IF 
ORD. VII. Hederacee. — 149 
PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUM. GINSENG, 
SYNONYMA. Ginseng. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Raii Hist. 
p. 1338. Aureliana canadensis. Lafiteau in Memoires concernant 
la precieuse plante de Ginseng. Paris, 1718. Et Hist. de L’ Acad. 
1718.p 42. Catesby’s Car. 3. p. 16. t. 16. Breyn. in Prod. rar. 
pl. 2. p. 35. Fig. ad. p. 52. Araliastrum foliis ternis quinque- 
partitis Gingseng s. Ninsin officinarum. Ehret. tabul. a Trew, 
_t. 6. fig. 1. Gin-seng Chinensibus. Jartoux Phil. Trans. vol. 
_xxviti. p. 237. Conf. Des lettres edifiantes & curieuses, tom. x. p. 
172. Araliastrum, quinquefolii folio, majus Ninsin *‘vocatum.. 
Vall. Sex. 43. ; 
Class Polygamia. Ord. Dioecia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1166. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Hermaphrod. Umbella. Cal. 5-dentatus, superus, 
_ Cor. 5-petala. Stam. 5. Styli 2. Bacca disperma. 
Masc. Umbella. Cal. integer. Cor. 5-petala. Stam. 5. 
Sp. Ch. P. foliis ternis quinatis. 
THE root is perennial, small, wrinkled, branched, ofa pale yel- 
lowish colour, and sends off many short slender fibres: the stalk is: 
erect, smooth, round, simple, tinged of a deep purple colour, and’ 
above a foot in height: the leaves arise with the flower stem from a. 
thick joint at the extremity of the stalk; they are generally three, 
but sometimes more, of the digitated kind, each dividing into five 
simple leaves, which are of an irregular oval shape, serrated, veined, 
pointed, smooth, of a deep green colour above, and stand upon 
short footstalks proceeding from a common petiolus, which is long,. 
* The plant formerly known i) this name is now understood to be the Sion: 
Ninsi, of Linneus, ’ 
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