. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3) . interesting in a chemical, than amedical point of view. The pleasant aroma ofthe water distilled from the berries, and the ap-plication of the wax to some purposes of phar-macy, are all, that this shrub at present offers,much deserving the attention of physicians. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Myrica cerifera, Willd, iv. 745.—Michaux, ii. 227.—Pursh,ii. 6
. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3) . interesting in a chemical, than amedical point of view. The pleasant aroma ofthe water distilled from the berries, and the ap-plication of the wax to some purposes of phar-macy, are all, that this shrub at present offers,much deserving the attention of physicians. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Myrica cerifera, Willd, iv. 745.—Michaux, ii. 227.—Pursh,ii. 620.—Myrtus foliis lanceolatis, &c.—Gronovius, 155.—Myrtusbrabanticse shnilis, &c.—Catesby, i. 13 ? MEDICAL AND CHEMICAL REFERENCES. Cadet, translated in Nicholsons Journal, Svo. vol. iv. 187.—Bostock, in ditto, 129.—Kalm, Travels, i, 129.—Dana, in SillimansJournal, vol. i.—Thacher, Disp. 288. 0 43 3IYRICA CERIFERA. PLATE XLIII. Fig. 1. JHyrica cerifera, with fruit not fully ripe. Fig. 2. Jl barren branch in flower. Fig. 5. Fertile ditto in flower. Fig. 4. A barren flower. Fig. 5. Tlie same with the scale turned down, shewing the mode of growth of the antherstFig. 6. Fertile 7. Fruit somewhat A. // t/f/ ro*n //////< .TUNIPERUS COMMUNIS. Common Juniper. TLATE XLIV* 1 he prostrate variety of the common Juniperis so peculiar in its mode of growth, that it hassome claims to be considered a distinct comparing* it, however, with European speci-mens, I find the similarity so great, that I do notsee sufficient grounds for separating it, especiallyas there are, in Europe, several varieties in sizeand mode of growth, which are not recognized asseparate species. The variety, which is the onlyone I have met with in the Northern States, is alarge trailing shrub, continually throwing outroots from its branches, and spreading in alldirections until it forms beds, which are manyrods in circumference. In this way it continuesto adv
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