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longitudinal veins running from the footstalk to the 

 point, and diverging in the broad part of the leaves 

 from each other ; the leaves are placed opposite^ 

 are deciduous, and of a light green colour. At the 

 extremity of each shoot the flowers are produced in 

 close thick spikes, and are composed of five small 

 petals of a clear white. These appear in June. 

 During the American revolutionary war, the leaves 

 of this shrub were dried and used as a substitute for 

 common tea^ The plant is said to dye wool a fine 

 strong nanking cinnamon colour. 



Convolvulus* There are several species of this 

 genus,6natives of the United States ; at present the 



fianduratus only will be noticed. It is called wild 

 potatoe in Carolina. This root is perennial, thick 

 and long like that of a carrot. Capsule two-ceiled 

 and two-seeded. This species grows very plentifully 

 about Bethlehem ; the roots are purgative, and are 

 collected and sold, according to Shoepf, for mechoa- 

 canna. They are said to be escharotic, and useful to 

 takedown proud or fungous flesh in sores. 



Eufihorbia^ ifiecacuanha^ Linn. This plant is pe- 

 culiar to light, dry, sandy soils, and grows abundantly 

 in New Jersey, and the maritime districts of the 

 southern states- It is a pretty plant, the stems rather 

 procumbent and difliisive in their manner of growth, 

 leaves remarkably variable in their figure, but gene- 

 rally oblong or broad lanceolate, whilst others are 

 long and narrow, some almost linear like grass ; but 

 all are of a full, dark, crimson colour, except such as 

 grow in shade, which are of a livid green, elegantly 

 reticulated with crimson veins. In medicine it is a 



