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ers four or five, more or fewer, cluftering together in pale 

 long green husks milk white, confifting of ten fmall 

 Leaves, fnipt a little on the edges with purple hair threads 

 in the midft; the whole Plant is of a brakilh tall: When it 

 is at its full growth the ftalks are as red as Blood. 1 



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1 Nabalus alius (L.) Hook. (Snake-weed) : the genus peculiar to America. 



