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That thefe berries are well calculated to allay heat and thirft, and 
to correct a putrid tendency in the fluids, will be readily admitted ; 
but in this refpe@t they feem to poflefs no peculiar advantage over 
moft of the other acid fruits: hence the Colleges of London and 
Edinburgh have expunged this fruit from the Materia Medica, and 
retained that of the currant. Barberries however are much more acid, 
infomuch that they cannot be eaten without the addition of fugar, 
but when boiled with this, they form a moft agreeable rob or jelly ; 
they are alfo much liked as a {weet-meat, and as a pickle. .The bark 
is faid to he purgative, and Ray experienced its good effeéts in 
jaundice. : 
‘ « The roots, boiled in lye, dye wool yellow. In Poland they dye leather of a mot 
beautiful yellow with the bark of the root. The inner bark of the ftems dyes linen of 
a fine yellow: with the affiftance of allum.” With. 1. c. : 
orn SEES 
SWIETENIA MAHAGONI. MAHOGANY TREE. 
(Swieteni Cortex. Pharm. Murray. App. Med. vi. 1 32.) 
SYNONYMA, Swietenia foliis abrupte pinnatis, pinnulis ovato- 
laneeolatis obliquis, &c. Cavanill. Diff. Bot. 7. p. 365. t. 209- 
_ Cedrela foliis pinnatis, floribus fparfis, ligno graviori. Browne. 
_ Fam p. 158. Arbor foliis pinnatis, nullo impari alam claudente, 
nervo ad latus unum excurrente, &c. Cate/by. Carol. vol. 2. p. 8%. 
Conf, Facquin. Selec. Stirp. Amer. p. 127. 
Decandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 521. 
Ef. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-fidus. Petala lyse Neétarium cylindricum, ore 
 antheras gerens. Cas, g-locularis, lignofa, bafi dehifcens. 
Sem. imbricata, alata. <a | 
5. Mahagoni. Sp. Pl. 548. 
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