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Sumach, differing from all that I did ever fee in the 
Herbalifts; our EngliJJi Cattle devour it moft abominably, 
leaving neither Leaf nor Branch, yet it fprouts again next 
Spring. 1 
For Colds. 
The EngliJJi ufe to boyl it in Beer, and drink it for 
Colds ; and fo do the Indians, from whom the EngliJJi had 
the Medicine. 
Wild Cherry, they grow in clufters like [61] Grapes, of 
the fame bignefs, blackifh, red when ripe, and of a harm 
tafte. 2 
For Fluxes. 
They are alfo good for Fluxes. 
Tranfplanted and manured, they grow exceeding fair. 
and perhaps, therefore, as our author gives his cloud-berry a place in this division 
of his book, he may have meant something else. 
1 Rhus, L. ; the species differing, as our author repeats in his Voyages (p. 71), 
" from all the kinds set down in our English herbals." Wood (N. Eng. Prospedt, 
chap, v.) calls it " the dear shumach." Josselyn's account of the virtues of our 
species, here, and especially in the Voyages (/. c), agrees so well with what Ge- 
rard says of the properties of the European tanner's sumach (R. coriaria, L.), 
that the latter may very likely have, in part, suggested the former. But see Cut- 
ler, /. c, p. 427. 
2 "The cherry-trees yield great store of cherries, which grow on clusters like 
grapes. They be much smaller than our English cherry; nothing near so good, 
if they be not fully ripe. They so furr the mouth, that the tongue will cleave to 
the roof, and the throat wax hoarse with swallowing those red bullies (as I may 
call them) ; being little better in taste" (that is, than bullaces). "English order- 
ing may bring them to an English cherry; but they are as wild as the Indians." 
— Nciv-Eiiglajid's Prospect, chap. v. The choke-cherry (Cerasus Virginiana 
(L.) DC.) and the wild cherry (C. serotina (Ehrh.) DC.) are meant. 
