714 ORD. XLI. Scabride. 
The bark of the root of the Mulberry-tree has an acrid bitter 
taste, and possesses a cathartic power. It has been successfully 
used as an anthelmintic, particularly in cases of Tenia.’ The dose 
is half a dram of the powder. 
= Vide, Andry, de la generation des vers, &c. p. 172. 
ES RP 
FICUS CARICA. COMMON FIG-TREE. 
SYNONYMA. Carica. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Ficus com- 
munis. Bauh. Pin p.-*5%.— Freus vulgar. Pari-Fheat. p. 
1494. Ficus, Gerard. Emac. p. 1410. Raii Hist. p. 1531, 
~ ‘Ficus Carica. Miller Illust. Syst. sex. Du Hamel Traité des 
arbres Fruitiers. tom. i. p. 207. tab. 1.2. Bernard in Obs. sur la 
physique, Vhist. nat. &c. tom. 29.tab. 1. Y» Greec. 
Class Polygamia. Ord. Trioecia. Lin, Gen. Plant. 1168. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Receptaculum commune turbinatum, carnosum, con- 
nivens, occultans flosculos vel in eodem vel distincto. 
Mase. Cal. S-partitus. Cor. 0. Stam. 3. 
Fem. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor.0. Pist.1. Sem. 1. 
Sp. Ch. F.foliis palmatis. 
THE Fig-tree is covered with smooth brown bark, and sends off 
many spreading branches: the leaves are large, succulent, smooth, 
irregularly divided into five lobes, of a deep green colour, and 
stand upon strong footstalks. The fruit, in its early stage, Serves 
as the common receptacle, and contains upon its inner surface all 
the florets, which are both male and female; the former has the 
calyx (proper) divided into three segments, which are lance- 
Shaped, erect, and equal: there is no corolla: the filaments are 
