Dk. Swan TZ's Botanical Eiftory, Gc. 97 
Canella tubis minoribus alba; and, p. 461, 
Caflia Wig Jamaicenfis laureolæ folis fubcinereis, cortice piperis 
modo acri * 
Prio gave, a fhort time after (Theatr. p. 1 581), a prolix de- 
tail concerning the difference between thefe two kinds of bark, and 
tells us it was a common thing in his time to miftake one for the 
other. 
But Jonn Bauurn feems to have firft confounded the names, 
by fyling the Cortex Winteranus, Canella alba. Hif. t. i. L 4, 
p. 460. 
PLUKENET, who probably knew fomething more of the tree 
than its baik only, found great difficulty in difcriminating the 
fynonyma ; as he fays, in his Almag. Mant. p. 40, ** Varie inter 
fe plurimum diverfæ plantæ per illarum ignorationem plane con- 
funduntur." But he docs not himfelf corre& this fault, as he gives 
a very falfe reprefentation of a branch from the tree, that yields 
the true Winter's Bark (Physogr. tab. 81, f. 1), which he certainly 
never faw. 
He has however enumerated the former in his Almagelt p. 89, 
under the name of Caffia cinnamomea ; feu, 
Cinnamomum fylveftre Barbadenfium, arbor baccifera, fruétu 
calyculato 4 pyreno, folio enervi. 
. Date (Pharmacolog. p. 296) very precifely indicates, that Cortex 
Winteranus is very fcarce in the fhops, and that the apothecaries 
fupply the want of it with the bark of Canella alba. 
* Several authors have formerly given this tree different names; as 
Canella Cubane. — Jonf. dendr. 165. 
Arbor Jucaiz. Nieremb. 294. 
Arbor cujus cortex gingiber æmulatur. Laet. 24. 
Lignum feu potius cortex aromaticus. —Eju/Z. in (cholic ad Cap. de Lignis aromaticis. 
Monard. p. 324, &c. 
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