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scandens, 
F SYNGENESIA, ZQUALIS. 
FE. connatum, Mich. 
Icon. Pluk. alm. t. 87. f. 6. 
Bone-set. Thorough-wort. Cross-wort. Indian 
Sage. 
A very important plant, on account of its valuable medicinal 
virtues. (See Veg. Mat. Med. U.S.) From fifteen inches to 
three feet high. Whole plant of a grey aspect. Leaves 
united at their base: the stem appearing to go through them. 
Flowers white, rarely purple. It is not improbable that some 
other species of this large genus, willbe found possessed of me- 
dicinal virtues like the present. Inswamps, bogs, and wet 
meadows, in Jersey, and Pennsylvania side of the Delaware, 
very common and abundant. Perennial. August till October. 
S11. MIKANTA. Willd. Sp. pl. 3. p. 1142. ( Corymbifere.) 
Calix 4 or 6-leaved, equal, 4 or 6-flowered. 
fieceptacle naked. Pappus pilous. 
1, M. stem scandent, smooth; leaves cordate, re- 
pand-dentate, acuminate; lobes divaricate, un- 
equal ; flowers corymbose.— Willd. 
Eupatorium scandens, Sp. Pl. 1171. 
Icon. Jacqu. ic. rar. 1. t. 169. (Pursh.) Pluk. 
alm. t.: tb. £. 5, 
Climbing Mikania. 
A climbing plant, resembling in its flowers, which are white, 
an Eupatorium. On the stone-wall and in thickets on the 
bank of the Delaware, between Kaighn’s point and the next 
ferry below, Jersey. Perennial. July, August. 
312. CACALIA. Gen. pl. 1275. ( Corymbifere.) 
Calix cylindric, oblong, the base only some- 
what caliculate. Receptacle naked. Pap- 
pus pilous. 
atriplicifolia 1, ©. stem herbaceous; leaves petiolate, glabrous, 
glaucous beneath ; radical ones cordate-dentate, 
those of the stem rhomboid, every where sub- 


