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their efficacy and worth. Of these, three are admitted 
into our London Pharmacopeeia; viz. Cinchona lancifolia, 
or lance-leaved cinchona, affording the pale brown bark; 
C. oblongifolia, or oblong-leaved cinchona, yielding the red 
bark; and C. cordifolia, or heart-leaved cinchona, which 
gives the yellow bark. Now, of these three, it is well known 
that the lancifolia, or quilled bark, has in general been, 
by the profession, the most esteemed; still the oblongifolia, 
or red bark, has not been without its SOE Si anaes 
pularly, it was so highly prized that, in the markets, it 
Sahl Dnialodally fetch threefold the price of brown, and 
six times as much as the yellow, or heart-leaved species, which 
was comparatively slighted both by the profession and the 
public. Perhaps, the scarcity of the red bark contributed 
something to its high estimation, as the relative abundance of 
the yellow not improbably increased its disfavor, just as at 
the present day no one will use, (indeed, who would conde- 
scend to use,) the indigenous simple, aromatic, and astringent 
bitters, Menyanthes, ‘leucrium, Salix, Acorus, and Bistorta, 
which grow abundantly at Hampstead, Highgate, Battersea, 
and Paddington, when they can have Quassia, Catechu, 
Cinchona, and Colomba, by sending to Hindoostan, Jamaica, 
Mozambique, or Peru? 
And here (as in a parenthesis) I would observe, that our 
native medicinal herbs have of late been too much neglected ; 
for certain it is that we compass half the globe to import a 
drug, the prototype of which not unfrequently solicits our 
hands at home. 1, for one, can never think that all those plants 
are useless that we use not; that such countless myriads of 
beauteous herbs which “ spring profusely wild over all the 
deep green earth,” spring oft in vain, because in vain they 
court man’s notice and regard; | never can believe that Pro- 
vidence has armed the weeds of foreign lands with powers 
necessary for us, whilst ours are impotent to heal. 1 never 
ean believe our herbs inert, whilst every plant in other climes 
may boast itself a physician's staff. 1am fully sensible of 
the advantages of labour, and have often dwelt on the bless- 
ings, on the peculiar poten those men enjoy who by 
their station are compelled to work. Yes, I know that it is 
by a merciful dispensation that man has been condemned in 
the sweat of his brow to eat his bread; I feel that, where 
necessity compels not to exertions, indolence debases man 
almost to the level of a brute; and likewise, I confess that, 
where most is required for the body, there most fully are 
developed the energies of the mind; still 1 cannot but per- 
ceive that many of our native plants want but to grow upon 
