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MEMORANDA. 
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GriwsENG-RooT (Panax Ginseng, Meyer.).—The Ginseng has been known 
m time immemorial as a drug, employed by the Chinese as a panacea for 
Ussuri district). In a northerly direction the plant has been met with as far 
as latitude 47° N., and it is besides cultivated by the Chinese on the Upper 
Ussuri, at Situchu, Lifulé, and Daubichá. The illustration given (plate 375) 
h made from the most complete buolned existing in European herbaria, 
sent a long time ago by Kirilow, Collector for the "un digg Gardens at St. 
Petersburg, from Chinese Manchuria. The Ch y the root as well as 
the stem and leaves, preparing from it by boiling a thickened juice, which is 
used for wounds, pains of the stomach, etc. The extraordinary healing power 
of his party cut off a finger with an axe; an ointment made of Ginseng being 
Applied, the aeara healed in a "n man time. A careful comparison of the 
g a shows that the former differs by its 
Sii ih ng fi fi illate l the leaflets of which are broader 
towards the base than those of the Asiatic Ginseng. Other differences of the 
North American plant consist in usually deeper and less regular dentation of 
the leaflets, in the peduncle being about as long as the petioles or extending 
afterwa bout half the length of the leaflets, and in the styles being free 
almost to the very base. The Asiatic Ginseng, tied in bundles and prepared, 
gardens. 
the seeds sent home have germinated, and there is difficulty in obtaining either 
ants, as the Chinese, for fear of spoiling their trade, refuse to 
— them. The cultivation of the root would probably succeed in Germany 
en about St. Petersburg (E. Regel, Gartenflora, 1862, p. 314, t. 375). 
Regel. believes this to be merely a variety of the North American Panaw quinque- 
— which he names Ginseng, and of which he furnishes the following diagnosis : 
ce fusiformi ; foliis caulinis quaternis digitato-partitis, foliolis 5 elliptico- 
oblongis, in petiolum attenuatis, acum inatis, du uplicato-den ntatis, g bris, spes 
n 
plici, multiradiata; baccis didymis, 2-spermis, stylo apice tantum bilobo coro- 
natis. 
