JUGLANDACEJE. 



A large tree. Branches even when young quite smooth, angular, 

 and a little speckled. Leaves pinnated, smooth, when bruised having 

 a strong heavy and yet aromatic smell ; leaflets about 9, oval, smooth, 

 somewhat serrated, nearly all of the same size. Fruit quite smooth, 

 globose or oblong. In Circassia the tree is pierced in the spring and 

 a spigot left for some time in the hole. When the spigot is withdrawn 

 a clear sweet liquor flows out, which is left to coagulate ; and on some 

 occasions they refine it. The Circassians consider it a most valuable 

 medicine for diseases of the lungs and general debility. Spencer's 

 Circassia. The very y9ung fruit, bruised and formed into a conserve 

 by boiling in coarse sugar, forms an agreeable and effectual purgative, 

 without griping. 



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