RHAMNALS. 163 
Uimes. Linneus. 
Fruit thin, 2-winged, veiny, indehiscent. 
1. U. montana Smith.—(Wircs-Eum.) Fig. 233. 
Leaves obovate, cuspidate, doubly and coarsely serrate ; 
: branches cinereous, smooth. 
Habita:, Great Britain, &c. 
Quality. Inner bark mucilaginous, bitter, astrin- 
gent, diaphoretic, diuretic. 
Cutaneous eruptions, ichthyosis ; a substitute 
for Sarsaparilla ; wood the basis of some soft 
snuffs, 
. 
Natural Order, Rhamnads ; Rhamnacewe (V. K., p- 581.) — 
Prevailing Quality. Purgative. 
| Ruamnus. Linneus. 
Calya campanulate, 4.5-cleft, circumscissile after flowering. Fruit globose, 
_Yather dry, or spongy, or succulent, with 2 to 4 stones. 
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233.—Leaf of Ulmus montana; a, its flowers, natural size; b, a flower cut open and magnified. 
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