around New Bern, N. C. 45 



interesting species, and seemingly rare ; apex of the leaf glan- 

 dular. It has been recently found in Middle Florida, by Dr. 

 A. W. Chapman ! 



(38.) Kalmia cuneata, Michx.fi. Bor. Am. Flowers white. 

 On the border of a sphagnous morass on the north side of the 

 Neuse. This seems to be a rare species. 



(39.) Ilex vomitoria, Ait.=l\vt. Cassena, Walt. ; MX. ; Ell. 

 non Linn. The specific name which Aiton first applied to this 

 plant is not, perhaps, the most appropriate ; for although a strong 

 decoction of the fresh plant acts as a mild emetic, yet, in a pre- 

 pared state, it is, even at the present day, extensively used as a 

 tea, on the coast of North Carolina, under the name of Yaupon ; 

 a custom, which, together with the name, was borrowed by the 

 whites from the aboriginal inhabitants. Lawson, in his account 

 of Carolina, (pp. 90 91, London, 1709,) celebrates the virtues 

 of this tea, and gives a particular account of the mode of pre- 

 paring it. " This plant, (the Yaupon, called by the South 

 Carolina Indians Cassena} is the Indian tea, used and approved 

 by all the savages on the coast of Carolina, and from them sent 

 to the Westward Indians, and sold at a considerable price." 1 

 " The savages of Carolina have this tea in veneration above all 

 the plants they are acquainted withal." p. 221. " As for purg- 

 ings and emetics they never apply themselves to, unless in 

 drinking vast quantities of their Yaupon, or tea, and vomiting it 

 up again, as clear as they drink it." In North Carolina it is still 

 esteemed a useful diaphoretic. A species of this genus, Ilex 

 Paraguensis, affords the famous mate, or tea of Paraguay. 



(40.) Mitreola ophiorhizoides, Richard OphiorhJza Mitreola, 

 Michx, ; Pursh ; Ell. ; not of Swartz, whose plant belongs to 

 Rubiacetz, while ours belongs to Gentianaceee. Torrey in lit. 



(41.) Mitreola lanceolata, Torr. M<S.=Ophiorhizalanceolata, 

 Ell. 



(42.) Catalpa cordifolia, Du Hamcl.=EignoDia Catalpa, 

 Linn. Indigenous on Little River, a tributary of the Oclockony, 

 in Middle Florida ! and on the Appalachicola river ! On the 

 Chattohochie river. Nuttall, flor. Arkan. Also on the Chocta- 

 whatchee and Conechu rivers. Ellicotfs Journal. See Cates- 

 by's Carolina, I. 49. 



(43.) Convolvulus coccineus, Spreng.=Ipom<Ea coccinea, 



