432 Mr. CurLEn's Account of indigengus Vegetables, 
pETTTMORREL. Life.of Man: Bloffoms -greenifh white. 
Berries black. ‘In moift, rich wood land. July. +- 
It is aromatic. The berries give {pirits an agreeable Ber. 
The bark of the root and berries are a good ftomachic. It is. 
faid to have been much ufed by the Indians for medical pur- 
pofes, 
Aralia, ad dra fom ut | 
SARSAPARILLA. The rootsextend a long way juft under the 
furface of the ground. Stems naked ; divided into three leaf- 
ftalks. Leaves ovate ; acuminated 5 ferrated ; three or five on a 
leaf-ftalk, in a winged form. Blofloms in a globular umbel, 
rifing from the axi//æ of the leaf-ftalks ; white. Pi red. 
Common in loamy wood land. May. 
The roots SOROR Mic and nutritious. They- have been found 
beneficial in debilitated habits. It is faid the Indians would fub- 
fift upon them, fol a ong time, in their war and hunting ex- 
Curfons. They make an ingredient in diet drinks. 
STATICE? Linn. Gen. Plant. 448, 
is caule nudo paniculato tereti, foliis levibus. Syk. 
MARSH ROSEMARY. Blofloms blue. Common in marfhes. 
July. 
. The roots are. powerfully aftringent. A decoction of them ` 
is given, and ufed as a gargle, with faccefs, i in cankers and ul- 
cerated fore throats. 
| DROSERA. Linn. Gen. Plant. 451. 
Drofera feapis radicatis, foliis orbiculatis. | Syft. Nat. 
SUNDEW. Rofa Solis.  Bloffoms white. In mofly mea- 
@ows. July—Augutt, | 
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