[77] From δριμὺς, acrid, biting.
[78] Flora Antarctica, ii. (1847) 229.
[79] Martius, Flor. Bras. fasc. 38 (1864) 134. Eichler however admits five principal varieties, viz. α. Magellanica; β. Chilensis; γ. Granatensis; δ. revoluta; ε. angustifolia.
[80] Journ. des observations physiques, &c. iv. 1714. 10, pl. 6.
[81] Characteres Generum Plantarum, 1775. 42.
[82] We have seen it offered in a drug sale at one time as “Pepper Bark,” at another as “Cinchona.” Even Mutis thought it a Cinchona, and called it “Kinkina urens”!
[83] The structure of Winter’s Bark is beautifully figured by Eichler, loc. cit. tab. 32.
[84] Perez-Rosales, Essai sur le Chili, 1857. 113.
[85] Annals of Nat. Hist., May 1858; also Miers’ Contributions to Botany, i. 121, pl. 24, Bot. Magaz., Sept. 1874, vol. xxx. pl. 6121, and Bentley and Trimens’ Medicinal Plants, part 10.
[86] Phil. Trans. xvii for 1693. 465.