258 Sabbatia angularis. 
meadow grounds, but not uncommonly on hills, and in neglected 
fields. It grows abundantly in the swampy grounds near Woodbury, 
New Jersey, and on the high banks of the Schuylkill, and hilly fields, 
on the Woodlands, near this city. In the months of August and Sep- 
tember, it is brought in vast quantities to our market, by the Jersey 
people, and those who come from the neighbourhood of West- 
Chester (twenty miles from Philadelphia). Near the latter place I 
have been informed by the market people, it grows in great profu- 
sion ; and indeed this is evident from the quantities they bring of it 
for sale. Though the centaury is so much esteemed, and so uni- 
versally purchased, it is vended in large bunches at six cents each, 
owing to the abundance. 
| MEDICAL PROPERTIES. SS oi 
Centaury, like nearly all of the very natural family of Gentian, 
to which the genus belongs, is an intense bitter, every part of the 
plant equally partaking of this quality. 
