Catalogus Stirpium, &c. 
A. 
A bies mas Theophrasti Syn. 441, Pi- 
cea Park. Picea major Ger. ^he com- 
mon Firr^ or Pitch Tree.^ by forne called 
the Spruce Firr. 
The young Tops of this Tree make an excellent 
Antilcorbutic either infuled or boiled in Beer or Wine, 
Experience has fufficiently ’confirmed their Efficacy in 
that Diftemper in our American Plantations, where 
the Inhabitants’ uled to be leverely afflidled with it, 
who fince they have taken to brewing a Kind of Liquor 
of Molofles, in which they boil the young Firr-Tops in 
the room of Hops, they are very little troubled with 
the Scurvey, and many of our Sailors whole Diet on 
board of Ships makes them lubjedl to it, have had Rea- 
fbn to commend that Liquor. This T ree yields two 
rofinous Subftances, a thin liciuid Sort, which comes 
forth from the young Firrs, and is known in the Shops 
by the Name of Strasburg lurpentine,^ and a_ dry Sub- 
ftance refembling Frankincence, to which it is not un- 
like in Quality. 
Abies 
