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obtained from the Peppermint which grows in 

 England. This oil was found by Mr. White 

 to be much more efficacious in removing all 

 cholicky complaints than that of the English 

 peppermint, which he attributes to its being 

 lefs pungent and more aromatic. 



" This tree appears/' says Mr. White, " to be 

 undoubtedly of the same genus with that cul- 

 tivated in some green-houses in England, which 

 Mr. L'Heritier has described in his Sertum An- 

 glicum by the name of Eucalyptus obliqua, 

 though it is commonly called in the gardens 

 Mctrofideros obliqua ; but we dare not assert it 

 to be the same species, nor can this point be 

 determined till the flowers and every part of 

 both be seen and compared ; we have com- 

 pared the best specimens we coujd procure of 

 each, and find no fpecific difference. The Eu- 

 calyptus obliqua has, when dried, an aromatic 

 flavour somewhat similar to our plant. We 

 have remarked, indeed, innumerable minute 

 white spots, besides the resinous ones, on both 

 surfaces of the leaves in some specimens of the 

 garden plant, which are not to be seen in ours, 

 and the branches of the former are rough, with 

 small scaly tubercles. But how far these are 

 constant we cannot tell. The obliquity in the 

 leaves, one side being shorter at the base- than 

 the other, as wHl as somewhat narrower all the 

 way up, as in the Begonia nitida of the Hortus 

 Kewensis, is remarkable in both plants.'' 



