tisna 2. 



MONOECIA TRIANDRlA. 575 



" the pith taken out, and then put any vefTels 

 " under to receive the liquor. If the tree be 

 " large, you may tap it in four or live places 

 " at a time without hurting it j and thus from 

 *' feveral trees you may gain feveral gallons of 

 " juice in a day. If you have not enough in 

 " one day, bottle up clofe what you have, till 

 " you get f fufficient for yourpurpole, but the 

 " fooner it is ufed the better. 



" Boil the fap as long as any icum rifes, ikimming 

 " it ail the time. To every gallon of liquor 

 " put four pounds of fugar, and boil it after- 

 " wards half an hour, fkimming it well \ then 

 *' put it into an open tub to cool, and when 

 " cold, tun it into your cafl<: -, when it has done 

 " working, bung it up clofe, and keep it three 

 " months. Then either bottle it off, or draw it 

 " out of the caili after it is a year old.'* 



This is a generous and agreeable liquor, and would 

 .be a happy fubftitute in the room of th« poifonous 



whilkey. 



BETULA foliis orbiculatis crenatis. Sp-pl 1394. 



(Fl. lappon- p. 266. t. 6./- 4. Osd. Ban, /. 91. ^ 



fig. noji.) 

 Dwarf Birch. Anglis. 

 This grows in great abundance in Corry-yeallin^ on 



the weft fide of the hill, diredly north from 



Miggernyy in Glenlyon^ in Bread&ibane^ as alfo in 



fome 



