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.lyx IS compofed of one leaf 



divided into five 



notched fegments : the corolla confifts of five petals; thefe 

 convex, roundifh, and notched at their extremities : the fil 



fpreadlng 



about twenty, tapering, fliorter than 



calyx, and furnifhed v^ith fimple anth 



v.....v,......v.o . uiiu iiidinents are 



the corolla, inferted into the 



the 



ermen is orbicular- 



the flyles are five, flender, nearly of the length of the filaments and 

 fupplied with fimple fligmata : the fruit is of the apple kind and di- 

 vided at the centre into five membranous cells, containing the feeds 



- ^ 



which are oblong, ang 



pointed at one end, obtufe at the othe 



pellicl 



fide cornpreffed, on the other flat, and covered with a brownifh 



It 



of Au ilr 



d flowers in May and J 



or Mr,Xsx Kv^uvix 



It appears from Pliny,'' that the malus Cyd 

 the Greeks, was originally brought from Cydon in Crete, hence the 

 name Cydonia. At prefent, the Quince tree is known to grow 



r* 



the banks of tlie Danube, though in a much lefs 



Britifli gardens, where it was 



flate 



than we obferv( 

 time of Gerard 



Th 



e form of the fr 



P 



pple, according to the differ 



pproaches to th 



f this fp 



of 



of 



tree from which it is produced, and which we have already noticed 

 under the fynonyms : it has a pleafant odour, and a very auftere tafte 



Its 



prefixed j 



peatedly taken in fmall quantities, is faid to be 



gent, and ftomachic, ufe 



in 



fea, vomitings 



dorous erudations, and fome kind of alvine fl 



b 



Formerly 



juice was ordered in the Lond. Pharm. to be made into a fyrup 

 the .only preparation of the Quince which it now direds is a mu 

 of the feeds, made by boiling a dram of the feeds in eight oun 

 w^ater, till it acquires a proper confiftence. This has be 



but 



fau 



efli 



ended in apth 



a 



fled 



ions 



) 



m recom- 

 d excoriations of the mouth and 



ces. 



It may be a more pleafant mucilage, but it is certainly 



lefs 



than that of the fimple gums 



JitoTi^s Hort. K 



eiv. 



Lib. XV. cap 



! * 



But upon 

 pleafant flavour 



L)ijf. de Cydonih-i p. 59. 



being boiled and preferved in fyrup, th 



known 



b 



Lezv'is Mat. Med. p. 26'] 



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