96 «The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
The CoRNEL-T REE. 
CORNUS MOS, 
A Garden Tree of the Bignefs of an Apple Tree, \ 
and branched like one; the Bark is greyifh, 4 
the Twigs are tough, the Leaves are oblong, — 
broad, and pointed, of a fine green Colour, but 
not ferrated at the Edges.. The Flowers are {mall — 
and yellowifh, the Fruit is of the Bignefs of a 
Cherry, but oblong, not round; it is redand — 
lefhy, of an aftringent Bark, and has a large Stone. 
The Fruit is ripe in Aurumn ; the Flowers ap-_ 
pear early. We 
The Fruit is the Part ufed, it may be dried and — 
ufed, the Juice boiled down with Sugar, cither 
Way it is cooling and moderately aftringent; 
itis a gentle pleafant Medicine in Fevers with 
Purgings. ae, 
There is a wild Cornel Tree, called the female 
Cornel in our Hedges, a Shrub five Feet high; 
with broad Leaves, and black Berries, it is not 
1 Medicine. In fome Parts of the //’¢?-Jt- 
§ the ao Fifh with the Bark of : 7 
Ol this kind, by only putting a Quantity of it in 
the Water of a Pond . oe ei wheth 
- this of ours will do the fame. ee 
