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156 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
large umbellulate panicles ; peduncles pubescent Involucels of several short subulate . 
leaflets. Calyx with 5 small acute teeth. Petals greenish white. Styles united below ; 
‘ wen diverging or recu Berries small, not 0s, dark purple when mature. 
Rich 
woodlands : Ca ane Georgia ; and in gardens, cultivated. Fl. July. Fr. Sep- 
“Obs. This gs is native in our rich woodlands ; but has been long 
introduced into gardens, as a popular medicine. The root, and | berries 
infused in aleohel made a favorite tincture, in times past, r those 
who indulged in the eriiots in ha 2 of taking such stomachics. 
2, A. spino’sa, L. Shrub or low tree; stem and petioles prickly ; 
leaves bipinnately compound ; pa i in a very large much-branched 
panicle. 
Prickty Arata. Angelica Tree. Hercules’ Club. 
Stem unbranched, me kly below, 10-20 and even - fees rip — crowded at the 
summit of the stem, 2-4 feet long ; leaflets ovate, ac 
below. Flowers white. 
Pennsylvania, South and West. June at 
Obs. This striking species is times seen in gabe 965 at the 
North it is a low tree, but in the ; eae States it sometimes attains 
the height of 40 or even 60 feet, its unbranched stems entelk the 
crowded leaves at their summits, having a palm-like appearance. The 
bark, root, and berries, have been used in medicine ; they are aromatic 
and stimulant like those of the preceding species. 
8, A. nudicau’lis, L. Stem very short, scarcely rising above ground ; 
mivieng a single long-stalked leaf, and a shorter naked scape, with 2— i 
Naxep-stem Ararta. Sarsaparilla. False Sarsaparilla. 
Root creeping, thickish and long, somewhat aromatic but mawkish. Stem se 
more than the crown of the root. Leaf on an erect reg tole 6-12 inches long, Brmrtad ! 
summit ; each division oe inches in length, and be: oa yA ae cad nate subsessile leaflets. 
Scape 4—8 in inches high, divided at summit into 2- , about 2 inches 
long, each age ng a pag Pree many-flowered, globose uinbel, an inch or an inch and abalf 
in diameter. Berries torulose, purplish black when matu 
Obs. The root of this is sometimes used as a substitute for the Sarsa- 
‘parilla of the shops, yt species of aa SAS I believe both the original 
rather innocent cines,—provided the dis- 
and the aersener pe 
4. . aaitieele olia, Gray. Root fusiform, cenit branched ; leaflets 
mostly in fives, obovate, acuminate, unequally | serrate, petiolulatej pe- 
inchs of the oe bel rather shorter than the common petioles ; styles 23 
ed, 2-seeded. 
- fruit succulen’ 
oe eons Ginseng, 
