. 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) . are said to befrom Italy. But of the imported specimens,which I have examined at the druggists shopsin this country, very few possess any remains ofthe original strength, and much the greaterportion of them appear to have undergone atleast one distillation, before their exportation fromEurope. The best Juniper berries have a strongimpregnation of
. 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) . are said to befrom Italy. But of the imported specimens,which I have examined at the druggists shopsin this country, very few possess any remains ofthe original strength, and much the greaterportion of them appear to have undergone atleast one distillation, before their exportation fromEurope. The best Juniper berries have a strongimpregnation of volatile oil, which, having beenonce tasted, cannot be easily mistaken. Thosewhich have been subjected to distillation are dryand tasteless. BOTANICAL BEFERENCES. Juniperus communis, Linn.—Smith, Flor. Brit. iii. 1085.— U 1100.—Woodville, ii. t. 95.—Michaux, ii. 245.—Puhsh, ii;646.—Blackwell, t. 187, MEDICAL REFERENCES. ♦ Murray, Jlpp. Med. i. 34.—Lewis, Disp. 240.—Linnaeus, FloraLapp. 376.—Woodville, ut supra- 48 JLNIPERUS COMMUNIS. PLATE XLIV. Fig. 1. A branch ofJunipems communis in fruit. Fig. 2. Jl barren twig in flower. Fig. 3. Barren ament. Fig. 4. Scale of anthers of the same. Fig. 5. Fertile flower. JZJTLV. - //////. T///ST4M //r////// JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA. Red Cedar. PLATE XLV. Unlike the subject of the preceding article,this species rises into a tree of considerable is the largest of the Junipers growing withinthe original limits of the United States, thoughit appears that Lewis and Clarke brought homespecimens of a lofty tree, with foliage resemblingthe Savin, found on the banks of streams amongthe Rocky mountains, and which is supposed tobe the same with J. excelsa, growing in Siberia. Michaux, in his North American Sylva, in-forms us, that it is found from Maine and fromLake Champlain, without interruption to theCape of Florida. In the Middle and Northernstates, it frequents the most barren soils, beingfound in abundance upon dr
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