ON  GELSEMTNUM  SEMPER VIKENS. 
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ON  GELSEMINUM  SEMPERVIRENS. 
By  M.  Henry  Kollock. 
(^Extracted  from  an  Inaugural  Essay  presented  to  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy.') 
Gelseminum  sempervirens.    Yellow  Jessamine.     Wild  Jessa- 
mine. Woodbine. 
Sex.  Syst.  Pentandria  digynia.     Nat.  Ord.  Apocynacese. 
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Terminal  flowering  branch  of  Gelseminurn  sempervirens. 
History.—"  This  plant,  the  Bignonia  nitidum  of  Michaux  and 
Pursh,  has  a  smooth,  twining,  glabrous  stem,  with  leaves  dark 
green  above,  paler  beneath,  entire,  lanceolate,  perennial  and 
opposite  ;  short  petioles,  and  bears  yellow  flowers  having  an  agree- 
able but  rather  narcotic  odor." 
