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The Highlanders frequently eat the berries, but 

 they are no very defirable fruit. If taken too 

 copioufly they are reported fometimes to bring 

 on a flight head-ach. Boil'd in allum-water they 

 will dye yarn of a black fufcous colour. 



MYRICA. Gen. pi. 1107. 



MASC. Amenti fquama lunata. Cor. o. 



FEM. Amenti fquama lunata. Cor. o. Styli 2. Eac- 

 ca i-fperma. 

 ik I. MYRICA foliis lanceolatis fubferratis, caule fuf- 



fruticofo. Sp.pL 1453. C^*^^- ^^'- ^4H- 0^^« ^^^' 

 ;. 327. bon.) 



Gale/ Goule, Sweet Willow, or Putch Myrtle. 

 AngliS' 



Roid. Gaulis. Gaul. Scotis. 



In bogs and moorilh grounds in the Highlands and 

 Hebrides very frequent and plentiful, h . V. 



This Ihrub grows ereft, and is two or three feet 

 high. The branches are covered with a dark 

 fufcous bark. The leaves are obtufelv ellipti- 

 cal, or wedge-Ihap'd, and ferrated towards the 

 extremity. The gems or buds which produce 

 the catkins are placed at the fummits of the 

 branches, above the leaves, fo that when the 

 work of fruftification is perfeded, the extremi- 

 ties of the flowering twigs perifli, and the infe- 

 rior buds produce leaves. The catkms are of a 

 ihort, oval figure, yellowifh brown colour, and 



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