. An encyclopædia of gardening; . The common citronThe flat-fruited The rough-fruitedThe forbidden-fruited IThe grape-fruited Barbadoes(Hon. Trans, vol. iii. p. 558.) 4896. The lemon is the C. Medica, var. Limon, W. {Blackiv. 362.); the limon of the French ; limmierof the Germans ; and limone of the Italians, {fg. 513.) The distinction between the lemon and citron isvery trifling. The fruit is less knobbed at the extremities, is rather longer, and more irregular, and theskin is thinner than in the citron ; the wood is more knotty, and the bark rougher. Cultivated in theOxford garden in

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