512 Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
Geek oN Wego o% XII. 
SEA BUCKTHORN, 
RHAMNOIDES. 
HE male flower has a cup formed of one leaf, divided into two parts, and whole at the 
bottom ; the points of the two fegments converge 5 but they gape at the fides: there are noe 
petals, but only four filaments in this: the female flower has a tubular cup, divided alfo into two 
parts at the edge; and init a rudiment of the fucceeding berry. : 
Sea Buckthorn. green on the upper fide, and of a filvery grey 
Rb He underneath. 
SA eal The flowers are greenifh and the berries yel- 
It is a fhrub of eight feet high. low. 
The branches are numerous, and the bark is. We have it on the fea-coafts. 
pale. ~C. Bauhine calls it Rhamnus falicifolio angufto. 
‘The leaves are long and narrow, of a pale 
GE Nee UP “Sa. XIV, 
YEW. 
FARR S. 
FITHER the male nor female fower have cup or “petals. The male confifts of numerous 
filaments united at their bottom; the female of a rudiment of the fruit. This is fingular, 
and unlike that of all known plants, a fingle feed covered with a firm fkin, and furrounded by 
a juicy fubftance, 
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Linneus places this among the diacia monadelphia. 
The Yew-Tree. .. The berries are furrounded with a fweet juicy 
Taxus vulgaris. Wgergaier ayes ; 
eas We have it in woods, but more in gardens. 
It grows to an irregular tree, fpreading wildly All authors call it Taxus. 
into branches. 
The leaves are long, narrow, and placed with | The leaves are poifonous ; but the wood, if it 
a beautiful regularity. grew with more regularity, would be very va- 
The flowers are yellowifh. luable. 
Gy Ee a NS eS XV. 
POPLAR. 
POPULUS. 
HE male flowers have no petals: they are placed in catkins, and confift of a nectarium, 
which is hollow, and cut off obliquely at the top fo as to form an oval rim; and with this 
eight filaments with large buttons, but no rudiment of a feed-veflel. The female flowers are 
formed and difpofed as the male; but they have the rudiment of a feed-veifel, and no filaments. 
The feed-veflels are oval, and the feeds downy. 
The White Poplar. ~_C. Bauhine calls it Populus alba majoribus feliis. 
Lu Olas We have two other fpecies. 
The tree is tal], and its bark whitifh, 1. The black poplar, Populus nigra. The 
The leaves are large, broad, finuated, and leaves divided like ivy, and of a blackifh 
hung on long footftalks: they are of a deep green. 
green on the upper fide, and white underneath. | 2- The Afpen-tree, or trembling Poplar, Popu- 
The flowers are brownith, lus tremula. ‘The leaves roundifh, on very 
We have it by waters. long, flender footftalks. 
Gee EON Ua ES XVI. 
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HIE male flowers are placed in catkins, and confift of a hollow ne¢tarium. and two filaments. 
The female flowers are hung in catkins, like the male, and confift only of a rudiment of a” 
fruit. The feed-veflel is oval and pointed. The feeds are downy. ae 
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