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Tills flirub, which Is a native of Candia and fome of the lllands nf 

 Archlpelag^OjWas firft cultivated in England by Mr. P. Miller in th 



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73 1 /and is new to be had of feveral of theLondon gardeners, though 



many other exotic fpecies of this g( 



, . ly met 



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Not only this plant, but moft of its congeners, abound with 



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liquor, which in fu.mmer exudes upon their leaves, and feems to be 

 of the ladanum kind : but it is well known, that the Ciftus creticiis 



fpecies from which the ofEcinal Ladanum is colleded. This is 



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done in Candia by means of an inftrument call tnere ILrgaJtiri^ made 

 in the form of a rake, to which feveral leathern thongs are fixed 

 inftead of teeth, and with v/hich the leaves of the £ln*ub are 



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bruflied backwards and forwards, fo .that the fluid Ladanum may 

 ihere to the leather, from v/hich it is afterwards fcraped off with 

 knives, and formed into regular maffes for exp 



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As tills drug is obferved to iffue moft coploufly in the hottcil: 

 athei\ the method of ^^atherins; above defcribed muft be performed 



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when the intenfity of the fan's heat renders it a tery laborious and 

 troublefome employment. 



Three forts of Ladanum have been defcribed by authors, but only 

 two are now to be met with in the fliops. " The bed, which is 

 very rare, 'is in dark-coloured maffes, of the confiftence of a foft 

 plafter, growing ftill fofter on being handled : the other is in long 

 rolls, coiled up, mxuch harder than the preceding, and not fo dark. 

 riie"hril has commonly a fmall and the laft a large admixture off! 



fand, which in the Labdanum examined by the French Academy 

 amounted to three-fourths of the mafs. It is fcarcely indeed to be 



died pure, independently of defigncd abufes ;^ the dull blown on 



being 



tlie plant by wmds from the loofe fands amono; which it irrc 

 retained by the tenacious juice. ^ The foft kind has an agreeaole 

 fmellj and a lightly pungent bitterifii tafte : the hard is mu< 



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See Alton's Kort. Kevv. 



1 curneforr. Vnxno-p rh^ T.;i^n-rf / ; 4. oq. v/here the Er.^^arnri is defcribed and fig^j 



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Tjdge an i^tvai.t. t. /. v. 29 



ty.the ancients we arc told, that the Aa^avov was colleded by combing the beara^ 

 snd thighs of goats who browzed upon the cifius, and to v/hofe hair tlie drug was founc 

 tO' adhere: another method of gathering it, was by dran'ing cords over thofe ihru^s 



which produced it. Sec Diofcorides, Mat. Med, Lib. i.f°ilZ. and Pliny, ii^'^ ^'^'^'' 



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Lib. xii. cap. xviii 



