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Medina^ and tranfrnitted a branch to Linn^us in 

 1763. It is now known to be a plant of the Mo- 

 nogynous order, in the OEiandrous clafs, and belongs 

 to the fame genus with the plant that in America 

 yields the gum Elemi. It now (lands in the Syf- 

 tem under the name of Amyris (Gileadenfis) foUis 

 ternatis integerrimis ; pedunculis unifloris^ lateralihus^ 

 Mant. 65, Syft. Nat. Veg. xiii. p. 299. A com- 

 plete hiftory of the ftirub, and the virtues of the 

 balfam, are exhibited concerning which we need 

 only obferve, that modern phyficians have found 

 a fubftitute in other natural balfams^ and therefore do 

 not entertain fo high an opinion, as the antients did, 

 of the wonderful reftorative powers of this drug. 

 The prefent age hath made us acquainted with the 

 plants which afford the Gum Elemi^ Anim^^ and 

 Copaiba j we yet wait for the full difcovery of the 

 Balfam of Peru, Ammoniacum^ Caranna^ Myrrhy 

 Bdellium^ and Sagapenum. This tra6t clofes with 

 a defcription of the plant, which Linnaeus ho- 

 noured with the name of Forjkalea. It is figured 

 in Plukenefs Phyt, t. 275, f. 6, and ilands among 

 the Becandri^e Pentagyne^^ next to the Spergula. 



129. Dii^TA JEtatum. B. J, Ohrquiji. 1764. 



A fuccin6l view of the changes which the hu- 

 man body pafTes through, in the feveral ilages 

 from the birth to extreme old age, inculcating the 

 due obfervance of all thofe rules refpeding diet 

 and regimen, which are befl adapted to give vigour 

 to the conilitution, and permanence of health, 



during 



