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in the Chelfea Garden, in 1739; but as thirty-fix fine trees of this 
fpecies are mentioned by Plot and Ray as growing near Newport, in 
Shropfhire, it muft have been cultivated in this country at a much 
earlier period. 
Though Linnaeus, and feveral other writers on the Materia Medica, 
refer the common turpentine to the pinus fylveftris, and the terebin- 
thina argentoratenfis, or Strasburg turpentine, to the Silver Fir Tree ; 
yet, upon the* authority of Murray, who follows Du Hamel and 
Haller, we have afcribed the terebinthina vulgaris to the pine here 
figured, which pours out the turpentine fo freely, that it is feldom 
necelfary to make incifions through the bark for the purpofe. 
The medicinal ufes of the different turpentines will be confidered 
under the Pinus Larix. 
\ ''"■-■" 
PINUS LARIX. 
COMMON WHITE LARCH TREE. 
Terebinthina veneta. Pbarm, Lond. & Edinb. 
SY NO NT MA 
anx. 
Baub. Pin. ^.493. Ger. Emac, p. 1385 
Park, Tbeat.p, 1533. Pinus foliis faciculatis decid 
oblongis, fquamis ovatis fubfcabris margine laceris. 
/ 
Larix folio deciduo conifera. 
Baub, Hift. 1. p. 265. Hall, Hift, n. 
33 2 - 
Larch Tree. Hunter s EveL 
:eris. DuRoyBaumz, 
Du Ha?neL Arb, 1 . p. 
The 
65$ 
79 
Clafs Monoecia. Ord, Monadelph 
* 
Lin. Gen. Plant 
77 
EJf, Gen. Cb. Masc, Gal. 4-phyllus. 
Cor, 
o. 
Stam, plurima. 
Antbera nudse. 
/ 
Fem, Gal, ftrobili: fquama 2-fl 
C 
Pift. 1- 
Nux 
membranacea excepta 
Sp. Cb, 
P. foliis faciculatis mollibus obtufiufculis, bracteis extra 
/* 
fquamas ftrobilorum exftantibus. 
Hort. Kew* 
THE 
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