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The Natural Hiftory of the — Book Y. 
The Sr. HELENA LEMON-TREE. 
Ges! S is rather a prickly branching Shrub, than a Standard. 
It branches very near the Ground ; and, as the Branches are many 
in Numter, they interfere with each other ; and their Tops, efpecially 
when loaded with Fruit, bend wavingly downwards, almoft to the Ground. 
The Leaves, which are fet alternately, are longer and paler than thofe 
of the Orange-trees, and want likewife their Heart-like Footftalks. 
Its Blofloms refemble thofe of the juft-mentioned Tree; and the 
Fruit, when ripe, is of a pale-yellow Colour, and oblong in Shape, end- 
ing with a Nipple-like Protuberance. : 
_ Thefe are but very moderately four, and very grateful to the Stomach : 
‘Therefore it is much made ufe of in all Sawces, which require any Acid. 
it grows beft in fhady Places. : 
Gulielmus Pifo, in his Natural Hiftory of the Weft-Indies, has been pro- 
fufe in his Encomiums upon the Virtue of Lemons ; which appears from 
the following Words: | 
Peritiffimi nonnulli Indiarum orientalium & occidentaliummedicafri, pra- 
ter vuleares illas toto orbi celebratifiimas limonum & citreorum vires, quas 
quoqg; perpetuo commendabiles habent, plus prefidii a duabus his limonum 
partibus (femine, [cilicet, medulla) ponunt contra malignos morbos, & 
pefiilentes febres, atg; ipfa denig; venena, quam in lapide bexoardico, & fa- 
Jiidiofa theriace compofitione. Pifo, Pp: 314. 
Anfam mibi fuppeditari autumabam aliquid ad artis nore incrementum 
edi/cendi ; idque aliquoties tentans, non infeliciter proceffit : in febribus, /e- 
licet, intermittentibus, circa initium paroxy/mi, hauftu calido fucci limonum, 
cum facchari & aque fontane tantillo, Jemel atg; iterum exbibito, exacer- 
bationes vel in totum cefféffe, vel faltem indies preter expetiationem, fru 
cum fitt, deferbuiffe, & intra pautos dies plane filuiffe, deprehendi, Jubje- 
quente utig, manifefo affettu urine, feilicer, & wmprimis fudorum larga 
promotione. Ibid. p. 315. Vide p. 313. 
The SpantsH Lemon-rree; Lat. Limon. 
‘qe IS groveling fhrubby Tree feldom grows to what we may properly 
| call a Standard ; for it generally divides near the Earth into many 
weak Branches, which rife about Ten F eect high; and then, efpecially if 
loaden with Fruit, they bend downward, often fo low as to touch the 
‘Ground. | 
_The Leaves are about Four Inches long, and about Two in Breadth, 
of a faint yellowith-green Colour, and {et on the Branches alternately. _ 
The Flowers are the fame with the foregoing ; and are fucceeded by 
an oblong yellow Fruit. 
