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5. Dwarf-Elder, Walivort, or Daneivort (k). On the weft fide of 

 the church-yard-wall at Chat ton, by the river Till. At Purloy-Green, 

 near Sbit/iqgton-hall, in Tynedale, plentifully. In a farm-yard at 

 Tecket, fparingly. It flowers in June. The flowers are white, in 

 large umbels'; the fruit black. It is diuretic and aperient, ufed 

 in obftruclions of the Vifcera, droplies, and jaundices. For in- 

 flammations, fcalds, burns, and the venomous bite of any ani- 

 mal, it has been ufed with eminent fuccefs. It is faid alfo to 

 afliiage the pain of the gout. It has an agreeable fmell in an ; 

 ointment f . 



6. The Euonymus (I}. At the weft end of the reclory-wood at 

 Simonburn. At Capons-clugh, near AllerivaJJj ; alfo in the Bnjh-"wood, 

 on the banks of South Tyne, near the fame place. The older moots 

 are four-eornered ; the corners or angles brown ; the flat fides of 

 a pea-green. The younger moots are all green, refembling jef- 

 famy. The flowers are at the extremity of the branches, of a 

 yellowifli-white. The fruit is angular, of a purplifh-red, with 

 an ovated feed of a bright orange-yellow. It flowers with us in 



(k) Ebulus. Dad. Pempt. p, 381. Ebuliis, Chamaea&e. Offic. Dal. Pharm. p, 319. 

 Ebuius live Sambucus humilis. Ger. p, 1238. emac. p. 1426. Park. Theatr. p. 208. 

 Ebulus five Sambucus herbacea. I. B. i. p. 546. Sambucus humilis five Ebulus. C. B. 

 Pin. p. 456. Raj. Hift. n. 1611. Syn. iii. p. 461. Tourn. Inft. p. 606. Martin. 

 Tourn. n. p. 234. Sambucus caule herbaceo fimpliciffimo. Linn. V'irid. Cliff, p. 25. 

 Hort. Cliff, p. no. Roytn. lugdb. p. 243. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 353. Sambucus her- 

 bacea, floribus umbellatis. Hall. Helv. p. 466. 



f For its medical powers, fee Martyn's Tourn. loco citato. 



(I) Euonymus. Dod. Pempt. p. 783. tene, fed foliis integris, Tab. p. 1647, foiiis ferra- 

 tis. Cam. Epit. p. 102. bene, cum Chara&ere Gefn. Tourn. Inftit. p. 617. bene. Boetb. 

 Ind. A. ii. p. 237. Euonymus Theophrafti. Ger. p. 1284. emac. p. 1468. Euonymus, 

 Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 321. Euonymus foliis oblongo-ovatis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 38. 

 Flo. Suec. p. 47. n. 138. Royen. 436. Hall. Helv. p. 423, 



June. 



