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berries, Mulberries, Red Currants, Cranberries and 

 other acid berries, but none is so good, lacking either 

 the diuretic or diaphoretic property. 



Remarks — The Arhiitus Unedo or Strawberry 

 tree of Europe, is a fine evergreen and ornamental 

 shrub, producing large berries similar to Strawberries, 

 but belonging to different orders of plants, the Bi- 

 coRNES and Decaiidria Monogynia like the Arbutus 

 Uva ursu These berries are edible but less acid than 

 Strawberries, and they are eunetic even at a moderate 

 dose, as I have myself experienced. This fine shrub 

 does not grow in the United States, except in gardens. 



The Evonymiis Jlmericaniis is also called Straw- 

 berry shrub with us; but erroneously, since the her- 

 lies hardly resemble Strewberries, being depressed, 

 with four or five warty lobes, not eatable, and without 

 any of their properties. The leaves of this shrub, 

 however, as well as of Evonymus atropurptireus (the 

 Wahoon or Arrow wood of the West and South) make 

 a fine pectoral tea, much used for colds, coughs, ca- 

 tarrh, influenza, &:c. The leaves of the Crategus 

 cniS'galliy or White-thorn are also used' for the same 



purpose. 



