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  1. ... Bdellium. BALDMONEY, jEthusa Meum. BALENAS, Leviathan penis. BALIMBAGO, Hibiscus populeus. BALINEATOR, Bather. BALL, Pila. BALLISMUS, Chorea. BALLONNEMENT, ...
  2. ... cordage made from the bark of young trees. Hibiscus (Abelmoschus) heterotrichus of Eastern Equatorial Africa. Probably in ... paecee,” seven feet high, affording “ floats for nets.” Hibiscus (Abelmoschus) esculentus of Equatorial Africa. The okro or ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Quincy's Lexicon-medicum : a new medical dictionary, containing an explanation of the terms ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by E. & R. Parker, M. Carey & Son, and Benjamin Warner, 1817
    ... which have the flavour of musk. The plant Hibiscus abelmoschus of Linnaeus, is indigenous in Egypt, and ... called perfect aigylops, or agylops. ^Egyptia muscata. See Hibiscus abel- ntoscnus. /Egyftiac um. A name given to ...
  4. ... you may know if you have an ornamental hibiscus plant in your yard at home. This is a hibiscus grown for its industrial fibers, called kenaf. It ... previously known as Micropolyspora faeni), Thermoactinomyces and Aspergillus spp. and others that are found in spoiled hay ...
  5. ... prehistoric Polynesian distribution of certain economic plants, especially Hibiscus tiliaceus Linnaeus. Phihppine J. Sc, Manila, 1920, xvU, ... Meninges optiques et m£ningites optiques primitives. 17.spp. .^ Paris, 1911, No. 422. Bourdier tj.eon). *Recherche ...