36 SJLVA OF NORTH AMERICA. canellace^. 



rarely used^ except perhaps locally in medicine, and as a condiment by the negroes of the West 

 Indies. 



Canellaj the diminutive of the Latin cana or carina^ a cane or reed, was first applied to the bark of 

 some old-world tree ^ from the form of a roll or quill which it assumed in drying, and was afterwards 

 transferred to the West Indian tree. 



was known in his time also as Costus hlanc and Costus corticuR or ' Cassia bark was an article of commeree in London under the 

 corticosus. The confusion regarding the tree discovered by Captain name of canel in the thirteenth century (Fliickigcr & Hanbury 

 "Winter on the shores of the Strait of Magellan in 1578 and the West Pharmacof/raphia, 47G) ; and the bark of the true Cinnamon (Cm- 

 Indian Canella lasted during two centuries. (Linnaeus, Mat Med. namomum Zeylanicurri) was known in Europe as Canella bark before 

 66 ; Barham, HorU Am. 209 ; Miers, Ann, Nat. IlisL ser, 3, i. M2,) the introdactiou of West Indian canella- 



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