The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . or poultry befed upon the fruits and leaves, their fleshwill not fail to be tender. The ripe fruit isseldom eaten raw, although, with theaddition of pepper and sugar, it is said tobe agreeable. It is generally made intosauce, or preserved in sugar, in the WestIndies, and the unripe fruit is eitherpickled, or boiled and eaten like juice is used by the ladies as a cosme-tic, to remove freckles ; it is also a power-ful vermifuge. And, according to theanalys
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . or poultry befed upon the fruits and leaves, their fleshwill not fail to be tender. The ripe fruit isseldom eaten raw, although, with theaddition of pepper and sugar, it is said tobe agreeable. It is generally made intosauce, or preserved in sugar, in the WestIndies, and the unripe fruit is eitherpickled, or boiled and eaten like juice is used by the ladies as a cosme-tic, to remove freckles ; it is also a power-ful vermifuge. And, according to theanalysis of Vauquelin, it contains fibrine, asubstance at one time supposed to beconfined to the animal kingdom, but nowknown to exist in several vegetables. Theleaves are employed as a substitute forsoap. C. spinosa is a branching tree, abouttwenty feet high, with a spiny stem andbranches ; native of Guiana and Brazil,where it is called Chamburu. Its leaves aredeeply cut into seven lobes, like those of , but the lobes are quite juice of this tree is of an exceedinglyacrid nature, causing blisters and itching. if applied to the skin. The fruits are in-sipid and are eaten only by a species of ant,neither birds nor other animals touchingthem : and the flowers have a disgustinalyfetid odour. The fruits of some otherspecies, such as C. citriformis and C. pyri-formis, are eatable, but insipid. [A. S.] CARIE. (Fr.) Uredo Caries. CARIES. This word is used in vegetablepathology to denote decay of the walls ofthe cells and vessels, whether attended bya greater or less degree of moisture. Lifeis necessarily limited in all organic struc-ture, and therefore the time must comewhen the oldest parts of trees must submit |to decomposition ; and as soon as this com-(S, it acts as a putrefactive ferment,and involves neighbouring sound tissues. In plants of shorter duration, decay takesplace from various causes, sometimes frommere constitutional peculiarities, some-times from a cess
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