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THE UXIVEKSE. 



Along with these we must not omit to name a tree 

 which selects the fruit instead of the bark as a store-house 



245. Nutmeg-tree — Myristica moschaia (Lauiarckj. 



for its aroma: it is the nutmeg-tree. It grows beneath 

 the sun of India, and its nuts, an important article of 

 commerce, are frequenth^ used in the preparation of our 

 food. 



the account hy La Condaraine. In fact, the illustrious Prusi3iau naturalist, who 

 had traversed the regions where these celebrated trees grow, maintains that their 

 virtues are absolutely unknown to the savages there, \\dio are frequently assailed 

 by obstinate fevers ; and Fee even says, that they believe the bark of cinchona 

 to be a poison capable of producing gangrene, and wdiich was only carried away 

 from their country to be used for dyeing. Tlie trees which produce quinine 

 were long unknown, and we owe our first notions about them to La Conda- 

 mine. 



