BUCKTHORN TRIBE. 



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the size of sloes, and containing large stones. The pulp 

 is mealy, and of a delicious flavour. Under tKe name 

 of seedra, or sadr, it still affords food to the Arabs, who 

 separate the pulp from the stone by gently pounding the 



RHAMNUS CATHARTICUS (Common Buckthorn). 



fruit in a mortar, and either convert it into a kind of 

 bread at once, or lay it by for winter use. A kind of 

 wine is also made from the fruit, but this will not. keep 



