BO 8 AGE JS. 



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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 



diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, and certain hsemorrhages ; oil is contained in 



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



Couepia and Parinari. In P. senef/ale7ise,' this oil soon turns rancid 



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



Couepias of the same country have an edible mesocarp, especially 



C. guianensii and chrysocalijx:' The fruits of Parinari montana 



and P. campestre^ 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. excelsimv' is far preferable ; that of Licania iticana, 



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



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



oi AmelancJder, Osteomeles, Baphiolepis, and especially the Loquat /' the 



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



Sweet {Ulmaire), the fleshy swellings on that of Drop wort {Filipen- 



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



Roses. In the wild Rose or Eglantine'' [Eglanfier), the fruits with 



their envelopes constitute Hips {Cpwrrhodous, figs. 877, 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 tlie 

 same end ; and omitting ClirysohalanecB, nearly all the Rosacea3 will 



ellipticus Sol., ex Sab., Trans. Linn. Soc, v. 

 453. — Mart., Fl. Bras., Rosac, 76. 



• Peeb., DC, Prodr., ii. 527 ; Fl. Sen. Tent., 

 273, t. Ixi. — Neou Adans., ex J. 



2 AuBL., G-uian., i. 521, t, 207. 



^ Benth., in Exs. Sprue, ex Hook. F., in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras., Rosac, 4-2.—Moqnilea cliry- 

 socalyx Pcepp. & Endl., Nov. Oen. et Spec, i. 

 75, t. 286, C. 



•« AUBL., op. cit., 514, t. 204-206. 



^ Sab., Trans. Lirni. Soc, v. 451. — Rich., 



GuiLL. & Perk., Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 274, t. 

 Ixii. (Rough-skbiJied or Qrey Plum of the 

 English colonists ; — Mampata Adans., ex J.). 



" Eriohotrya japonica Lixdl., Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, xiii. 102. — Cratreyus Bibas Loi'R., Fl. 

 Cochinch., i. 31)1. — Mespilus japonica TuuXB., 

 Fl. Jap., 206. — KosENTH., op. cit., 949. 



1 L., Spec, 704.— DC, Prodr., ii. 613, n. 75. 

 — GuiB., op. oil., 272. — Endl., Envhir., 1)61. — 

 LiNUL., Veg. Kingd., 561; FL Med., 220.— 

 Pereiba, op. cit., 287. — Kosentti., op. cit., 955. 



