OF FOREST-TREES. 



but easily l^propagated by layers ; if skilfully pruned, it grows to a goodly cHAP. 

 tree, patient of our clime, unless the weather be very severe ; it may be "^■"^""^^ 

 contrived into most beautiful palisades, and is ever verdant : I am told 

 the tree grows to a huge bulk and height on Mount Athos, and in other 

 countries. A'^irgil reports its inoculation with the nut. Bauhinus com- 



never produces fruit in England, and it is with difSculty that the plants themselves are kept 

 alive in this country. 



4, ARBUTUS f ALPINA ) caulibus proCumbentibus, foliis rugosis serratis. Lin. Sp. PI. 566. 

 Arbutus with trailing stalks and rough sawed leaves. Vitis idaea foliis oblongis albicantibus.— - 

 C. B. P. 470. Vitis idaea. Clus. Hist. Alpine strawberry-tree. 



This grows naturally on the Alps and the Helvetian mountains. It never rises high, hut sends 

 out from the root many slender branches, which trail upon the ground, and are garnished 

 with oblong, rough leaves of a pale green colour ; the flowers are produced from the %vings 

 of the leaves, upon long slender foot-stalks, and are succeeded by berries about the size 

 of the common black cherry, which are first green, afterwards red, and when ripe are black. 

 These are of a pleasant taste, so are frequently eaten by the inhabitants of those countries 

 where they grow naturally. This is a very difficult plant to keep alive in gardens, for it is 

 an inhabitant of bogs, growing among moss, where the ground is never dry. Mr. Lightfoot 

 discovered it growing in great abundance in the north of Scotland between Loch Broom and 

 Loch Mari. 



5. ARBUTUS (vvA ursi) caulibus procumbentibus, foliis integerrimis. Lin. Sp. PI. 566. 

 Arbutus with trailing stalks and entire leaves. Uva Ursi. Clus. Plist. Trailing arbutus, 



or BEARBERRY. 



This grows naturally upon the mountains in Spain, and in most of the northern parts 

 of Europe. The branches trail on the ground, and are closely garnished with smooth, thick 

 leaves of an oval form, placed alternately ; the flowers are produced in small bunches toward 

 the extremity of the branches, which are shaped like those of the common sort, but smaller ; 

 and are succeeded by berries, of the same size with those of the former sort, which are red 

 when ripe. The leaves of this species of Arbutus have been greatly celebrated in calculous 

 and nephritic complaints, and other disorders of the urinary passages : the dose is half 

 a drachm of the powder of the leaves, every morning, or two or three times a-day. De Haen 

 relates, after great experience of this medicine in the hospital of Vienna, that suppurations, 

 though obstinate and of long continuance, in the kidneys, ureters, bladder, tirethra, 

 scrotum, and perinsEum, where there was no venereal taint or evident marks of a calculus, 

 were in general completely cured by it : that of those who had a manifest calculus, several 

 found permanent relief, so that, long after the medicine had been left ofi", they continued 

 free from pain, or inconvenience in making water, though the catheter shewed that the 

 calculus still remained : that others, who seemed to be cured, relapsed on leaving off the 

 medicine, but were again relieved on repeating its use, and this for several times successively ; 

 while others obtained from it only temporary and precarious reUef, the complaints being 



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