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JUNIPERUS LYCIA. LYCIAN JUNIPER, or CEDAR. 
Olibanum. Pharm. Lond. Iff Edinb. 
SYNONYMA. Cedrus folio cuprefli major, frudu flavefcente 
Bauh. Pin. p. 487. Cedrus phoenicia altera Plinii &f Theophrafti 
Lob. Icon. 221. Du HameL Arbre 
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Clafs Dioecia. Ord. Monadelphia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1 1 34 
EJf. Gen. Cb. Ma s c. Amenti Calyx fquamse. Cor. o. Statu. 3. 
Fem. Gal. 3-partitus. Petala 3. Styli 3. Bacca 
3-fperma, tribus tuberculis calycis inasqualis. 
Sp. Ch. J. foliis ternis undique imbricatis ovatis obtufis 
THIS fpecies rifes but to an inconfiderable height, fending off 
ere£t branches, covered with brown bark: the leaves are fmall 
d, blunt, varioufly divided, and every where remarkably imbr 
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d with fmall clofe fcales : the flowers are male and female on 
different plants, and accord with the defcription which we have 
dy given of the Juniperus Sabina : the berries are large, and 
when ripe of a dark brown 
is a native of the South of Europe, and very fcarce in this 
country ; for that fpecies called Lycia by the gardeners here, has not 
the fcaly appearance reprefented in the plate before us, which was 
drawn from a fpecimen in the Herbarium of Sir Jofeph Banks 
The officinal gummy refmous fubftance, known by the name of 
Olibanum, is faid to ouze fpontaneoufly from the bark of this tree, 
appearing in drops or tears, of a pale yellowiih, and fomeumes of a 
Fi & Olibanum has a moderately ftrong and not very 
This d« has received different appellations, according to !« different appearances^: 
eddifh 
fmgle tears are called limply olibanum, ox th 
fcveral 
mafculum ; and when two are very large thus f™f"™>lj* S^fal* 
this ccrticdum : the fine powder, which rubs off from the tears, «<« 
coarfer may 
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