ROSACEA. 447 



and America : this fruit is sweet, but with an astringent aftertaste, 

 which is found in a greater degree in the root, bark, and leaves. All 

 these parts are used in America for different kinds of flux, such as 

 diarrhcea, leucorrhoea, and certain haemorrhages ; oil is contained in 

 the embryo. This too is the case with that of several species of 

 Couepia and Parinari. In P. senegalense, this oil soon turns rancid 

 and foetid ; in the Brazilian species it may be used in food. The 

 Coiiepias of the same country have an edible mesocarp, especially 

 C. guianensis' and chrysocalyx^ The fruits of Parinari montana 

 and P. campesfre* are also eaten in Guiana : the drupes of P. sene- 

 galense are sold in market at St. Louis ; the flesh is juicy but rather 

 austere. That of P. eoccelsuiit' is far preferable ; that oi Licania incana, 

 from Guiana, is sweet and melts in the mouth. Among the edible 

 products of the Rosacea we may also cite the fruits of several species 

 oi Amelanchier, Osteomeles, RapMoIepis, and especially the Loquat f the 

 leaves of the Burnets and several Alchemils ; the root of Meadow 

 Sweet {Ulmaire), the fleshy swellings on that of Dropwort {FUipen- 

 dide), and even the fleshy receptacle enclosing the true fruits of the 

 Eoses. In the wild Rose or Eglantine" {Eglantier), the fruits with 

 their envelopes constitute Hips {Cijnorrhodons, figs. 377, 378), which 

 are smooth, ovoidal, coral red, and may or may not be crowned by 

 the withered sepals. The flesh of the receptacle is of a more or less 

 reddish yellow colour ; from it is prepared Conserve of Hips. In very 

 many countries these fruits are supposed to share in the property of 

 curing hydrophobia, ascribed, though quite wrongly, to the stem and 

 especially the root of the Eglantine. 



The fruits of the Rosacea are also the ornaments of our parks and 

 gardens ; we may particularize the Service-trees and Hawthorns, and 

 the Fiery Thorn, The flowers are yet more frequently valued for the 

 same end ; and omitting Chrysohalanea, nearly all the Eosacese will 



ellipticm SoL., ex Sab., Trans. Linn. Soc, v. Guill. & Peeb., PI. Seneg. Tent., i. 274, t. 



453. — Maet., Fl. Bras., Rosac, 76. Ixii. (Rough-skinned or O-reg Plum of the 



^ Peeb., DC, Prodr., ii. 527 ; Fl. Sen. Tent., English colonists ; — Mampata Adans., ex J.). 



273, t. Ixi. — Neou Adans., ex J. * Eriohotrya japonica Lindl., Trans. Linn. 



^ AvBjj., G-uian., i. 521, t. 207. iSoc, xiii. 102.— Cratcegus Bibas LorE., Fl. 



3 Bentu., in E.CS. Sprue, ex HoOK. F., in Cochinch., i. 391. — Mespilus japonica Thuxb., 



Mart. Fl. Bras., Rosac, 42.—3Ioquilea cliry- Fl. Jap., 206. — Rosexth., op. cit., 949. 



socalyx Pcepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen. et Spec, i. ^ L., Spec, 704.— DC, Prodr., ii. 613, n. 75. 



75, t. 286, C — GuiB., op. cit., 272.— Endl., Enchir., 661.— 



* AUBL., ap. cit., 514, t. 204-206. Lindl., Veg. Kingd., 564; Fl. Med., 220. — 



* Sab., Trans. Linn. Soc, v. 451. — Rich., Pebeiba, op. cif., 287. — Rosenth., op. «Y., 955. 



