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Memoir on the SubjeEl of a new Plant, growing in Penn- 

 fylvania, particularly in the Vicinity of Philadelphia^ 

 by Mr. Beauvois. 



ReadAuguft A MONG the many obfervations I have 

 21. 1795- /~\ hitherto made on the natural produdlions 

 of this country, there is one which appears worthy of 

 being prefented to you. This I do after having often 

 repeated my obfervations on the plant both in the fields 

 and in my own chamber, where 1 have preferved it thefe 

 two months. 



The firft time I faw this plant, was near "Wilmington 

 in a ditch continually wet, fince which I have found it 

 between Reading and Pottfgrove, and latterly near this 

 city, where it is very common, growing as it were under 

 our eyes ; we trample it under our feet j the cattle feed 

 greedily on it, and yet it is unknown among botanifts, 

 none of whom having publiflied any defcription of it. 

 Whether it poffeffes any medicinal virtues or not I cannot 

 fay. I have many times tailed it, and always found it 

 infipid. 



Although the filence of botanifts on fo common a 



plant, authorifes me to prefent it to you as a difcovery of 



my own, yet I fhall not attach fo high a value to the 



Z pretended 



