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B. Leaves circular, scolloped, na'na 



D*V&. h. s.-FL Ross* 40. D. E. F. G-Amcen. academ. 1. at 

 p. 351-FI. lapp. 6. A-Lightf. 25. */ ii. /. 575-Fi. 

 t dan. 91. - 



Shrub- upright. Trunk hard, stiff. .S^ri brown, roughish, 

 resembling that of the Ulmus campestris. Branches expanding, 

 straight, scattered, tapering, woolly, somewhat gummy at the 

 ends. Leaves rather broader than they are long. Stokes, com- 

 monly 3 from each bud, Lightf. but frequently single and alter- 

 nate, generally entire at the base, scollops often pointed. Catkins 

 about half an inch long. Woodward. 



Mountains and wet heaths, in Scotland. S. May.* 





MYRI'CA. Flowers in catkins, on different plants. 



Cal. 2 leaves : bJoss. none. 

 Fern. Drupa 1 -celled, superior: seed I. 



M. Leaves spear-shaped; somewhat serrated: stem shrub- Gale. 

 , like. % 



E. bot. 562-Kaipb. 9-Fl. dan. 32~~Ger. 1228-Gars. 397-Dod. 



780. 2-Ger. em. UU-J. B. i. b. 225-Lob. adv. 417, 

 ic. ii. 110. 2-Lob. obs. 547. 2-Park. 1451. 5. 



cogs for mill wheels, and various articles of the Turner are made of it. 

 The bark gives a red colour, and, with the addition of copperas, a black. 

 H is also used to dye brown, particularly thread, and for colours to be 

 saddened with copperas. It is principally used by fishermen to stain 

 their nets. In the Highlands of Scotland near Dundonald, Mr. Pennant 

 says, the boughs cut in the summer, spread over the fields, and left dur- 

 ing the winter to rot are found to answer as a manure. In March the 

 ground is cleared of the undecayed parts, and then ploughed. The fresh 

 gathered leaves are covered with a glutinous liquor ; and some people 

 *trew them upon their floors to destroy fleas; the fleas are said to be en- 

 tangled in the tenacious liquor, as birds are by bird lime. The catkins dye 

 green.— The whole plant is astringent. It gives food to many kinds of 

 moths and other insects. Horses, cows, goats, and sheep eat it. Swine 

 refuse it. If planted in a low meadow the ground surrounding it will be- 

 come boggy, whereas, if Ash be planted, the roots of which penetrate a 

 great way, and run near the surface, the ground will become firm and dry. 



Mr. Woodward. . 



* Linnaeus somewhere observes that the plants which chiefly grow 

 ll pon mountains, are hardly found any where else but in marshes. Pro- 

 bably because the clouds resting upon the tops of the mountains keep the 

 *** in a moist state as is done by the fogs in meadows and marshes, which 

 *re nothing but clouds in the lower part of the atmosphere.— The leaves 

 dye a finer yellow than that yielded by the Betula alba. It affords the 

 Laplander, in the summer when he lives on the mountains, fuel for the 

 hrcs which he is obliged constantly to keep in his hut to defend him from 

 the gnats, and covered with the skin of therein deer, it forms his bed. 

 Linn. —The harness for horses in some parts of the highlands of Scotland 

 M made of the twisted twigs of birch. GarncWs fur. 









