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difeafes with which humanity Is afPiiaed ;' but as the camphor It con- 

 tains can avail but little, and its effeds as a bitter or aromatic are fo 

 very inconfiderable, this root is now deemed to poflefs very little 

 medicinal power, and might fafely be expunged from the materia 

 medica;^ though it ftill has a place in the confedio aromatica of the 

 London pharmacopoeia. * ^ ' ■ ' , 



e Se6l. xiv. §. 3. *■ Dr. Cullen fays, " I am clear thj 



litted in our lilts of the Mat. Med." Mat Med. vol. it. p. 207 



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MYRISTICA MOSCHATA. NUTMEG TPvEE. 



STNONTMJ. Nux Mofchata. Pharm, Lond, ^ Ed'mk Part 



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Theat,p, 1600. RauH'i/I.p, 1522. Nux Mofchata, frudu rotundo. 



Bauh. Pin. p, 407. Pluk, Almag.p. 267. Nux Mofchata rotunda, 



. five femina. Gerard.^ Emac.p. 1536. Breyn. Prod. voLii. p. 77. 



Nux Myriftica. Rumph, A?nb. voL it, tab, 4, Myriilica Mofchata. 



L 



Thumb, AB', Stockholm, ann, ij^i, p, /^6, t, i. Conf, Memoir e fur 

 U genre du Miifcadier Myrifllca^ par Mr, Be La Marck\ Hijl, de 

 VAcad, Royal des Sc'ien, pour Van, \^%%, pub, en 1790.^. 148. 



h 

 r 



Clafs Dioecia. Ord, Syngenefia. Shreb, Gen, Plant, 1562. 



r 



■ X 



EJf. Gen, Ch, Masc,^ Cal, 3-fidus. Cor, o. Anther a circum fu- 



premam partem filamenti adnatse. 



I 



1 



Fem, C^/. 3-fidus. C<?r. o. %/. brevifs. Stigma 



bifida. Capjs, drupacea. Shreh, 

 Sp, Ch, M. foliis lanceolatis frudu glabro. Thufib, 



\ 



THIS tree attains" the height of thirty feet, producing numerous 

 branches which rife together in flories, and covered w^th bark, which 

 of the trunk is a reddifh brown, but that of the young branches is 

 of a bright green colour : the leaves are nearly elliptical, pointed, 

 undulated, obliquely nerved, on the upper fide of a bright green, on 

 the under whitifli, and fland alternately upon footPcalks : the flowers 

 are fmall, and hang upon flender peduncles, proceeding from the axillae 

 of the leaves : they are both male and female upon feparate trees. 



No. 



4 



Of 



