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Show 850 LYCIAN JUNIPER. rent sizes, not larger than a chesnut, of a redor yellow co. lour, having little taste, and a peculiar aromatic smell, Neumann got from 480 grains, 346 alcoholic and 125 watery ex. tract; and inversely, 200 watery and 273 alcoholic. The distilled spirit and oil both smelt of olibanum, but no oil separated. It forms a transparent solution with alcohol, and a milky fluid when triturated with water: it is not fusible, but in. flammable, and burns with an agreeable smell. It is the frank. incense of the ancients; and the diffusion of its vapour around the altar still forms a part of the ceremonies of the Greek and Roman catholic countries. COMMON SAVIN. JUNIPERUS SABINA. Class XXII. Dicecia. Order XII. Monadelphia. Essent, Gen, Caan. The same asthefirst. Spec. Cuar. Leaves opposite, erect, decurrent, the oppositions closed, $< DESCRIPTION. Tus plant rises a few feet. Leaves numerous, firm-pointed, inverting the younger branches. Flowers inconspicuous, producing a blackish purple berry. HISTORY. Native of the south of Europe, and the Levant; flowering in Mayand June. MEDICAL VIRTUE. Tt acts as a powerful and perhaps dangerous emmenagogue. Dr. Cullen observes, that Savin is a very acrid and heating substance, and I have been often, upon account of these qualities, prevented from employing it in the quantity perhaps necessary to render it emmenagogue. I must own, however, that it shows a more powerful determination to the uterus than any oa 2 |