260 Appendix. 



" Extract from the ' Herball, or generall historic of 

 Plantes/ gathered by ' John Gerarde,' of London, Master in 

 Chirurgerie, and imprinted in London by John Norton, 

 A.D. 1597. 



" * The citron, limon, and orange trees do grow especially 

 in the sea coates of Italic, and on the Islands of Adriatic and 

 Tyrrheni, and also CEgicei maris, and likewise on the mainland 

 neere unto meeres and greate Lakes. There is also greate 

 store hereof in Spaine, but in places especially adjoining 

 unto the sea, or not farre off. They are also found in certaine 

 provinces of France, which lie upon the Midland Sea. They 

 were first brought of Media, as not only Plinie writeth, but also 

 the Poet Virgil affirmeth in the second booke of his Geor- 

 gickes, writing of the Citron Tree after this manner : 



" ' " The country Media beareth juices sad, 

 And dulling tastes of happie citron frute, 

 Than which no helpe more present can be had, 

 If anytime stepmothers, woorse than brute 

 Have poisoned pots, and mingled herbs of sate 

 With hurtfull charmes : This citron fruite doth chase 

 Black venome from the bodie in every place, 

 The tree itself in growth is hughe and big, 

 And very like in show the Laurell tree, 

 And would be thought a laurell leaf and twig, 

 But that the smell it castes doth disagree ; 

 The flower in holde, as fast as flower may be, 

 Therewith the Medes a remedie do finde 

 For stinking breathes and mouths a cure most kinde, 

 And help old men, which hardly fetche their winde." ' " 



No. 9. 



In the " Pharmacopoeia of India," by Edm. John Waring, 

 M.D., p. 45, the following occurs : 



" Citrus Bergamia (Risso). The lime-tree commonly cul- 

 tivated in India and other tropical countries .... closely 

 resembles the lemon, but is smaller in size, with a smoother, 

 thinner rind, and of somewhat less fragrant odor. Its juice 

 (lime juice) has the same pungent, acid taste, &c., &c." 



NOTE. The author is evidently describing the common 



