54° 
table fubftances from putrefa&ion, it has been given with a view 
feptic effe&s. The candy, by dhTolving llowly in the m 
S 
ted to relieve tickling coughs and hoarfenefs 
The ufe of 
t-> 
*_ 
in various me 
being particularly pointt 
pofit 
too obvious to 
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«*«wa3Kr&cS3S^S 
ULMUS CAMPESTRIS. 
COMMON ELM. 
S TNONTMA. Ulmus. Pbarm. Land. & Edinb. Ulmus cam- 
peftris et Theophrafti. Baub. Pin. p. 426. Ulmus vulgaris. 
Park. 
Tbeat. p. 1404. Ulmus vulgatiffima folio lato, fcabro. Gerard. 
Emac. p. 1 
Helv. n. 1 5 
o. 
Raii Hijl.p 
4 2 5 
Synop.p. 468. Hall. Stirp 
86 
U. campeflris. HudfonFlor. Aug. p. 109 
Bot. Arr. ^.258. R elban Flor. Cant, p 
* 
Evelyn s Sylva by Hunter, p. 11 
06 
Ic. Flor. Dan. 63 
*> 
Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 316 
Ef.Ge 
n. 
Cb. 
* 
Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. nulla. 
Bacca exfucca, compreflo 
membranacea. 
Sp. Cb* 
XJ. foliis duplicato-ferratis ; ban inasqualibus 
■ * 
THIS is very common in the neighbourhood of London, where 
grows 
onfiderable height, fends off ftrong branch 
d 
is 
overed with rough cracked brown bark : the leaves are ovate, rough 
9 
doubly ferrated, and Hand 
ely upon ftrong footftalks : the 
leaf-buds 
the 
ca 
flowers appear before the leaves, on fhort fpikes at the bottom of the 
is turban-ihaped, wrinkled, permanent, and 
s no corolla : the five 
c. and furnifhed with 
divided at the border into five fegments : th 
filaments are tapering, twice as long as the caly 
fhort 1 
pright antherae, marked with four furrows : the germen is 
round, compreffed, upright, and fupports two ftyles, which bend 
wards, and are terminated by downy ftigmata ; the fruit is an 
oval 
large 
