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Travels into North America, Volume 3 (of 3)

Note 133 — PETER KALM’s TRAVELS. (continued 3)

Johann Reinhold Forster translation

The biennial oenothera133 grows in abundance on open woody hills, and fallow fields. An old Frenchman, who accompanied me as I was collecting its seeds, could not sufficiently praise its property of healing wounds. The leaves of the plant must be crushed, and then laid on the wound.

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