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flavour. The best of the latter are said to be 
from Italy. But of the imported specimens, 
which I have examined at the druggists’ shops 
in this country, very few possess any remains of 
the original strength, and much. the greater 
portion of them appear to haye undergone at 
least one distillation, before their exportation from 
Europe. The best Juniper berries have a strong 
impregnation of volatile oil, which, having been’ 
once tasted, cannot be easily mistaken. Those 
which have been subjected to distillation are dry 
and tasteless. 
‘BOTANICAL BEFERENCES, 
Juniperus communis, Linn.—Smirn, Flor. Brit. iii. 1085.—Engl, ‘ 
Bot. t. 1100.—W oopvixtx, ii. t. 95.—Micwaux, ii. 245.—Punsu, ii, 
646.—Biacxwe 1, t. 187. 
MEDICAL REFERENCES. 
Murray, App. Med. i. $4.—Luwis, Disp. 240.—Liyvzvs, Flora bes 
Lapp. 376.—W oopvitie, ut supra. ery Tue Tae 81) 
