Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

76 FAMILY HERBAL.
already
described under its true name canella alba ;
in this place we arc to inquire into the true winter 's-
bark, called by many
writers cinnamon. The tree
which affords it is a tree of twenty feet high, very
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, spreading and full of branches, the bark is grey
on the outside, and brown within. The leaves are
two inches long, and an inch broad, small at the
stalk,, and obtuse at the end, and divided a little.
The flowers are white and sweet-scented, the fruit
is a small berry.
The bark is the part used, they send over the two
rinds together: it is verv fragrant and of a hot
aromatic taste. It is a sudorific, and a cordial, and
it is excellent against the scurvy.
The Cistus Shrub, from which labdammi is
procured.
Cistus ledum fern.
A VERY pretty shrub, frequent
islands, and in other warm climates.
in flic
It is
Greek
two or
three feet high, very much branched, and has broad
leaves, and beautiful large flowers. The trunk is
rough ; the twigs arc reddish ; the leaves are almost
of the shape of those of ; sage they stand two
at every joint, and are of a dark green colour.
The {lowers are of the breadth of half a crown,
and of a pale red colour. The gum labdanum
is procured from this shrub, and is its oniv produce
used in medicine. This is an exudation discharged
from the leaves in tiie manner of manna, more
than of any thine: else. Tin'V it get off by draw-
ing a parcel of leather thongs
over the shrubs.
It is not much used, but il is a good cephalic.
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Trek. Citria sire mains medica.
A v VAI-L tree with pritkiv brar.rh.es, but very
beautiful in its leaves, fljwers. and fruit ; th'J