256 ICOSANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



The Hawthorn, or White-Thorn, or Q.uick. AngU$. 



An fgitheach. Gaulis, 



In woods and hedges, h . VI. 



The number of ftyles, and ^^tds in the berries are 

 variable. In Camifchatca the inhabitants both eat 

 the berries and make a wine of them : the high- 

 landers alfo eat them when thoroughly ripe : 

 fwine, deer, and birds are fond of them, parti- 

 cularly the thrufli kind. The neatefl and bed 

 hedges are well known to be made of the young 

 plants of this flirub. A decodion of the bark 

 with copperas is ufed by the highlanders to dye 

 black. 



TRIGYNIA. 



SORBUS. Gen. pL 623. 

 Cat. 5-fidus. Petala 5. Bacca infera, 3-fperma. 



aucupariai SORBUS foliis pinnatis utrinque glabris. Sp, pL 

 6H3. (Ger. em, I473>) 

 The Quicken-Tree or Mountain Afh. Anglis, 

 The Roan-Tree, ^cotis, Craobh-chaorain. Gaulis, 

 In woods, &c. frequent, in the lowlands and high- 

 lands. T? . VI. 

 Tije leaves are pinnated with about eight pair of 

 Pmnil^^ of an oval acute form, and ferrated on 

 the edges : the flowers grow in white umbels, 

 upon branched peduncles ; the berries when ripe 

 are red, giving the tree an elegant glow in the 



autumn. 



