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tafte, which they lofe in great meafure up«* 

 on boiling. 



The Sarothra Gentianoides, grows abun- 

 dantly in the fields and under the bumes, 

 in a dry fandy ground near Philadelphia, 

 It looks extremely like our whortleberry 

 bumes when they nrft begin to green, and 

 when the points of the leaves are yet red. 

 Mr. Bar tram has fent this plant to Dr. 

 Dillenius, but that gentleman did not know 

 where he mould range it. It is reckoned 

 a very good traumatic, and this quality Mr. 

 Bartram himfelf experienced -, for being 

 thrown and kicked by a vicious horfe, in fuch 

 a manner as to have both his thighs greatly 

 hurt, he boiled the Sarothra and applied 

 it to his wounds. It not only immediately 

 appeafed his pain, which before had been 

 very violent, but he likewife by its affift- 

 ance recovered in a fhort time. 



Having read in Mr. Millers Botanical 

 Dictionary, that Mr. Peter Collinjon had a 

 particular Larch tree from America in his 

 garden, I afked Mr. Bartram whether he 

 was acquainted with it, he anfwered, that 

 he had fent it himfelf to Mr. Collinjon, 

 that it only grew in the eaftern parts of 

 New Jerfey, and that he had met with it 

 in no other Englijh plantation. It differs 

 from the other fpecies of Larch trees, its 



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