256 ICOSANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



The Hawthorn, or White-Thorn, orQiiIck. Anglic 



An fgitheach. Gaulis. 



In woods and hedges. T? . VI; 



The number of fcyles, and feeds in the berries are 

 variable. In Camtfchatca the inhabitants both eat 

 the berries and make a wine of them : the high- 

 landers alfo eat them when thoroughly ripe : 

 fwine, deer, and birds are fond of them, parti- 

 cularly the thrufli kind. The neatefl and bed 

 hedges are well known to be made of the young ' 

 plants of this ihrub. A decodion of the bark 

 with copperas is ufed by the highlanders to dye 

 black. 



TRIGYNIA. 



SORBUS. Gen, pi. C23. 



Cal. 5-fiduS. Petala 5. Bacca infera, 3-fperma. 



SORBUS foliis pinnatis utrinque glabris. Sp. ft. 



6i^3. {Qer. em^ i47?J 

 The Quicken-Tree or Mountain Afh. Anglis. 

 The Roan-Tree. Scotis. Craobh-chaorain. Gaulis. 

 In woods, &c. frequent, in the lowlands and high- 

 lands. T? . VI. 

 Tne leaves are pinnated with about eight pair of |] 

 PinnuU, of an oval acute form, and ferreted on ' - 

 the edges : the flowers grow in white umbels, 

 upon branched peduncles ; the berries v/hen rips 

 are red, giving the tree an elegant glow in the 



autumn, 



