zoy A Treatise on 
Caryophylli Aromatici , Off. Kotyjo(pvX\cv, Pauli 
PEginct. Carunfel , Scrap ion. They are a dry unripe 
Fruit, in Shape almoft quadrangular and fomething 
like a Nail, about half an Inch long, of a blackifh 
brown Colour and wrinkled, having on the Top 
four Points Handing in a crucial Form, with a 
round Head or Cap in the Middle, which is com- 
pofed of fmall Leaves folding over one another 
like Scales. When thefe Leaves are laid open we 
meet with a great Number of reddifh brown Fibres, 
and among them ariles out of a Cavity a four 
cornered Style of the fame Colour. This Cap 
however is not always to be found, being very li- 
able to be broken off in Carriage. They have an 
acrid, bitterifh, and agreeable Tafte, and a very 
fragrant Smell. The beft are almoft black, heavy, 
fat, hot in the Mouth, of a pleafant Smell, and 
give out a certain Moifture when they are prefled. 
The Tree is called Caryophyllus Aromaticus fruftit 
cblongOy C. B. P. 410. ijhinka , Pifon. Mantifs . 
Arcm. 177. It grows in the Molucca Iflands, and 
particularly in Pernate , where it is induftrioufly 
cultivated by the Dutch. When the Cloves are 
fuffered to hang upon the Tree till they are fully 
ripe they are called Ant of by Hi. Thefe the Dutch 
preferve in Sugar, and eat them in long Voyages 
at Sea to help Digeftion, and prevent the Scurvy. 
Frefh Cloves yield a thick Oil by Exprefiion, 
which is fragrant and of a reddifh brown Colour. 
In Diftillation they give up a large Quantity of 
eflential Oil, which at firft is trani parent and yel- 
lowifh, but afterwards inclines to red, and finks in 
Water-, and at laft a Portion of thick empyreu- 
m stick Oil, with fome acid Liquor. From the 
Cput Mortuum , after Calcination * is obtained a 
fmall Quantity of fixt neutral Salt. 
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