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in circumference. There are some very 

 healthy luxurious specimens in Marshall s 

 Garden, in Chester County, Pa. 



I have been unable to determine whether 

 the A. trildba, Micliaux, is distinct. My friend, 

 Col. Carr, late proprietor of the Bartram Bo 

 tanic Garden, considers them so. I am in 

 clined to think them identical from the de 

 scriptions, and have adopted the original 

 name, as the plant I describe is so known 

 in the nurserie^. 



It is readily propagated from suckers or 

 seeds. 



ARALIA, Linnceus. Nat. Ord. Araliaceae. 

 Pentandria, Pentagynia, Linn. Calyx very 

 small, mostly 5-toothed. Petals 5, expanded 

 or reflexed at the apex. Styles very short, 

 permanent, spreading. Fruit, a berry ; usually 

 5-celled, and striated. 



A. SPINOSA, Linnceus. Stem and leaves 

 prickly. Panicles much branched. Ange 

 lica tree. Club of Hercules. 



Thinly scattered through the Middle, 

 Southern, and Western States. When full 

 grown, and covered in the fall and winter 



