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short or scarcely visible. The fruit is used to feed cattle, though it 
is indigestible for them. The wood is incorruptible in water and is 
employed for sills, door posts, and mills. The Ceratonia Chilensis, 
Molina belongs to this species as well as the P. flexuosa. 
© Prunus domestica. L. The ciruelo—the plum tree, is widely 
spread over the country. Many varieties are enumerated; the fruit 
of some of them is made into sweetmeats. Dried plums (prinés) wre 
purgative and may be substituted for tamarinds particularly if used 
with cream of tartar. Plum trees planted at a short distance from 
each other, form an impenetrable inclosure, if care is taken to cut 
them at about the height of a man. I have seen some beautiful i in- 
—— in this style in the neighborhood of San Fernando. =—™ 
- Psorealea glandul osa. L. The culen is very common in woods 
lies rivers, and in the vallies. ‘The bark and leaves of this little 
tree are used as a medicine. It is said that the infusion is a specific 
in abdominal pains, ‘ empachos,’ (surfeits) indigestions, &c. The 
same virtue is attributed to the ashes. The dry leaves powdered, 
and the green ones wilted, are applied to wounds in the form of a 
cataplasm. Ulcers are washed with its decoction. Iti ‘is F made t into 
a ptisan with the heart of lettuce ; it has a pleasant taste and is sai 
to be salutary. From the bark of this tree a resin exudes which is 
by-shoemakers to wax their thread. The P. Inte —- 
a monstrosity of this species. 
*Preris. Li. Two species of this genus grow on ‘ashaskaee ‘th 
woods and on rocks. The first resembles the P. Chilensis, Desv., 
the other may be new. I will call it, P. triphylla. Itis different 
from the Adiantum Wiphyitem: Smith, which Kaulfuss places with 
and Passebe 
 Puceinia. Pars. The name polvillo is given to the species of 
this genus, as also to the cidium, and Uredo. ‘They all grow upon 
the living leaves of plants, the specific name of which they ey gene 
ly take. I have found the P. Rose, DC., P. gramini ‘ 
P. Poligonorum, Schlecht. and P. Lycii, Birere: 
© Punica Granatum, L. Granada. A common shrub. Its leaves, 
Sevens: and particularly its fruit render it interesting. The bark of 
the fruit is an excellent astringent adapted to various abdominal dis- 
eases which are kept up by a want of tone in the absorbent vessels. 
A saturated decoction is the base of a tincture black as ink. _ Thi 
Paap ptt gale ated to which is ahoasiley se 
