16 ORD. I. Conifer. JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS. 
plant are said to have been employed with more advantage than the 
berries.‘ 
We are told by Linnzus,* that the Laplanders drink infusions of 
the Juniper berries as we do tea and coffee, and that the Swedes 
prepare a beer from them, in great estimation for its diuretic and 
antiscorbutic qualities. Our Pharmacopeeias dirett the essential oil 
and a spirituous distillation of the Juniper berries, to be kept in 
the shops: the former, in doses of two or three drops, is found to 
be an a€tive and stimulating medicine; the latter contains this oil, 
and that of some other aromatic seeds united to the spirit, and 
therefore differs not considerably from the genuine geneva imported 
from Holland; but there is great reason to believe, that the gin 
usually sold here is frequently nothing but the frumentaceous spirit, 
imbued with turpentine, or other materials to give it a flavour. 
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JUNIPERUS LYCIA. LYCIAN JUNIPER, or CEDAR. 
Olibanum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
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SYNONYMA. Cedrus folio cupressi media majoribus baccis. 
Bauh. Pin. p. 487. Cedrus pheenicia altera Plinii & Theophrasti. 
Lob. Icon. 221. Du Hamel, Arbres, T.1. p. 140. V. Pallas Ross. 
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Sp. Ch. J. foliis ternis undique imbricatis ovatis obtusis. 
THIS species rises but to an inconsiderable height, sending off 
erect branches, covered with brown bark: the leaves are small, 
round, blunt, variously divided, and every where remarkably imbri- 
cated with small close scales: the flowers are male and female on 
different plants, and accord with the description which we have 
* Bergius says, “‘ Virtus: dignt & summitat diuretica, sudorifera, mundificans. 
Bacca diuretica, nutriens, diaphoretica.” M. M. p. 810. 
® Flor. Lapp. p. 301. They are likewise known to afford a pleasant wine. 
See Du Hamel, Arbres, T. i. p. 325. ; 
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