432 Mr. Cutler's Account of indigenous Vegetables,

PETTYMORREL. Life of Man. Blossoms greenish white.Berries black. In moist, rieh wood land. July.

It is aromatic. The berries give spirits an agreeable flavour.The bark of the root and berries are a good stomachic. It issaid to have been much used by the Indians for medical pur-poses.

Aralia.

SARSAPARILLA. The roots extend a long way just under thesurface of the ground. Sterns naked ; divided into three leaf-stalks. Leavesovate; acuminated; serrated ; three or five on aleaf-stalk, in a winged form. Blossoms in a globular umbel,rising from the axillce of the leaf-stalks ; white. Berries red.Common in loamy wood land. May.

The roots are aromatic and nutritious. They have been foundbeneficial in debilitated habits. It is said the Indians would sub-sist upon them, for a long time, in their war and hunting ex-cursions. They make an ingredient in diet drinks.

STATICE ? Linn. Gen. Plant. 348.

Statice caule nudo paniculato tereti, foliis leevibus. Syst.Nat.

MARSH ROSEMARY. Blossoms blue. Common in marshes.July.

The roots are powerfully astringent. A decoction of themis .given, and used as a gargle, with success, in cankers and ul-cerated sore throats.

DROSERA. Linn. Gen. Plant. 351.Drosera scapis radicatis, foliis orbiculatis. Syst. Nat.SUNDEW. Rosa Solis. Blossoms white. In mossy mea-dows. July—August.

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