No. 96. XANTHOXYLON. 11 



equally nourishing. The flour of beans is one of the four 

 resolvent flours of the Galenic school, employed medi- 

 cally for poultices over tumors, swelled glands, impos- 

 thumes, and even cancer, to promote suppuration. The 

 internal use is said to be useful in gravelly and nephitic 

 complaints- 



The Vicia sativa or Common Vetch, a native with us, 

 is cultivated in Europe for fodder, and the small round 

 seeds similar to Peas ; it is also neglected as yet with 

 us, and being inferior to Vicia faha^ is not so commenda- 

 ble : it can, however, be cultivated broad cast, while 

 the Bean requires to be drilled, unless it is wanted for 

 mere fodder. We have several other species of native 

 Viciaj V. craccoides^ V. americana, F. caroliniana^ all 

 much liked by cattle, and whose cultivation might be 

 attempted. My F. craccoides is the F cracca of our 

 botanists, but is very different from the European species. 



No. 96. XANTHOXYLON FRAXINEUM. 



Names. Shrubby Prickly Ash- Fr. Xanthoxyle frene. 

 Vulgar. Toothache Bush,'^Pellitory, Yellow Wood, Su- 



terberry. 



Classif. Nat, Order of Cnestides. Peatandria tri- 



gynia L. 



Genus Xanthoxylon'. Calyx 5 parted- No corolla. 



A central disk bearing 3 or 5 stamens and 2 to 5 pistils, 

 becoming 2 to 5 capsules, bivalve one seeded. Com- 

 monly polygamous. Trees or shrubs with pimxate or 



ternate leaves. 



Sp* Xanthoxylon fraxineum. Prickly. Leaves pinnate 

 with 9 or 11 folioles opposite, ovate acute, subentire: 

 umbels lateral, 3 or 4 stipitate pistils and capsulea. 



DESCRIPTION. Shrub 5 to 10 feet high, branches 

 alternate, with scattered prickles, sharp, strong and 

 straio-ht. Leaves alternate, oddly pinnate, petiole 

 rounS, often inerme, folioles 9 or 11 opnosite, nearly 

 sessile, ovate very sharp, with slight glandular serratures, 

 somewhat downy beneath. Flowers in small sessile um- 

 bels, near the origin of young shoots, small and greenish. 



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