x ROOT FOUND IN SENEGA. 257 
but its sensible properties and characters are the same as those 
of the root of the Gillenia trifoliata. By comparing it 
with the specimens of the latter contained in the cabinet of 
the College, their identity is placed almost beyond a doubt, 
and the fact that the Gillenia grows in the same localities 
as Senega is further evidence. 
Your Committee have made diligent inquiry among the 
wholesale drug dealers, but have been unable to trace its 
origin. 
From the house whence issued, the only information 
elicited was that it was obtained at a public sale, at a time 
when they were short of their usual supply. Your Com- 
mittee believing that the main object (that of directing 
attention to its existence,) is now fulfilled, ask to be dis- 
charged. 
Augustine Duhamel, 
William Procter, Jr. 
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