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ULMUS CAMPESTRIS. ORD. XLI. Scabride. Til 
permanent, and divided at the border into five segments: there is 
no corolla: the five filaments are tapering, twice as long as the: 
calyx, and furnished with short upright anthere, marked with four 
furrows: the germen is round, compressed, upright, and supports 
two styles, which. bend outwards, and are terminated by downy 
stigmata: the fruit is an oval large berry, which is without j juice, 
and of a membranous texture: the seed is round, but somewhat 
compressed, 
Be his tree, of which theré i is one variety with smaller leaves, and 
ves, Baie in Worcestershire 
Brailes but is said not to be found to the-north of Stamford: 
The inner tough bark, which is directed for use by arma- 
copeeias, has no remarkable smell, but has a bitterish taste, and 
xboynds with a slimy juice, which has been recommended in 
nephritic cases, and externally as a useful application to burns. 
The external bark is brittle, contains but little mucilage, and is 
wholly destitute of both smell and taste. The internal bark of the 
branches is more bitter than that of the trunk, and therefore 
probably more efficacious. 
The complaints for which it is chiefly recommended, are those 
of the cutaneous kind allied to herpes and lepra. Dr. Lysons* 
mentions five cases of inveterate eruptions, both dry and humid, 
or those forming incrustations, which were successfully treated by 
a decoction of this bark, prepared from four ounces of it taken 
fresh; and boiled in two quarts of water to one; of this the 
patients were usually directed to drink half a pint twice a day. 
But as he added nitre to the decoction, and also frequently had 
recourse to purgatives, it may be doubted if these cures ovightets to 
be wholly ascribed to the Elm bark. 
Dr. Lettsom > found this bark most effectual in what he supposes 
to be the lepra ichthyosis of Sanvages, in which it succeeded after 
~  4* See Med. Transactions, vol. #. p. 203. 
.* See Medical Memoirs, ~. 152. 
