(seq. 2)

[loss] chronic affections. As a topical stimulant I have
only attended
to it & think it well deserving notice. It is apt to
excoriate & blister☞
if used undiluted. 4. Critonia kuhnia? The root of this
plant is
of some importance as an article of the materia chirurgica.
Reduced to
a powder the bark of the root is applied to old foul ulcers
with evi
=dent advantage. The effects are escharotic.— I have lately
used it—
Am I correct in designatine it Critonia? It grows in high
dry pineland
only. It may be found in light oak & hickory land
too— The stalk
rises to the height of 3 feet & is often reddish brown. The
leaves are alter-
nate, linear lanceolate, sometimes super ne serrata. Its
pubescena
consists a roughness & viscidity which we observe in some
species of
Eupatorium expecially in the E. lineaifolium. Indeed this
plant strongly
resembles the Eupatoria especially in its flower. The
flowers are of a
dirty white or cream colour the florets in each flower are
from 5 or 9 or 10.
[Bloom middle of September till now]
The styles are deeply cloven, each division clavate
& decumbent
The pappus is elegantly plumose. The Anthera long, yellow,
& united
by a then transparent web——. 5 Were it not that the
American Materia
medica is already so rich in the class of astringents we
might insert
into it the Vaccinium arboreum (Michx). Its fruit gathered
late serve
extremely as an astringent in loose bowels. I knew a case
of
bilious diarrhea brought on by the immoderate use of opium
cured by this remedy when the resources of the physician
had proved inadequate. The root is highly astringent & used
in some neighborhoods as a remedy in diarrhea. The leaves
were recommended to me by a medical gentleman as a good
substitute for the Arbutus uva ursi so famed in Nephritis—

The bark & excrescences of our oaks may well
exclude the Galla aleppiceae from our shops—— As tonics
too some of this genus have been well tried & found
efficacious—

Today I passed thro' part of the calcareous tract &
collected for you some plants of Angelica lobata Walt &
have preserved
them in their native soil earth so that I hope you
will be able to pro-
pagate them readily — This plant is becoming rare, hogs
seek for it==

1 with great avidity, besides a the fertile
lands will soon all be under cultivation
The roots are often six inches long & 3/4 of inch in
diameter. I know nothing.
of the A. nondo — A. integrifol. Walt. is common here.

You mentioned sometime
ago the Gentiana ochroleuca as being the true Sampson's
Snakeroot,
with as the Gentiana japonica Walt. is reputed to be that
plant.
Is ochroleuca a synonym of one of Walter or Michx.'s
species?

Since my last the following of your [Dendernita?] of
Michx have only met my observation.
Spilanthes urens bloomed Augt. 29
Tripterella capitata ———— Sept. 4
Liatris tomentosa ————— 15
Chelone glabra (Var β) —— Oct. 3
Arare gynandrous plant. —— Sept. 25 {It may be Cypripedium,
if so
{it is new — I never saw a Cypripe-
{dium & have no generic [characters?]
{to refer to —————
Eclipta procumbens 9. Augt. —

Besides I have seen several doubtful plant specimens of
which
I will send you— I hope you have already corrected a
mistake
in one of my former communications I denominate
considered "Queens Delight"
as Stillingia ligustrina. The Stillingia ligustrina
is very rare here
as you will see in the enclosed sketch — I meant S.
sylvatica.——
Has our Glycine apios ever been cultivated? It bids fairer
in its wild
state to become an important article of food than could the
Solanum tube-
rosum previous to cultivation. Vide Humboldts Essay on New
Spain.
In the Cooper river — ricelands the knobs of the plant are
not only multi-
plied but enlarged. Negroes eat them freely —— I am sorry
no opportuni-
ty offers of sending you specimens— I have them ready— The
canal is now
open but not a boat has passed—

I am, Dear Sir,
With great respect
yours
J.Macbride

I should be extremely gratified }
were you to pay me a visit duirng }
your botanical excursions —— }