PERUVIAN BARK. 
The beauty of this celebrated plant, though 
considerable, is it's least valuable quality. It 
derives it's name of most notoriety, not from 
it's Flower, but from it's Bark, which is ad- 
mitted to be one of the grand articles in the 
modern materia medica. 
Hence, without enquiring into it's original 
native appellation, it has received various 
names, all of them h a v i n g some reference to 
it's medicinal use. 
In England, it is generally called, by the 
faculty, Cortex Peruvianus, or the Peruvian 
Bark : it is, also, frequently denominated 
Cortex jesuiticus, or Jesuits Bark, 
It is the Cinchona of Botanists : who make 
it a genus of the monogynia order, belonging 
to the pentandria class of plants; and ranking, 
in the natural method, with those plants the 
order of which is doubtful, The corolla is 
funnel- 
