Arbores mirabiles; or a description of the most remarkable trees, plants, and shrubs, in all parts of the world ... Taken from the journals of eminent travellers, historians and naturalists / By Joseph Taylor.

  • Joseph Taylor
Date:
1812
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Credit: Arbores mirabiles; or a description of the most remarkable trees, plants, and shrubs, in all parts of the world ... Taken from the journals of eminent travellers, historians and naturalists / By Joseph Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AUR ANTI A MALUS. 90 a yellow. Likewise, the rind is thinner, and they are much more full of juice, which is more acid than that of the citron. Upon which account it is thought by many to be more cooling and efficacious in hot diseases. In short, what has been said of the juice of citrons, may, in most respects, be applied to lemons. The Aurantia Alains, or Orange Tree. This beautiful tree grows abundantly in China, Lisbon, and many other warm coun¬ tries. It does not grow very tall, but has a thick, woody, branched root, which spreads very much, and is of a yellow colour in the inside. The trunk is hard, white within, of an agreeable smell, and is covered with a greenish, smooth, white bark. The branches are numerous, flexible, and of a beautiful green, with a few thorns thereon. The leaves are somewhat like broad laurel, and are alwavs green, thick, smooth, and ending at each end in a point, with a foliated pedicle, in the shape of a heart. When held up to the light, they appear full of transparent holes. The flowers grow in bunches, and are roseate, consisting of five white petals, placed in a rang, with many stamina, which have yellow apices, or heads. At the bottom and centre of the cup, there is an orbicular placenta, which sustains a roundish pistil with a long
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