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4. SWORD LEA YD ERY NG @&, 
Plate 50. Fig. *1. 
Character of the Speci | 
e Species, Eryngium Foetidum, 
The Leaves are oblong, fword-fhap’d, faw’d and thorny. Thofe on the 
lower part of the Plant are fimple ; thofe toward the top divided. 
Tuts is a Perennial, native of North and South America, common to shan tas 
Jamaica, to Penfylvania and Peru. We are accuftomed to receive it from Jamaica, and 
have therefore placed it in {toves ; but the Plant will live and thrive in open ground, I¢ 
grows to a foot and a half high. The Stalk is weak, but tough ; of a reddith green to- 
ward the bafe, and pale upwards. The Leaves are alfo of a pale green ; and when 
bruifed have an unpleafing fcent. ‘The Flowers are {mall and white. | 
It is worth while to raife this Plant in quantity to try its virtues. The Indians, who 
have taught us more and better medicines, than we ever taught ourfelves, call it by a 
name that expreffes Fever Plant: our people in the colonies have learnt its ufe from — 
them, and extol it highly ; butI don’t know that it has ever been try’d in England. | 
5 NEEDLE ERYN GO. 
Plate so. Fig. Qe 
Charadter of the Species. =: | | | Eryngium Aquaticurii 
The Leaves are. lanc’d, ferrated, and terminate in a {trong and {lender: 
Spine, like a needle. They retain their undivided form to the top. 
| | se t OS gd Figs 2 ab, 
THIS isa Perennial, native of Virginia, and other parts of North America ; an upright, 
but not very beautiful Plant; flowering in July. The Stalk rifes to near two feet in 
heighth, and is. tough, firm, fmooth, and pale. The Leaves are of a greyifh green; 
and have a thick flefhy fubftance. ‘The Flowers are white. ; yi | | 
Tuts is another of the Plants famous among the natives of America for its medicinal 
They call it by a name which fignifies Rattle-Snake Weed. There are fe- 
veral Plants which they fuppofe to have the virtue of curing thofe who are bitten by 
venemous ferpents, and this is one, and not the leaft refpeéted among them. It is not 
ftrange their firft phyfic fhould be for the cure of bites of venomous creatures: their 
life in the woods made them always liable to thofe accidents. | 
qualities. 
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