626 DIOECIA MONADELPHIA. 



In Carniola^ and fome parts of France^ the inhabi- 

 tants make a wine of the berries, fteep'd in 

 water. 



In Germany they are bruifed, and put into the 

 fauce made ufc of for a wild boar, and are fre- 

 quently eaten alfo with other pork, to give it 

 the wild-boar flavour. 



Thruflies and grous feed on them, and diflcminate 

 the feed in their dung. 



TAXUS. Gen.pL 1135. 



MAS. Cal. 3-phyllus gemma?. Ccr. o, Stamhts 

 multa. Anther a peltatse 8-fidas. 



FEM. Cal. 3-phillus gemmae. Cor* o. Stylus o, 

 Sem- I, calyculo baccato, integerrimo. 



iaccata i. TAXUS foliis approximatis. Sj>. pL 1472. {Ger. 



em, 1370.; 



The Yew-Trec. Jnglis. 



An t iudhar. Gaulis. 



It is found here and there in the Highlands, in a 

 truly wild ftate. At Glenure, near Glen-Creran^ 

 in Upper-Lorn^ are the remains of an old wood 

 of it. The place takes it's name from the trees 

 --which grow in it, for Glenure, in the Gaulic lan- 

 guage, is no other than a corruption of G/ean^ 

 iuir, i. e. The valley of yew-trees, h . III. 



It 



