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Plants. LXXXI. Vol. IV. No. 37., COMMERCIAL-PLANTS., , lte"r du fr, eue, aime mie, ‘isscs ei "x aux «1 esterraiUli foujour, petiot Ps e" &»«. k arouS« ‘J, £at. "‘«tffrà. ‘H au Lt-ranitt ui Fait que ce& léiablederom. uerleffpcsceson Kn Eoypteon le fuc mielleux : à Ja prépara* : brun, tacheté rages rie marne vient que, Fig. 1. The Liquorice. (Glycirrhiza glabra.), -J-he Liquorice grows wi'd in Spain, France, Italy and the southern parts of the Asiatick lluflia; by culture it also became indigenous in varions parts of Germany, elpecially in some tracta of Franconia and Suabia, where it is cultivated in great rpiantity. ^ In Pbyßck it is ufed a* a refolvent, especially m cougbs., Fig. 2. The Carob-Tree, or St. John's bread. (Ceratonia siliqua.), The common Carob-Tree equals in size the ash-tree. It is most -common in Spain, Sicily, Egypt and the Island Candia or Creta and schrive» beft in a stony foi), The leaves (ß), are evergreen, thick and fmooth, and grow by pairs on the fîalk». The littîe red flowers (Ä), grow like cluIt thrives beft in a fandy, yet not poor foil; the root is about th-thickness of a thumb, the stalks wbich giow, 5 or 6 feet bigb, wither in autumn, but germinate again in fpring. The,. T -, vio l-e, t. -b i nxe, f l o w ne r s (a), a p rp e\ a' r i n J a i l y-ibl?e t w e e n ". h. e. r s o Jr a r[a p e,. s,. o n, t b e b r a n cch e sr, w i t, h, o u t p Arosp), err\ thxe p l u Tm y l e a v, e s, a n d a r e, r o l l o w,. e, d b y h 1t t;l e h i-u s k1s 1 1 " lt a, l K s,. 1 n e. h u s k l i k e f, r u it o r ö t. J o h n sth. r e :a d), \ \. t >«) C, o. *), «) C, o. *), !. w, h i c n c o n t. a i n t h1e J e, n t i!-J. i k e. i. e. , e. d s. r i, i's. '" o, r a n u s, k, y c o1l ou, r a n «d g r o, wbich thrîves under ground, is little fla. t feeds are as hard as frone». properly the ufeful part of the plant. It contain» a twmt stuiF wbich is ufed in différent difeafes, TLe fruIt îs on account of it8 fweet *nd we11 The outline colour of the root is tawny; the in-*^d Pu1P an a8ieable (ooâ and ^'1«™, The Name St. Johns breacl dérives from an old faying, that John the Baptift lived on it in the defert. jretendait
