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face, where they float, as if they were dead, the larger 
ones, however, recover, but the smaller fry are destroy- 
ed. The tincture of the bark, indeed, is found to be an 
intense narcotic, and has been employed beneficially to 
relieve the pain produced by carious teeth. Jacquin 
observes that this quality of intoxicating fish is found in 
many other American plants. Tephrosia toxicaria of 
South America and T. piscatoria of India and the South 
Sea Islands, both plants of the same family with the 
present, likewise possess the faculty of intoxicating fish. 
Plate LII. 
A branch of the natural size. a. The flowers and young pods. 
b. The more perfect pod. 
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