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and poets were always crowned, and Chrysocarpa, from 

 the golden colour of the berries. The white has become 

 extinct; but the black and the yellow still exist. It has 

 been supposed, that the yellow is only a variety of the black ; 

 Tournefort, however, who found it here, describes it as a 

 separate species. "Les feuilles," says he, " sont d'un vert 

 " plus gai que celles du lierre commun, et ses bouquets 

 " couleur d'or lui donnent un eclat particulier.*" This is 

 true ; and the whole appearance and character of the plant 

 is very different from the other. The seeds of the Hedera 

 Chrysocarpa were formerly used in medicine, and taken 

 internally for dropsy and haemoptosis ; a decoction, poured 

 into the opposite ear, was applied as a cure for the tooth-ache ! 

 The juice of the recent berry was also taken as a remedy against 

 the effects of intoxication. It is still sold in the herb-shops 

 of Constantinople, and used by the Hakims medicinally ; 

 and the hard berry is inserted in issues. It is, however, a 

 rare plant, and after a search of three years, I only found a 

 single specimen, growing over the wall of an hospital in the 

 vicinity of Pera. It is not noticed in the Prodromus to Sib- 

 thorp's Flora Graeca. 



Prunus Cerasus ; two varieties. 

 The first of these varieties is a Cherry of enormous size, 

 that grows along the northern coast of Asia Minor, from whence 

 the original Cherry was brought to Europe, f It is cultivated 

 in gardens always as a standard, and by a graft. The gardens 

 consist wholly of Cherry-trees, and each garden occupies 

 several acres of ground. You are permitted to enter these, and 



* Tournefort, Voyage du Levant, torn. i. let. 12. f Pun. Hist. Nat. Lib. *v. 



