Ii8 Auguft 1749. 



north of Montreal. The fuperior of the 

 clergy, here and feveral other people, allured 

 me that the Chinefe value the Canada Gin~ 

 Jeng as much as the Tartarian*; and that no 

 one ever had been entirely acquainted with 

 the Chinefe method of preparing it. However 

 it is thought that amongft other prepa- 

 rations they dip the roots in a decoftion of 

 the leaves of Ginfeng. The roots prepared 

 by the Chinefe are almoft tranfparent, and 

 look like horn in the infide ; and the roots 

 which are fit for ufe, muft be heavy and 

 compact in the infide. 



THE plant which throughout Canada 

 bears the name of Herba capillaris is like- 

 wife one of thcfe with which a great trade 

 is carried on in Canada. The Emglifo in 

 their plantations, call it Maiden-hair; it 

 grows in all their North- American colonies, 

 which I travelled through, and Hkewife in 

 the fouthern parts of Canada \ but I never 

 found it near Quebec. It grows in the 

 woods in fhady places and in a good foil -f*. 

 Several people in Albany and Canada, allured 

 me that its leaves were very much ufed in- 



* This is directly oppofite to Mr. OJleck's afTertion, See 

 the preceding page, 114. rote f. F. 



f It is the Adiantum pedatum of LINN, fp, pi. p. 1557- 

 Co'n-utus, in his CanadenJ\ plant, hiftoria) p. 7. calls it Adi" 

 antum Amtricar^m^ and gives together with the defcription, 

 a figure of it, p. 6. 



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