712 ORD. XLI, Scabride. 
all the medicines usually employed in such cases had failed. A 
remarkable instance of its efficacy also in lepra vulgaris, affecting 
the whole body, is related by Banau;* who proposes the use of 
Elm bark in various other diseases, as fluor albus, rheumatism, old 
ulcers, cancerous and scrophulous affections, tinea capitis, Scurvy, 
&c. In very obstinate cases it is necessary to came in the 
use of the decoction for some months. : 
© See Journ. de Paris, 1783. n. 255. 
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MORUS NIGRA. COMMON MULBERRY TREE. 
ene, er Se ae, anaes ENN ot eh 
SYNONYMA. Morum. Pharm. Lond. Morus fructu nigro. 
' Bauh. Pin. p. 459. Morus. Gerard. Emac. p. 1507. Morus 
nigra. J. Bauh. Hist. vol.i.p.118.  Raii Hist. p. 1429. Park, 
Parad. p. 596. Du Hamel Traité des arbres fruitiers, tom. i. p. 
335. Hunt. Evel. vol. ii. p. 39. 
Class Monoecia. Ord. Tetrandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1055. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Mase. Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. 0. 
Fem. Cal. 4-phyllus, Cor.0. Styli 2. Cal. bac- 
catus. Sem. 1. 
Sp. Ch. M. foliis cordatis scabris. 
THIS tree never grows to a considerable height, but sends off 
several crooked branches, and is covered with rough brown bark : 
the leaves are numerous, heart-shaped, serrated, veined, rough, of 
a bright green colour, and stand upon short footstalks: the flowers 
are male and female upon the same tree:* the male flowers are 
placed in close roundish catkins, each floret composed of a calyx, 
* This is not constantly the case, as it sometimes happens that all the flowers 
-are male, or female, and consequently barren, 
