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Curtis^s Enumeration of 



Hab. sandy, open woods. Flowers in June? 



I have traced this plant through the lower part of this 

 State into Virginia and S. Carolinaj and find it constantly 

 preserving its character. The S. terebinthinaceum with 

 undivided leaves does not appear within one hundred miles 

 of the sea coast, but is abundant in the upper districis. 

 In company with it is found a variety with divided leaves 

 like that above described, differing from It only in its more 

 perfect flowers and larger size. I can discover no charac- 

 ters in these plants sufficient to constitute separate spe- 

 cies. The outline of the leaves is the same in all. In 

 otlier parts of the plants 1 can see no difference. 



(22) Podosiigma pithescens. Usually described as 

 having linear leaves, but I have not often found it with 

 that character. The lower pair are always spatulate or 

 obovatCj and only the uppermost ones linear. I have a 

 specimen a foot and a half high, with leaves more than 

 two inches long, and over half an inch wide. This is 



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above the common size of the plant, but its proportions 

 are preserved. 



(23) Gelsemium sempervirens. This beautiful climber 

 is possessed of very deleterious properties. Its odor, 

 though very agreeable, sometimes induces headache, par- 

 ticularly in a close room, and death has ensued from suck- 

 ing the flowers. A negro empiric administered a portion 

 of the root to two patients in Wilmington, one of whom 

 soon died under its effects, and the other w^as only saved 

 by the timely aid of a physician. 



(24) Gentiana Catesbcei. This species is readily dis- 

 tinguished from G. saponaria, by the long linear si 

 of the calyx and its open corolla. It is finely delineated 

 in Bigelow's Medical Botany. Tab. 70. of Catesby's 

 Carolina, represents it. 



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