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GEORGIA BARK. 
this bark is substituted for gall nuts : Put I an ounce of Dogwood bark, 2 
scruples of sulphate of iron, and 2 scruples of gum arable, into 16 ounces 
of rain wmter ; during the infusion, shake it repeatedly. 
The Dogwood merits the attention of Europeans, for the value of its 
wood, and especially for the brilliancy of its flowers, by which it is better 
adapted than almost any other North American tree to the embellishment 
of forests, parks, and extensive gardens. 
PLATE XLVIII. 
A branch with leaves and flowers of the natural size. Fig. 1, A branch 
with fruit of the natural size. 
[From the bark of the smaller roots the Indians obtained a good scarlet 
color. The smaller branches, stripped of their bark, and used as a brush, 
are said to render the teeth extremely white. Emerson.] 
GEORGIA BARK. 
Pentandria monogynia. Linn. Rubiaceae. Juss. 
PiNCKNEYA PUBENS. P.folUs oppositis, ovalibus, utrinque acutis ; subtomentosis. 
Obs. Floribus majusculis, pallentibus et purpureo-lineatis, fasciculato-paniculatis. 
Capsulis subrotundis, modicè compressis; seminibusnunierosisalatis. 
This tree, still more interesting by the properties of its bark, than by the 
elegance of its flowers and of its foliage, is indigenous to the most southern 
parts of the United States ; probably it grows also in the two Floridas and 
in Lower Louisiana. My father found it for the first time in 1791 on the 
banks of the St. Mary. He carried seeds and young plants to Charleston, 
and planted them in a garden which he possessed near that city. Though 
entrusted to an ungrateful soil, they succeeded so well, that in 1807 I found 
several of them 25 feet high, and 7 or 8 inches in diameter ; which proves 
that the vegetation of this tree does not require a very warm climate, nor a 
very substantial soil. 
