THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
AUGUST, 1847. 
ART. L— DRIMYS WINTERT, Forster, De Candolle. (Winter's 
Bark Tree.) With a Figure. 
By Joseph Carson, M. D. 
Sex. Syst. — Polyandria, Polygynia. 
Gen. Char. — See D. chilensis, in last number. 
Specific Char. — Leaves oblong, obtuse, glaucous beneath. 
Peduncles simple, approximated or very short, divided into 
elongated pedicels. — (Be Candolle, Prodromus.) 
Winter's Bark was brought before the medical profession 
in a paper read to the Medical Society of London, in 1779, 
by Dr. John Fothergill. It is contained in the fifth volume 
of " Medical Observations and Inquiries." In this paper is 
a history of the discovery of the tree, with a botanical 
account of it drawn up by the celebrated Dr. Solander. It 
appears that the tree and the bark were unknown, until the 
return of Captain John Winter from a voyage to the South 
Seas in 1579. Captain Winter was the commander of the 
ship Elizabeth, which sailed with Sir Francis Drake in 
1577; but after having passed through the Straits of Ma- 
gellan, on the Sth of Octoher of the following year, was 
obliged by stress of weather to return to the Straits, and 
remaining there some time procured the bark which Clusius 
in honour of him named Cortex Winteranus. 
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