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JUGLANDACEJB.A large tree. Branches even when young quite smooth, angular,and a little speckled. Leaves pinnated, smooth, when bruised havinga strong heavy and yet aromatic smell ; leaflets about 9, oval, smooth,somewhat serrated, nearly all of the same size. Fruit quite smooth,globose or oblong. In Circassia the tree is pierced in the spring anda spigot left for some time in the hole. When the spigotis withdrawna clear sweet liquor flows out, which is left to coagulate ;and on someoccasions they refine it. The Circassians consider it a most valuablemedicine for diseases of the lungs and general debility. Spencer'sCircassia. The very young fruit, bruised and formed into a conserveby boiling in coarse sugar, forms an agreeable and effectual purgative,without griping.308

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