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Show SILVER FIR TREE, eed ascribed the Terebinthina vulgaris to the pine here figured , which pours out the turpentine so freely, that it is seldom necessary to make incisions through the bark for the purpose, MEDICAL USE, Decoctions of the woodand tops of these trees are often em- ployed in the northern countries for promoting thesecret ions by the kidneys and the skin, andfor cleaning and healing internal ulcers, particularly of the urinarypa: {n the third edition of Dr. Lind’s Treatise on the Scurvy, part ii. chap. 4. we have several instances mentioned of the troops and seamen of Russia and of Sweden being cured of the § curvy by the decoctions ofthe fir tops; and it is well known t hat beer made with decoctions or extracts of the spruce, of the fir, and of otherspecies of the pine tree, have been foundto be good remedies both for preventing and curing the scurvy. XXI. Moneecia. Order 1X. Monadelphia. Essent. Gen. Cuar, Spec. Cuar. The same as the last. ; i 7 ; pointed, ater elow emargin emareinate: Leaves solitary, fiat, above below Scales of the Cone obtuse, embracing. DESCRIPTION. A MODERATE sized tree. Leaves on the under side sei i white ite lines, li i and so so numerous numer as to csonceal the with lying close, and stem. : scaccinae a membranous 1 p US aD> Cones long, when young possessing ap pendage, which drops off as they become matured. HISTORY. Native of Switzerland and Germany, and cultivated in this country, Although the learned Dr. Woodville and several other writers on the materia medica refer the common turpentine 2 the Pinus sylvestris, and the Terebinthina argentoratenss Strasburg turpentine, to the silver fir tree; yet, upon ihe thority of Murray, who follows Du Hamel and Haller, we have |