Sweet gummes
| Title |
Sweet gummes |
| Caption |
Liquidambar styraciflua L. - sweetgum |
| Source |
Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 2: 235. |
| Date |
1913 |
| URL |
http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=list2_001_avd.tif |
| Creator |
NL Britton and A Brown |
| Type |
Drawing |
| 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
