102 SYNGENESIA, AIQUALIS. 
E. coniiatum, Mich. 
Icon. Pluk. aim. t. 87. f. 6. 
Bone-set. Thorough-wort. Cross-wort. Indian 
Sage. 
A very important plant, on account of its valuable medicinal 
virtues. (See Veg'. Mat. Med. U. S.) From fifteen inches to 
tliree feet high. Whole plant of a grey aspect. Leaves 
united at their base : the stem appearing to go through them. 
Flowers white, rarely purple. It is not improbable that some 
other species of this large genus, willbe foundpossessed of me- 
dicinal virtues like the present. In swamps, bogs, and wet 
meadows, in Jersey, and Pennsylvania side of the Delaware, 
\ ery common and abundant. Perennial. August till October. 
311. MIKANIA. Willd. Sp. pi. 3. p. 1142. {Corymbifera.) 
Calix 4 or 6-leaved^ equals 4 or 6-flowered. 
Receptacle naked. Pappus pilous. 
scandens. stem scandeiit, smooth; leaves cordate, re» 
pand-deritate, acuminate; lobes divaricate, un- 
equal ; flowers corymbose. — JVilld. 
Eupatorium scandens, Sp. PI. 1171. 
Icon. Jacqu. ic. rar. 1. t. 169. (Pursh.) Pluk. 
aim. t. 163. f. 3. 
Climbing Mikania. 
A climbing plant, resembling in its flowers, which are white, 
an Eupatorium. On the stone-wall and in thickets on the 
bank of the Delaware, between Kaighn’s point and the next 
ferry below, Jersey. Perennial. July, August. 
312. GACALIA. Gen.pl. 1275. (^Coryinbifera,) 
Calix cylindric, oblong, the base only some 
what caliculate. Receptacle naked. Pap- 
pus pilous. 
atripUcifoKa. 1 . C. Stem herbaceous ; leaves petiolate, glabrous, 
glaucous beneath j radical ones cordate-dentate, 
those of the stem rhomboid, every where sub- 
