NORTH AMERICA. 



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Elder. Asarahacca. Goldthread. Seneca Siiakeroot. St. John's Wort. Barberry. 



Among the wild fruits beside those already mentioned, are the Florida orange; numerous spe- 

 cies of wild grape; the wild crab-apple (iHafes coro«ar/a), and Chickasaw plum; the American 

 raspberry, blackberries, and strawberries, various whortleberries, fruits of the vacciniums (F. Rc- 

 sinosum) ; the cranberry ; the wild gooseberry and swamp gooseberry {Rihrs ci/iwsbati) ; the Ameri- 

 can elder (^Sambucus Canadensis) ; the common barberry {Berberis viilgai-is). 



Elecampane. Marsh Trefoil. Bitter Sweet. Marsh Rosemary. Gooseberry. 



Some species of the herbaceous and smaller plants in the vicinity of the Arctic circle are com- 

 mon to Europe and Siberia, but without that region there is none that is indigenous in both conti- 

 nents. In the central latitudes are three avens (^Gcums), the Canadian lily {Liliiim Canadensc), several 

 cinquefoils (Potcntilla), the columbine {Aquilegia Canadensis), several lycopodiums, the Parnassus 

 grass {Parnassia CaroUniana), various saxifrages, &lc. Among the gramineous plants the carices 

 predominate in exposed marshes. As we proceed south (between 45° and 35° of lat.), we find the 

 Cercis Canadensis conspicuous for its purple blossoms, the wax myrtle [Myrica cerifcra), the Jersey 

 tea (Ceanothus Aniericanus) , several species of sumach (Rhus), and andromeda, the leather-wood 

 [Dirca pahtstris), the divining-rod or witch-hazel {Hamamdis Virginica), noted for its pretended uses 

 in discovering spriags and mineral veins, and which puts forth its flowers at the very close of the sea- 

 son, &c. forming the underwood, and various climbing plants now make their appearance, as grapes, 

 clematis^ various species of Smilax (brier), &c. Among the herbaceous plants may be mentioned, 

 the groundsels [Senecio), epigea, the violet sorrel (Oxalis inolacea), tlie dragon-root or wild-turnip 

 {Avum triphy/ium), the wild-indigo (Baptisia tinctoria), the asclepias, or b>itterfly-weed and milk- 



