LEMON.-LIMON.-CITRUS. 



In Botany, of the Class Polyadetphia Icosan- 

 dria ; Natural Order, Bicornes. 



THIS fruit derives it's name from the Greek 

 word Afi^wj/, which signifies a meadow, "be- 

 cause the leaves and the fruit, before they 

 are ripe, are of the colour of a spring 

 meadow. 



The lemon and the citron-tree are nati es 

 of Asia, from whence they were brought into 

 Greece and Italy. They appear to have been 

 well known to the Romans in the days of 

 Pliny, although they had failed in the culti- 

 vation of them, as that author informs us in 

 his 13th book, chap, iii., where he says, speak- 

 ing of foreign trees, " I will begin with that, 

 which is of all others the most wholesome, 

 the citron-tree, called the Assyrian-tree, and 

 by some the Median-apple: the fruit is a 

 counterpoison, and singular antidote against 



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