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The Cornel Tree. 

 CORNUS MOS. 



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Garden Tree of the Bignefs of an Apple Tree, 

 and branched like one ; the Bark is greyilh, 

 the Twigs are tough; the Leaves are oblong, 

 broad, and pointed, of a fine green Colour, but 

 not ferrated at the Edges. The Flowers are fmail 

 and yellowilh, the Fruit is of the Bignefs of a 

 Cherry, but oblong, not round; it is red and 



flefliy, of an aftringent Bark, and has a large Stone. 

 The Fruit is ripe in Autumn ; the Flowers ap- 

 pear early. 



The Fruit is the Part ufed, it may be dried and 

 ufed, the Juice boiled down with Sugar, either 

 Way it is cooling and moderately aftringent ; 

 it is a gentle pleafant Medicine in Fevers with 

 Purgings. 



There is a wild Cornel Tree, called the female 

 Cornel in our Hedges, a Shrub five Feet high, 

 with broad Leaves, and black Berries, it is not 

 xifed in Medicine. In fome Parts of the Wefi-ln- 

 dies they intoxicate Filh with the Bark of a Shrub - 

 of this kind, by only putting a Quantity of it into 

 the Water of a Pond ; we have not tried whether 

 this of ours w^ill do the fame. 





Corn Marigold* 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SEGESTUM. 



^ Very beautiful wild Plant growing In Corn- 

 Fieids, with large biuifli Leaves, and full of 

 Flowers like Marigolds. It is two Feet high, 

 the Stalks are numerous, round, ftiff, tolerably 

 upright and . branched ; the Leaves Hand ir- 

 regularly, and are long, very broad, and of a 

 bluiih Green ; they are fmalleft towards the Bafe, 



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