JlrfosCEttglantis Earittes. 



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and the Stalk, the top of the ftalk runs out into a fpike, 

 beiet about with Flowers like Sow Thiftle, of a blew or 

 azure colour: I brought home one of the Plants which 

 was between twelve and thirteen Foot in length, I won- 

 dered at it the more for that fo large and tall a Plant 

 mould grow from fo fmall a Root, confuting of {lender 

 white firings little bigger than Bents, and not many of 

 them, and none above a Finger long, fpreading under the 

 upper cruft of the Earth; the whole Plant is full of Milk, 

 and of a ftrono- favour. 1 



[76] The Plant token it /firings ufi firft* 



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This Plant I found in a gloomy dry Wood under an 

 Oak, 1670. the i8t/i of Aicgujl, afterwards I found it in 



1 Mulgedium Uucop/iceum, DC. (Gray, Manual, p. 241). This fine plant is 

 peculiar to America. 



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