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experience he knew' that it did not grow in the 

 northerly parts. I have never found it more than 

 fifteen min. north of forty-three deg. The time 

 of the year when it comes up in Penfyfoania, is 

 fo late, that its feed has but juft time fufficient to 

 ripen in, and it therefore feems unlikely that it 

 can fucceed further north. Mr. Eartram was 

 the firfl who difcovered it, and fent it over into 

 Europe. Mr. Juffieu^ during his flay at London, 

 and Dr. Linnaus afterwards, called it ColIinJontA, 

 from the celebrated Mr. Peter Collinfon, a mer- 

 chant in London, and fellow of the Englijh and 

 Swedijh Royal Societies* He well deferved the 

 honour of having a plant called after his name, 

 for there are few people that have promoted na- 

 tural hiftory and all ufeful fciences with a zeal 

 like his; or that have done as much as he to- 

 wards collecting, cultivating, and making known 

 all forts of plants. The GolUnfonia has a pecu- 

 liar fcenr, which is agreeable, but very ftrong. 

 It always gave me a pretty violent head-ach 

 whenever I pafled by a place where it flood in 

 plenty, and efpecially when it was in flower^ 

 Mr. Eartram was acquainted with a better qua- 

 lity of this plant, which was that of being an ex- 

 cellent remedy againft all forts of pain in the 

 limbs, and againft a cold, when the parts affedted 

 are rubbed with it. And Mr. Conrad Weijfer, in- 

 terpreter of the language of the Indians in Pen- 

 fyfoania, had told him of a more wonderful cure 

 with this plant. He was once among a com- 

 pany of Indians, one of which had been flung by 

 a rattle-fnake, the favages gave him over; but he 

 boiled the collinfonia, and made the poor wretch 



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