Sweet gummes
| Title |
Sweet gummes |
| Caption |
Liquidambar styraciflua L - sweet gum |
| Source |
©J.S. Peterson. USDA NRCS NPDC. |
| URL |
http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=list2_002_ahp.jpg |
| Creator |
JS Peterson |
| Type |
Photograph |
| Copyright |
JS Peterson |
| Origin |
Internet |
| Notes |
Hariot; p.11 Sweete Gummes of diuers kinds … other Apothecary drugges . . .; Not enough information provided here to be certain of what ‘gums’ are being described.; Some possibilities include:; Sweet-gum (Liquidambar styraciflua L.) Radford 1968 p. 529.; Storax (Styrax grandifolia or S. americana); Pine or other conifer resin? Pinus spp., red cedar (Juniperus virginiana); Lawson; p. 102 “The sweet Gum-Tree, so call’d, because of the fragrant Gum it yields in the Spring-time, upon Incision of the Bark, or Wood. It cures the Herpes and Inflamations; being appli’d to the Morphew1 and Tetters2. ‘Tis an extraordinary Balsam, and of great Value to those who know how to use it. No Wood has scarce a better Grain; whereof fine Tables, Drawers, and other Furniture might be made. Some of it curiously curl’d. It bears a round Bur, with a short Prickle, which is the Seed.”; 1 morfew (n.) A variant of morphew, a scruffy skin eruption. Lederer 1985.; 2 tetters (n). Chiefly Southern U.S. Any of various skin diseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, or herpes, characterized by eruptions and itching.; [Middle English teter, from Old English; see der- in Indo-European roots.]; The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,; |
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Sweet gummes
