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Show WINTER’S BARK TREE. 553 be the same: tuted for it; and by some they are reckoned to t them in apbetwix ence differ erable there is, however, @ consid bark is in ’s Winter ‘The y. qualit in r greate pearance, and a canella, and larger pieces, of a more cinnamon colour than the les that of resemb much warmer and more pungent. Its smell volatile ant, stimul cascarilla. Its virtues reside in a very hot, oil. MEDICAL USE. d in meThis bark is a warm stomachic, and but little applie its place, in tuted substi lly genera being alba a canell the dicine, which is supposed to have nearly the same virtues. WINTER’S BARK TREE. WINTERA AROMATICA. Class XI11. Polyandria. Essent, Gen. Cuan. Order 1V. Tetragynia. Calyx three-lobed: Petals six or twelve: Germen clayate: Styles none: Berry clavate. Spec. Coan. Peduncles aggregate, terminal: Pistils four. | DESCRIPTION. A tree rising often fifty feet. Leaves ovalor elliptical, entire, obtuse, flat, shining, of a pale blue underneath, irregularly placed upon thick peduncles. Calyx thick, fleshy. Corolla petals white, small. Germen turbinate. HISTORY. This is the produce of a tree first discovered on the coast of Magellan by captain Winter in the year 1567. The sailors then employed the bark as a spice, and afterwards found it serviceable in the scurvy; for which purpose it is at present also sometimes made use of in diet drinks. The true Winter’s bark is 20 often met with in the shops, canella alba being generally substi- |