PIOECJA TRIANDRIA. Gi:^ 



. ■ The Highlanders frequently eat the berries, but 



they are no very defirable fruit. If taken too 

 copiouHy they are reported fometimes to brin» 

 on a flight head-ach. Boil'd in allum-warer they 

 will dye yarn of a black fufcous colour. 



., , MYRICA. Gen. pi. 1107. 



MASC. Ametiti fquama lunata. Cor. o. 



FEM. Amenti fquama lunata. Cor. o. Styli 2. Bac~ 

 ca i-fperma. ,j • 



ga e I. MYRrCA foliis lanceolatis fubferratis, caule fuf- 



fruticofo. Sp.pL 1453. i^^r. em. 1414. Oed. Datu 

 t. '>,!']. ton.) 

 Gale, Goule, Sweet Willow, or Dutch Myrtle, 



Anglis- 

 Roid. Gmlis. Gaul, Scot is. 

 In bogs and moorifli grounds in the Highlands and 



Hebrides very frequent and plentiful, h . V. 

 This fhrub grows ered, and is two or three feet 

 high. The branches are covered with a dark 

 fufcous bark. The leaves are obrufelv ellipti- 

 cal, or wedge-lhap'd, and ferrated towards the 

 extremity. The gems or buds which produce 

 the catkins are placed at the fummits of the 

 branches, above the leaves, fo that when the 

 > work of frudlification is perfedled, the extremi- 



ties of the flowering twigs perifh, and the infe- 

 rior buds produce leaves. The catkins are of a 

 iliort, oval figure, yellowifh brown colour, and 



are 



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