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1. Jagged-leaved Elder. 
Sambucus foliis laciniatis. 
The fhrub grows irregularly to ten or twelve 
feet high. 
The bark is whitifh and rough. 
The young fhoots are thick, green, and tender. 
The leaves are placed on divided footftalks ; 
and are themfelves alfo parted into feveral ob- 
long, jagged, and indented feoments. 
The flowers are white; and the berries, when 
ripe, are black. 
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We have it in hedges, but not common, It 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sambucus laciniato folio. 
We have three other fpecies wild in England 
1. The Common Elder, Sambucus vulgaris. ‘The 
berries black, ; 
2. The White-berried Elder, Sambucus baccis 
albis. The berries of a greenifh white. 
3. The Dwarf Elder, Ebulus, five Sambucus bu- 
milis. A very powerful diuretick, 
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HE cup is divided into five oblong, hollow fegments. The flower is compofed of five broad 
petals, The fruit is roundifh, with a longitudinal furrow ; and contains under a flefhy fub- 
ftance an oblong ftone with a kernel. 
Linneeus places this among the icofandria monogynia. 
The Common Sloe. 
Prunus fylveftris vulgaris. 
The fhrub is rarely more than four feet high, 
The branches are thorny, and have a deep 
brown bark. 
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The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a fine 
green. 
The flowers are white; and the fruit, when 
tipe, is covered with a grey duft. 
It is common in hedges, and flowers in July. 
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CHERRY. 
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HE cup is hollow, and divided into five fegments at the edge. The flower is compofed of five 
broad, hollowed petals. 
1. The Clufter, or Birds Cherry. 
Cerafus avium racemofa. 
This rifes to a {mall tree. 
The bark is pale on the trunk, and darker 
on the branches. 
The leaves are oblong and ferrated. 
The flowers ftand in long clufters, and are 
white. 
The fruit is fmall. 
We have it in woods in the north of England. 
C, Bauhine calls it Cerafus racemofa fylveftris. 
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The fruit is roundifh, with a furrow; and contains a roundith ftone. 
We have four other fpecies. 
1. The Common, wild, red Cherry, Cera/us fl- 
veftris frufiu rubro, Much like the Flemith 
cherry. 
2, The black Cherry-tree, Cerafus fylueftris fruétu 
aigro, ‘The common, fmall, black Cherry, 
3. Small, wild, Heart Cherry, Cerafus fylvefiris 
Fruitu minimo cordiformi. In Wales. : 
4. The late wild Cherry, Cerafus fylveftris fepten- 
trionalis fruétu parvo ferotino. The fruit 
round and red. 
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4 “HE cup is very fmall, and is divided by five indentings at the edge. The flower is formed 
of a fingle petal; and is hollow, oval, and divided at the rim into five feoments, which 
turn back, The fruit refembles a common ftrawberry 5 but the feeds are within, not on the furface. 
Common Strawberry-Tree. — 
Arbutus vulgaris. 
Jt is a fmall tree; or oftener rifes in the fhrub | 
form. 
The leaves are oblong, and very beautifully. 
ferrated, 
The flowers are greenifh. 
The berries, when ripe, are red. 
It is wild in our northern counties. 
The fruit ripens in November. 
C. Bauhine calls it Arbutus folio ferrato. 
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