Euphorbia Ipecacuanta. Eh 245 tits 
used, it may be collected for medical purposes, at any time. 1 have ; 
found it equally efficacious, dug up in April and September. 
The Euphorbia portulacoides, described by Kalm, and Linnzeus and ‘ 
others on his authority, as growing “ in Philadelphia,” is, I strong- 
ly suspect, nothing more than the oval-leaved variety of the E. Ipe- 
cacuanha, Iam the more inclined to this belief, from the circum- 
stance of Linneus, Willdenow, Kalm, and others, having described. 
the E. Ipecacuanha, with only lanceolate leaves. This, we know, 
is rather a rare variety in the leaves of our plant. But further, I do 
not learn that any American botanist is acquainted with ae, plot ges 
termed E. portulacoides. 
MEDICAL PROPERTIES. 
It is not without great satisfaction that I now present the medi- 
cal profession, with a figure and history of an indigenous plant, which 
promises to yield a medicine, equal in importance, if not on some 
accounts superior, to the common Ipecacuanha of the shops. That 
the Euphorbia Ipecacuanha is- possessed of virtues entitling it to 
supersede the use of the imported Ipecacuanha, my own extensive 
experience with it, corroborated bythe numerous trials of the medi- 
