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pitcli. And the whitish resin which is called ihus^ 

 or frankincense, and is a thing quite different from 

 olibanunij or the fine incense, is the natural resin 

 flowing from the branches of this tree^ and harden- 

 ing into drops upon them. It does not differ much 

 from the common turpentine in its nature^ but is 

 lessoffensive in smell. 



The several kinds of pitchy tar^ and resio:, are 

 principally used in plaisters and ointments. The 

 turpentine produced from this tree also^ and cal- 

 led common turpentine;, is principally used in the 

 same manner, the finer turpentines being given 

 inwardly. These are procured from the turpen- 

 tine tree^ the larch tree^ and the silver fir. The 

 yellow resin and the black are sometimes taken 

 inwardly in pills^ and they are very good against 

 the whites^ and the runnings after gonorrhoeas ; 

 but for this purpose it is better to boil some bet- 

 ter sort of turpentme to the consistenee and give it. 



PiomY. P(£onw, 



A FLO^'V ER Gonimon in our gardens, but of 

 grf'at use as well as ornament. The common 

 double pionv is not the kind used in medicine ; 

 this is called the female pionj j the single flowered 

 one called the male piony, is the right kind. This 

 grows two or three feet high. The stalk is round, 

 striated, and branched : the leaves are of a deep 

 green, and each composed of several others : 

 the flowers are very large, and of a deep purple, 

 with a green head intbe middle. When they are 

 decajed, this head swells ont into two or more 

 seed vessels, which are whitisb and hairy on the 

 « tit side, and red within, and full of black set>ds. 

 Tiie root is composed of a number of longish or 

 fonndish lumps', connected by fibres to the Biaia 



