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coction is therefore very serviceable in fevers, attended 

 with purgings. It checks this moderately, and is 

 good against the fever at the same time. 



Tree of Life. Arbor vilce 



A small tree of irregular growth., a native of 

 America, but common in our gardens. The 

 trunk is covered with a rough brown bark : the 

 branches are numerous, and irregular ; the young 

 twigs are flatted and the leaves of them are very 

 flat, and of a scaly texture ; they are of a bright 

 green, narrow, and somewhat like the leaves of 

 Cyprus, only not prickly ; the flowers are whitish, 

 small, and inconsiderable : they stand towards the 

 tops of the branches. The whole tree has a strong 

 and not agreeable smell, it brings into one's mind 

 old bad cheese. 



The young shoots and tops of the branches, are 

 used fresh. An infusion of them is good against ob- 

 structions of the lungs, but it must be slight, and the 

 use continued. 



Gum Anime Trie. Anlme arlor. 



A large and beautiful tree, native of America, 

 Its trunk is covered with a rough brown bark ; 

 the leaves are large and oblong ; they are not un- 

 like those of the common bay-tree in form, and 

 they always grow two at a joint, one opposite to 

 the other. They are very numerous ; and the 

 branches of the tree spread a great way ; they are 

 not all naked, but the head seems at a distance a 

 solid mass : the leaves are of a firm texture, but 

 when held up to the light, innumerable holes are 

 seen in therm, as they are in the leaves of St. John's- 

 wort, The flowers are shaped like pea blossoms ; 



