A Geological Account of the United States : Comprehending a Short Description of Their Animal, Vegetable, And Mineral Productions, Antiquities, And Curiosities

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This grows naturally in moist places, by streams of water ; generally sending up several slender stalks to the height of eight or ten feet, dividing into a few branches towards the top. The leaves are lance shaped, sharp pointed, and acutely sawed on their • '"rran?. Agric. Sot . ITew Yorif.
28S UNITED STATES, edges ; having short slender foot stalks, and placed alternately. The flowers come out at the bosom of the leaves in small corymbi or clusters; of an her- baceous colour. They are succeed
...ed by roundish berries of a red colour when ripe, and remaining long on the branches.
The virtues of this excellent shrtib when joined with the cornus florida, or dog-wood, in the inter- mittent, are well known. But it is also a powerful remedy in mnrtitications. A decoction of the bark mixed with s'jirits and flour is to be applied to the parts, and the decoction taken freely.
The poisonous datura stramonium, or Jamestown weed, is not without its virtues. An ointment pre- pared by boiling the leaves with hog's lard is a su- perior remedy in liurns and scalds; and an extract from the leaves has been used with great advantage in tliat awful disease, the epilepsy.


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