, is as a remedy to its external poisonous effects. 1 re- 
a circumstance which happened many years since, of which 
eye witness, which exemplified its effect in this case. A 
gina meadow, was so severely poisoned by the ivy, as 
: to-produce a general bloating and disfiguration over his body, which — 
reatened imminent danger. He was advised to take a little of the 
y internally, as a curative; he did so, and it gave him imme 
elief, freeing him from it entirely i in twodays. The follor 
me man was again badly poisoned ; and; flattering him- 
self that as so small a quantity as he had taken before, had cured» 
him in two days, a larger quantity would cure him in less time, he — 
_ eat nearly a handful of the leaves ; but the dose was fatale died 
ins six ¥ lays. 
3 Pox Root. Phytolacca Decandra. The root and peste be | 
> called pase skoke, coakum, &c. 
sis one of the most common North American plants, well a 
in New England. In the southern states it is called poke- 
weed. It has a thicks, fleshy, perrennial root, as large as parsnips ; 
from this rise many purplish herbaceous stalks, about an inch thi 
and from four to seven feet long, which break into many 
igegalenty set with large oval sharp pointed leaves, on short stems. 
are at first of a fresh green color, but as they grow oldthey 
turn reddish. At the joints and divisions ‘of the branches come forth 
long bunches of small bluish colored flowers, which are succeeded 
by round depressed berries, of a dark purple color. : 
