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HEALTHWORT. 
PANG X, 
Generic Character. 
The Head is broad dnd flat; the general Cup is thot, and cotpofed of 
narrow fharp pointed Laabes: the feparate Flowers are taifed upon long 
Footftalks, and are coniplliad each of five Petals, which turn back at the 
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Plate 12,0.4b6 
Tus is the charaGter of the Seed- -bearing or Female Plants; there are befide thefé 
Male Plants of the fame Species, whofe Head is globular. 
FERRE LEAVED Hb AIT. HWORT: 
3 Plate 12. Fig. 1 | GINSENG, 
Character of the Species. Panax Quinguefolium, 
‘The Leaves ftand by threes; and each diviGo ion is into five. 
Fig. 1.ab, 
- Tus is a Perennial, native of Tartary; and of Canada, Virginia, and other places in 
North America; a Plant of wonderful eftimation in many parts of the world. It grows 
to a foot or more in heighth. The Stalk is ting’d with crimfon; the Leaves are of a 
frefh and bright green ; the Flowers are white ; after thefe come Berries of a Kidney= 
like fhape, and of a ftrong crimfon, full of errs. pulp, in each are two Seeds. It 
flowers in Auguft. 
Tus is the Plant whofe Root is the famous Ginfeng, of which the Chinefe think fuch 
wonders : they efteem it a cure for aloft all difeafes ; and fancy it will make men any 
thing but immortal. It has been try’d with us, and is found a cordial and reftorative, but 
its virtues by no means anfwer the Chinefe accounts. 
Try might well be deceived who looked for the fame virtues in the Root Nindf, 
which is a Species of an umbelliferous Plant Sium, altogether different from this. We 
have it ufually ftale and bad, and to encreafe the difappointment of thofe who have fome- 
times thought of taking it, we have found that when it has been bought at its weight in 
gold, the ingenious Chinefe has lodged lead in its middle to encreafe the profit. 
a. 5 2.8 ELS LEAVED HEALTHWORT 
| | Plate 12. Fig. 2. oe es 
Chara&ter of the Species, 3 Panax Trifolium, 
The Leaves ftand by threes ; and each eee. is into threes again. 
| | Fig. 2. @ b. 
Tuts isa Perennial, native of Virginia, a low Plant, flowering in July. The Stalk is 
pale ; the Leaves are of a faint and yellowith green ; the Flowers are white; the Root has | 
the parour of the other, but weakly. 
3 WOODY HEALTHWORT. 
Plate 12. Fig. 3. 
Charaéter of the Species, Pies F ruticofini. 
The Stem is woody ; the Leaves are four times winged ; and eyelafhed. 
~ 'Thisisa Worenaid: native of the Ifland of Ternate ; a little woody Plant of two foot 
high ; branchy and fpreading. The Stem is of a deep brown ; the young Shoots are olive- 
coloured. The Leaves are of a freth green ; and the Flowers are white. 
G -— AGGREGATES. 
