58 FAMILY HERBAL. 



The Canel Bark-Tree, called the Winter's 

 Bark-Tree. Canclla alba. 



A VERY beautiful American tree. It grows 

 fifty fcrt high, and is commonly much blanched. 

 The bark is of a greyish brown : the leases are 

 ver like those of the bay-tree, and the flowers are 

 purple; they arc singly very small, but they s; and 

 in a kind of umbels, and make a vei y pretty figure: 

 the tV ii it is a berry which stands in the tup of the 

 flower : It is of the bigness of a pea, and of a deep 

 blackish purple when ripe. It is frequent in 

 Jamaica in wet places. 



The inner rind of this tree is the part used iu 

 medicine; ii is brought to us rolled up in quills, iu 

 the manner of cinnamon, and is of a spicy taste, 

 and of a whitish colour. Its proper name is canella 

 alba, while canel ; but the druggists have accustom- 

 ed themselves to call it cortex winteranus, winter 's- 

 bark. It has the same virtues with that, but in a 

 much less degree; and they are easily known 

 asunder, that being the whole bark of the tree, 

 ami composed of two coats ; this being only the 

 inner bark, and therefore composed only of one. 

 It is good in weaknesses of the stomach, and in 

 habitual colics. Some recommend it. greatly in 

 palsies and all nervous complaints, but its virtr/'S 

 of tli is kind are not so well established. 



Canterbury Bells. Trachclium majus. 



A VERY beautiful wild plant with leaves like 

 the stinging-nettle, and large and very elegant blue 

 flowers. It grows by road-sides, and in dry 

 pastures, and is two or throe feet high. The stalks 

 are square, thick, upright, siring, and hairy. 

 The. leave? grow irregularly, tlicy are oi a dusky 



