. rted that the honey of Corsica is renderedpoisonous from the bees feeding on the flowers of this tree. To the same natural order belongs the celebrated tallow-tree, (Stillingia sebi-fera,) a native of China, and introduced into Carolina, in 1772, together with theupland rice, by Mr. John Bradley Blake, of Canton. The seeds, which wereplanted by Dr. Alexander Garden, of Charleston, flourished, and from that sourcewere obtained all the trees of this description now growing in the southern statesof the union. An oil may be expressed

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. rted that the honey of Corsica is renderedpoisonous from the bees feeding on the flowers of this tree. To the same natural order belongs the celebrated tallow-tree, (Stillingia sebi-fera,) a native of China, and introduced into Carolina, in 1772, together with theupland rice, by Mr. John Bradley Blake, of Canton. The seeds, which wereplanted by Dr. Alexander Garden, of Charleston, flourished, and from that sourcewere obtained all the trees of this description now growing in the southern statesof the union. An oil may be expressed from the kernels of the fruit, whichhardens by cold, to the consistence of common tallow, and by boiling, becomesas hard as bees-wax. Buxus sempervlrens,THE EVERGREEN BOX-TREE. Synonymes. Buxus simpervirens, Buis toujoars vert, Buis commun, Bois benit, Ozanne,Buchsbaum, Immergruner Buchsbaum,Bussolo verde, Busso, Bosso,Box-tree, LiNNiEus, Species Plantarum. Smith, English Flora. LouDox, Arboretum Britannicum. France. Germany. Italy. Britain and

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