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fine purple ju'ice, which proves an ufeful aperient and refolvent in 

 recent colds and fundry chronical difeafes, gently loofening the belly, 

 and promotino; urine and perfpiration.' ' ^ The officinal preparation 

 of thefe berries is the fuccus baccae fambuci fpilTatus. (Pharm. Lond.) 



' Lewis M. M. p. 576. ' ; 





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PYRUS CYDONIA. COMMON QUINCE TREE 



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ST NO NT MA. Cydonium malum. Fharnu Lond, "^ Edlnh 



Malus Cotonea. Gerard, Emac. p, 1452. Ran Hifl, p, 1452.^ 



y. Bauh. Hifl. vol, u p. 'y^^, .]N4alus Cotonea vulgaris. Park, 





The at, p. 1504. Mala cotonea majora. Bauh, Fin, p, 434 



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Flor, Auflr, v. iv, f, 342. Duplex varietas in hortis colitur, fcil. 

 I. Cydonia frudtu oblongo laeviori. Tourn, Liflit, p. 6^,2, Mala 

 Cotonea majora* C^ Bauh, /. ^., depida ,ab ill Du Hamel, ia 

 Traite des Arb,- fruit, ad p.lo^, 2 Cydoaia frudu breviore et 



rotundiore. Tourn, I: c. Mala cotonea minora^ C. Bauh, I, c, 

 depida in' Du Hamel Traits des. Afh; et'Arbufles Tab; ^x,. 

 Proilat et alia 3 varietas : Cydpnia latifoFia lufitanica. To^r;^.. cujus 

 frudus oblongus fuccofior et minus acerbus, fed rarioris proventus 

 Vide Murray App, Med. vol, iii. p, 196. "' - : 



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Clafs Icofandria.: 0/-2/. Pentagynia. Lin, Gen, Flant. 626. 



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LJf, Gen^ Ch, 6*^/. 5-fidus. Fetala 5. Fomum inferurn j'-lociilare 



polyfpermum. * 





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Sp. Ch. F. fol. integerrimis, fior. folitariis* 



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THIS tree feidom rifes very high, being ufually crooked and 

 diftorted : it fends off feveral branches, and is covered v\uth*a brown 

 bark : the leaves are fimple, roundiih or oval, entire, on the upper 



fide of a dufky green colour, on. the under, whitifh, and lland 



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upon fliort footllalks: the flowers are large, folitary, of a pale red 



or white colour, and placed clofe to the axilla of the leaves : the 



calyx 



