OF TREES AND PLANTS. 143" 



the ifle of Skie, and in the Skle-ijle, the natives are faid to bathe 

 their children in the infufion of the wood, when the fmall pox 

 is epidemical, and thofe who neglect this precaution are obferved 

 to die, of which there are feveral inftanccs *.. 



9. The Sweet Briar or Eglantine (p). On the edge of the military 

 road by the iath mile-ftone, on the weft-fide, about forty yards 

 from it. There is a very large bufh of it, grateful by its fcent 

 to the paflenger. I have alfo obferved it growing fparingly on* 

 the bank on the north fide of the Coquet^ at JVarkivortb, almoft 

 oppofite to the church. 



10. The Framboifei Hmdbcrry^ or Rqfpberry (q). About hedges ,. 

 and in woods, in ftony places, plentifully. On the north fide of 

 the brook below Tecket, among the moift rocks, it bears as large 

 fruit as any I have feen in gardens, the branches hanging over 

 the rocks, and down to the ground, with their weight j of a moft 

 grateful tafte, far fuperior to thofe that are under culture, and 

 nourimed with dungs. 



11. DOUBLE white-flowered Deivberry-BuJh (r). In a ftony place 

 near the foot of the bank in Tecket-vfood, by the path leading 



* Ph. Tr. No. 312;. 



(p) Rofa fylveftris foliis odoratis. Dod. Pempt. p. 187. C. B. Pin. p. 483. Rofa foliis 

 odoratis, Eglantina difla. I. B. II. p. 42. Rofa Eglanteria. Taberm. Icon. 1087. "Rofa. 

 aculeata foliis odoratis fubtus rubiginofis. Linn. Sp. PI. 491. Rofa foliis fubtus rubiginofis 

 et odoratis. Hall. Helv. p. 350. 



(q) Rubus Idasus fpinofus. C. B. Pin. p. 479. Tour/i. Inft. p. 614. Martyn. Tournr. 

 II. p. 223. Rubus Idaeus ;'pinofus frudu rubro. 7. B. 11. p. 59. Roj. Hift. 11. p. 

 1640. Syn. iii. p. 467. P. jbus Jdaeus, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 324. Rubus caule ere&o 

 hifpido, foliis ternatis. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 204. Hort. Cliff, p. 192. Royen. lugdb. p. 

 273. Rubus foliis ternatis & quinatis, cofta plerumque inermi, fruftu rubro, villofo. 

 Hall. Helv. p. 344. 



(r) Rubus caule aculeato, foliis ternatis, flore albo pleno. 



weftward 



