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What is a cascarilla?

What is a cascarilla? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton eleutheria).
  2. The aromatic bark of this shrub, formerly used as a gentle tonic or mixed with tobacco for smoking.
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The chief aromatic barks comprise the cinnamon, cassia lignea, cascarilla, and canella alba.
By moistening ordinary cigars with a strong tincture of cascarilla, to which a little gum benzoin and storax may be added.
Many persons very much object to the aroma of benzoin, while they greatly admire the fumes of cascarilla.
By simply inserting very small shreds of cascarilla bark between the leaves of the cigar or in small slits made for the purpose.
On the Cascarilla, and other species of Croton, of the Bahama and West India Islands.
Much better than plain water he considers water to which some light bitter has been added, such as cascarilla.

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