Note 582 — I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. (continued 5)
Reading edition
In 1865, 10 packages of this drug containing about 15 cwt. were consigned to me for sale in London by a friend in China, who had purchased the drug under the notion that it was true myrrh. The commodity was bad of its kind, and was sold with difficulty at 30s. per cwt.—D. H.