76 FAMILY HERBAL. 



already described under its true name canella alba ; 

 in this place we are to inquire into the true winter'B- 

 bark^ called by many writers cinnamon. The tree 

 which affords it is a tree of twenty feet high, yery 

 spreading-, and full of branches, the bark is grey 

 on the outside^ and brown within. The leaves are 

 two inches long^, and an inch broad, small at the 

 atalkj and obtuse at the end, and divided a little. 

 The flowers are white and sweet-scented, the fruit 

 is a small berry. ^ 



The bark is the part used, they send over the two 

 rinds together : it is very fragrant and of a hot 

 aromatic taste. It is a sudorific, and a cordial, and 

 it is excellent against the scurvy. 



The CisTus Shrub, from which labdanum is 



procured, Cistiis ladanifcra. 



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A VERY pretty shrub, frequent in the Greek 

 islands, and in other warm climates. It is two or 

 three feet high, very much branched, and has broad 

 leaves, and beautiful large flowers- The trunk is 

 rough ; the twigs are reddish ; the leaves are al- 

 most of the shape of those of sage ; they stand two 

 at every joint, and are of a dark green colour. 

 The flowers are of the breadth of half a crown, 

 mnd of 9 pale red colour. The gum labdanum 

 is procured from this shrub, and is its only produce 

 used in medicine. This is an exudation discharged 

 from the leaves in the manner of manna, more 

 than of any thing else. They get it off by draw- 

 ing a parcel of leather thongs over the shrubs. 

 It is not much used, but it is a good cephalic. 



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The Citron Tree. Citria sive malus mcdica. 



A SMALL tree with pricklj branches, but very 

 beautiful in its leaves, flowers, and fruit ; i\\^ 



