Cleome dodecandra. 85 



are nearly all plants of offensive smell ; a circumstance which indi- 

 cates in general a deleterious or narcotic power. The species here 

 noticed, is said hy Schoepf and the late Professor Barton, to be a 

 good anthelmintic. For further information on this point, the reader 

 is referred to the third volume of my Vegetable Materia Medica 

 of the United States. 



Fig. 1. The upper portion of the plant in flower and fruit. 



2. A complete flower, separated. 



3. A petal. 



4. The petaloid calicine leaf. 



5. The calix, germ and pistil, divested of the petaloid seg- 



ment. 



6. The calix, with stamens. 



(All the size of nature.) 

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