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recently-masticated root, and immediately fell back into convulsions which lasted 
off and on continuously until his death. The doctor found him in a profuse sweat 
and “convulsive agitations, consisting of tremors, violent contractions and distor- 
tions, with alternate and imperfect relaxations of the whole muscular system, 
astonishing mobility of the eyeballs and eyelids, with widely-dilated pupils, stridor 
dentium, trismus, frothing at the mouth and nose, mixed with blood, and occasion- 
ally violent and genuine epilepsy.” _ The convulsive agitations were so powerful 
and incessant, that the doctor “could not examine the pulse with sufficient con- 
stancy to ascertain its character.” At the post-mortem no inflammation was 
observed, the stomach was fully distended with flatus, and contained “about 
three gills of a muciform and greenish fluid, such as had flowed from the mouth ; 
this mass assumed a dark green color on standing.” 
Descrirrios or PLATE 7: 
. Part of flowering branch; Binghamton, N. Y., July 2d, 1885. 
2. Leaf. 
