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DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
rising out of the ground, smooth, bearing a single long- 
stalked leaf 1° high, and a shorter naked scape with 2-7 
umbels ; leaflets oblong-ovate or oval, pointed, serrate, 5 on 
each of the three divisions. Throughout the Cumberland 
Mountains, Sewanee. FI. July. The rhizome. 
Aralia quinquefolia, Decaisne & Planchon. Ginseng. Stems 
herbaceous, low, simple, bearing a whorl of 3 palmately 3-7- 
foliolated leaves and a simple umbel on a slender peduncle. 
Root large, spindle-shaped, often forked. Fruit bright red. 
Rich woodlands and hillsides. Occurs close to the city of 
Nashville on the neighboring hills. It is getting scarce, as 
it was hunted up by the “ sang-gatherers” for many years, 
for export to China. It has no market at home (except in 
homeopathy), verifying the adage that “The prophet is not 
without honor save in his own country. ” Root, collected in 
fall. 
CORNACEiE. (Dogwood Family.) 
Cornus florida, L. Dogwood. Tree, 1 2-40° high ; leaves ovate, 
pointed, acutish at the base. Flowers greenish, in a cluster, 
surrounded by a large and showy 4-leaved corolla-like, 
white (or very rarely purplish) involucre. Fruit oval, bright 
red. One of the harbingers of spring; found everywhere. 
Bark of the wood, collected in fall. 
Cornus sericea, L. Kinnikinnick. Shrub 6-10° high; branches 
purplish ; the branchlets, stalks and lower surface of the 
narrowly ovate or elliptical pointed leaves, rough with a 
harsh pubescence above, and downy beneath. Leaves op- 
posite. Flowers white, in open flat cymes. Fruit white. 
Limestone regions. Very frequent on the cliffs and rocky 
banks of the Cumberland river. FI. June. The bark. 
CAPRIFOLIACEiE. (Honeysuckle Family.) 
Sambucus Canadensis, L. Elder. A shrub, with the stems 
scarcely wooded, 5-10° high, pinnate leaves, leaflets 5-11°, 
oblong, smooth, the lower often 3-parted, emitting a rank 
smell when bruised. Flowers white, numerous, small, col- 
