( *4 ) 
Latin Names. 
2 d Ed. Lin. Sp. 
Englifh Names. 
Obfervations. 
Salfola Soda 1 
Salfola Sativa J 
and Chenopodiuni 
marititnum 
p* 323 
p. 321 
Thefe kinds of 
glaffwort for Ba- 
rilla 
Thefe are fown yearly in 
fields near the fea in Spain, 
for making Barilla, for 
foap, glafsj &c. 
Ceratonia Siliqua 
P- *5*3 
Locuft-tree or St. 
John’s Bread 
The pods are excellent food 
for hard-working cattle, and 
uled for this purpofe on the 
fea-coaft of Spain, where 
they are eafily propagated 
from feeds or cuttings. 
Piftachia Vera 
P- 14-54 
Piftachia-tree 
They are propagated about 
Aleppo, where the female 
or fruit- bearing ones are 
ingrafted on the flocks 
raifed from the nuts. 
Piftachia Terebin- 
thus 
P- 1455 
Chio turpentine- 
tree 
Phis kind of turpentine is 
ufed in medicine. 
Piftachia Lentifcus 
P- 1455 
Maffick- tree 
Gum Maflick from the ifle of 
Scio ; as this tree, common- 
ly called the Lentifcus, is 
doubted to be the genuine 
Maftick-tree, feeds of the 
true kind may be procured 
from the ifle of Scio. 
* Styrax Officinale 
P- 6 35 
Gum Storax-tree 
This tree grows in Italy, Syria, 
and India ; but the warmer 
climates yield the beft gum. 
Convolvulus Scam- 
monia 
'Xj 
K> 
OO 
Gum Scammony 
Seeds of the Plant, from 
whence this excellent drug 
* There is a refinous juice, which, by age, hardens into a folid brittle refin, of a pungent, 
warm, balfamic tafte, and very fragrant fmell, not unlike the Storax calamita, heightened with 
a little ambcrgrife, which is produced from the Styrax aceris folio of Ray, or Liquidambar Sty- 
racifiua of Linnaeus, Spec, plant. 141S, which grows in perfection in the Floridas. This, 
Dr. Lewis, in his Materia Medica, p. 353, fays, might be applied to valuable medicinal purpofes. 
The French, in Du Pratz' Hiftory of Louihana, fpeak with rapture of its healing qualities, 
and the high elleem it is in among the Indians of Florida, on account of its infinite virtues : it 
is known to the Englifh by the name of the Sweet Gum-tree, and to the French by the name of 
Copalm. — This is well worth the attention of the College of Phyficians, as we can have it ge- 
nuine, whereas the Storax from the Eafl: is often adulterated. 
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