370 The Ujeful Family Herbal. 
fiV=oen TREE or Lire’ i suse 
eS Pee OR VIT oe 
He Small Tree of irregular Growth, a Native of 
America, but common in our Gardens. The 
Trunk is covered witha. rough brown. Bark: The 
Branches are numerous, -and irregular; the young 
a 
very flat, and of afcaly Texture; they are of a 
bright Green, ‘narrow, “and fomewhat like the 
Leaves of Cyprus, only not prickly ; the Flowers 
are whitifh, fmall, and inconfiderable - They ftand 
towards the Fops of the Branches. “The whole 
Tree has! ‘a -ftreng and not! acréeable Smell, it 
_ brings into one’s. Mind old Had-Cheefe?*: <= 
<The young Shoots, and ‘Tops of the Branches, 
are wled-frefh. An ‘Infufion ‘of them is good a- 
_ gainft Obftruétions of the Lungs, but it -muft be 
flight, andthe Ufe continued, 
The Gu M ANIME TREE. : 2 
Se ee ANIME aRgon 12). 
A Large and beautiful Tree, Native of America. 
"Its. Etunk “is: covered with 4 rough brown 
Bark; the Leaves are large and oblong, they are 
ot unlike thofe of the common Bay-Treein Form, 
and they always grow two at a Joint, one oppo- 
fite to the other, They are very numerous; and 
Sea 
& 
the Branches of the Trée fpread a great Way, 
vey are-hot at all naked, bur the Head feems at a 
Texture, but when held uptothe Light, innumera- 
ble Holes are feen in them, as they are in the | 
Leaves Of St. Fobn’s-wort. The F lowers are 
fhaped ‘like Pea Blofloms 3 they are of a purple 
“Colour, 
es. oR 28 = a. 
f'wigs! are flatted, and the Leaves on’ them are | 
nce. afolid: Mafs:: Phe Leaves ate of a firm — 
