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(seq. 56)
52 along pedicle on whh stands 3 leves each having distinct pedicles. All ye branches terminate with flowers on prety long round flower stalks. It has much ye appearance of Sanicle. The leaves have a preaty smart, pungent acid tast but agreeable, & leaves a conside pungency or smartness on ye tong for some times. Grows in Bill Dodges wood.
June 3d No. 108 Cure-all — Throat-root — (more acurately discribed)
Calix — flower Cup or perianth — The base spreading — divided into 5 deeply serated acuminated sess divided, acumi= nated peta leaves inclined inward. at ye bottom of in each of ye fissures stand very small promonent spear shaped leaves. Cup of a dark red colour, hairy.
Corol — 5 Petals inverted heart shaped — or rather blunted at ye end — see size & shape. [drawing] yellow with red veins. ye claws inserted into ye Cup agst each sinus , closing on each other at ye apex & turned inclining inwards.
Stam. Numerous, subulated, erect filaments shorter yn ye corol. & rise prominently? from ye extended base of ye cup — very near together & much like ye teeth of
(seq. 57)
53 of an hetchel. # Anth. roundish, concave a deep fissure on ye external part, the filament rise curled in but, when fully grown, erect — ye point of ye filament inserted into ye center of ye concave of ye anthera. # In regular rows from ye center to ye circumference of ye Cup & believe regular ye other way — but am not certain Pistil Pistil — from ye center of ye Cup rises a cylindrical receptical of ye germa. or seeds, bare for 2 10th inch — only numerous small hairs — On the upper part stands numerous oblong flatish seeds covered with small hairs — or possible may be capsule but think not — from each seed rises a long fol subulated style — at midway of its length twist round in form of a kink & then rises up right agn — Above the kink covered with fine hairs — on ye apex a very small Stigma. These hairs & ye style itself seem to be designed for conveying & ye seeds at a distance by means of the wind.
The pistilum appears like a kind of bur. The Styles when in full bloom are not so long as ye corol — but longer yn ye filaments — ye top of disk of ye flower is opened so as to dis= =cover ye Pistil, but not ye Stam — ye whole flower is nearly in ye sase shape & of ye size of a small Acron when taken out of ye acron-cup — The disk of ye flower as it grows is inclined downwards.
(seq. 58)
54 Root — as large & of ye length of ye long fingur — irregular sends down small fibres — exceedingly astringent in tast & is much used && proves an excellent remedy in ulcerated, cancorous sore throts or mouth —
Stalk — round hairy from one to 3 feet high, covered with has on it many short hairs. Many single leaves are thrown of from ye stem at some distance — The leaves 3 lobed or deeply serated — with fine serry all round ye circumfer Winged at ye claws of ye stem, wide claw imbraces ye stalk. The leaf is long ruff hairy, much like ye look of mustard or turnip — has 2 or 3 root leaves on long pedicles —
June 3d — No: 109 — Sacersasarilla Aralia Pentand. Pentogynia — #
The flowers taht form ye umbel.
Calix —none, unless ye flower cup be a Calix. — wh perhaps it ought to be called. Corol. flower cup.
Calix — A perianth divided into 5 very
(seq. 59)
55 very small segments, with standing at distance & rising up between ye petals of ye corol. but not descernable untill they are removed & hardly yn without a Glass.
Corol. 5, reflex, ovate petals, —very small — Stam — 5 Subulated, spreading filaments, long= =er yn ye Corol. Anth. oblong, striated, stand inclining.
Pistil — 5 subulated Styles, shorter or 1/2 length of yn ye filaments — & inclining inward, Stigma very small.
Fruit — # This may be ye Aureliana canadensis of Catesby. Gensing or Ninsin Vide Ext. Catesby. The flowers are collected into an umbel of a globular figure —
Root — Oblong, nearly as large as ye little finguer — very thick bark & of so thick texture — runs horozontuly at a great distance just under ye surface of ye ground. & generally in a strait direction — — has very few small fibres — but When Branches are frequently sent up rise at a little distance from ye same root — (where it rises to ye surface of ye ground and is large enlarged on examining — find rout much ye same but let a [?] of a joint, a large branch rises vide root — but ye continuance of ye root wh still goes on, is very small when it leaves yr rising, but soon becomes of its usual size, untill it is enlarged a gain by ye rising of a branch) — It will
(seq. 60)
56 will frequently run 5 or 6 roots, & may be easily taken up its whole length with branches at 5 or 6 feet distance from each other. The Stalk. Stalk rises with out any radical leaf except a small husky appendag which as a kind of spatha incloses ye flower stalk with ye leaf stalk The leaf stalk is round, smoth, erect — very strait of ye size of a pipe stem of a redish colour, at a foot hight divides into 3 branches, which are again frequently divided into 2 branch on wh 2 pair pinnated oblong leaves with an odd one. The leaves are 4 1/2 5 inches long 2 1/2 brod. The pedicals stand spreading & make a beautiful appearance, Leaf = larger. Alternate viens from ye large one sending out many brances wh have also branches — Margin Serrated — accuminated at apex — The flower stalk is smaller yn ye leaf stalk, but erect, round, smoth, rises to half ye hight from a kind of socket in ye leaf stalk at ye root. This stalk is an umbel — divided into 3 branches, under one of them is a [usualy?] a very small ovate leaf as an involucrum The branches spread & have on there tops at an equal hight a great no. of small flowers, on small round pedicals 1/2 inch long, from ye same center wh form a beautif globlule — & wh a globe of flowers often stand in ye ala of ye branches sesile. Used in medicin — grows in light soil among tall wood & bushes —