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circumference. The wood is tough and good 

 for the turner's use, being but little inferior to 

 box. Combs were formerly made of this 

 wood, particularly from the root. A decoc- 

 tion of the bark yields a yellow dye ; and with 

 copperas is used to dye black. Not only the 

 birds, but the peasants in many countries, eat 

 the haws, and in Kamschatka they are fer- 

 mented into wine. 



A variety of the common hawthorn, Cratce- 

 gus oxyacantha, has been discovered in a 

 hedge near Bampton, Oxfordshire, which 

 produces white berries. 



HAZEL. See Pomarium Britanmcum. 



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