BOTAHicAL Dbbckiptiob. — Tliis plant is herbaceous, ■with a pereiinial root of large size, frequently exceeding a man's leg in diameter usually branched, fleshy, fibrous, white within, easily cut or broken, and covered with a very thin brownisli bark or cuticle. Stems annuil, about an Inch in (iiumeter, and from five to nine feet in height, round, smooth and very much branched ; when young, they are green, but become of a fine deep purple or scarlet when matured. Leases scattered, petiolate, ovate, ohlong, smooth on both sides, ribbed underneath, entire, acute, and live inches long by two or tliree in breadth, fflmners numerous, small, greenish-white, on long pedunculated racemes, opposite to the leaves, sometimes erect and Rometinies drooping. Peduncles nearly smooth, angular, ascending; pedi- cles divaricate, sometimes branched, green-white, or pui-ple, and two others in middle. Oalyx whitish, consisting of five round-ovate, concave, in- curred sepals. Stamens ten, Oear}/ green, round, depressed, ten furrowed. Styles ten. Berries in long clusters, dark-purple when ripe, round, de- pressed or flattened, marked with, tlio furrows on the sides. Cells ten, See^s, ten, solitary. This plant ii a native of the TJaited States, growing In nearly all parts, along hedges, in neglected fields and meadows, along roadsides, moist ground, flowering from July to September. It is known by vjirious other names, as pigeon-berry, garget, scoko, coakum, pocan. The two last names originated witli the Indian tribes. This species is found not only in the United States, but in the Azores, North Africa and China. The PhytolaMd icosandra, a much smaller species, is a native of South America, extending frr.m Rio de Janeiro to Mexico, and is found in some of the West Indiaa Islands. The Phytolacca octan(k\i is found in the West Indies and Mexico, where the berries are used for washing, like soap. These species possess Biinilar properties. Officibai, Pbeparationb. — Tincture of the fresh root; tincture of the ripe berries; dilutions. Phytolaccin; triturations. AHALOaUBB. — Arsenicum, Arum tri.. Belladonna, Iris iier., Kali bieh. Lachesu, Mereurvus tod., Merewrius hydro.. Nitric acid, StUlingia, Sanguia- nria, 8ulp}i/ar- Mental Sphere. jyind very gloomy and irritable. Stupefaction, with vertigo and dimnesa of vision.