batanically arranged. 493 



it is too dear for the common people to use. The dried roots 

 and leaves are said to be sold amongst them for three times their 

 weight in silver. The young roots are preferred to the old. 

 They collect the roots only in the spring and fall. They are 

 washed in a decoction of millet seed, and then suspended over 

 the fumes of the same liquor, in a close vessel, while it is boil- 

 ing. After this, they dry it for use ; and when dried, it be- 

 comes almost transparent. The young fibres which are taken 

 off, they boil in water, and make an extract of them, which 

 they use in the same intention with the root. From the quan- 

 tity that grows in this country, and the demand for it in the 

 East-Indies, and other parts of the world, we have reason to 

 hope it will become a valuable export. 



The indigenous plants of the twenty-fourth class, whose 

 flowers are inconspicuous, are too numerous to be described in 

 this paper. 



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