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edges ; having short slender foot stalks, and placed 

 alternately. The flowers come out at the bosom of 

 the leaves in small corymbi or clusters; of an her- 

 baceous colour. They are succeeded by roundish 

 berries of a red colour when ripe, and remaining 

 long on the branches. 



The virtues of this excellent shrub when joined 

 with the cornus florida, or dog- wood, in the inter- 

 mittent, are well known. But it is also a powerful 

 remedy in mortifications. A decoction of the bark 

 mixed with spirits and flour is to be applied to the 

 parts, and the decoction taken freely. 



The poisonous datura stramonium^ or Jamestown 

 weed, is not without its virtues. An ointment pre- 

 pared by boiling the leaves with hog's lard is a su- 

 perior remedy in burns and scalds ; and an extract 

 from the leaves has been used with great advantage 

 in that awful disease, the epilepsy. 



The asclefiias decumbens', butterfly weed, or pleu- 

 risy root, is a powerful diuretic, and will doubtless 

 become one of our standard remedies. 



Kalmia latifolia^ or broad-leaved laurel, winter 

 green, callico tree. 



This is the largest of all the species of this genus, 

 growing to the height of seven or eight feet, and 

 sometimes higher. The wood is hard, compact, 

 and is employed by turners and joiners in making 

 work requiring such wood. It also furnishes han« 

 dies for scythes. The leaves are highly poisonous 

 to horses, but deer, and the pheasant eat them with 

 impunity. They however, when eaten late in the 

 winter by pheasants, once communicated a quality 

 to the flesh of these birds, which occasioned alarm- 



