74 Gillenia stipulacea. 
é Gillenia stipulacea begins to appear south-westward on the 
high gravelly banks of the Ohio, soon after passing the confluence+ 
of the Muskingum; Here we no more meet with the G. trifoliata 
of the mountains and the eastern states, which it so much re- 
sembles, as to be almost uniformly confounded with it by most of the 
western botanists ; continuing along the whole course of the Ohio 
we also find it, occupying the soils and situations of G. trifoliata 
throughout the Illinois, Indiana, and Louisiana, where I first became 
acquainted with it, in the neighbourhood of St. Louis. It does. not, 
_ however, continue far up the Missouri. Its medicinal properties 
ss “are, it pe: be presumed, very similar to those of the G. trifoliata ; 
“and it is ee the only species made use of by the wemern phy- 
- sicians,’ 
_» The G. stipulacea, according to the remarks on the sketch 
made by Dr Campbell, is found in “Virginia, most abundantly in the 
woods west-south-west of Parkersburg. Fifteen miles west of Ma- 
Tietta, on the Athens road, it commences, and abounds in company 
with a great abundance of Columbo ;’ (1 presume, Frasera verticil- 
ia “also at. t Bellville.’ - e” 
G. sipulacea flowers in June. 
_. The variety marked ¢. incisa by Pursh, and which he deseribes 
« 4 foliis ternatis, foliolis pinnatifidis inciso-dentatis,” I strongly sus- 
pect to be nothing more than the lower portions of our plant; and 
