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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
GENUS xiir. 
SEA BUCKTHORN. 
R II A M N 0 I D E S. 
THE male flower has a cup formed of one leaf, divided into two parts, and whole at the 
bottom - the points of the two fegments converge ; but they gape at the fides: there are no 
petals, but only four filaments in this ; the female flower has a tubular cup, divided alio into two 
parts at the edge; and in it a rudiment of the fucceeding berry. 
Sea Buckthorn. 
Rhamnfjides. 
It is a (hrub of eight feet high. 
The branches are numerous, and the bark is 
pale. 
The leaves are long and narrow, of a pale 
GEN 
green on the upper fide, and of a filvery grey 
underneath. 
The flowers are greenifli and the berries yel- 
low. 
We have it on the fea-coafts. 
C. Bauliine calls ic Rhmnnus fal'idjolio angitjlo. 
U S XIV. 
YEW. 
• r A X u s. 
NEITHER the male >or female flower have cup or petals. The male confifts of numerous 
filaments united at their bottom ; the female of a rudiment of the fruit. This is Angular, 
and unlike that of all known plants, a fingle feed covered with a firm flcin, and furrounded by 
a iuicy fubftance. 
Linnsus places this among the diicdii momdelpbia. 
The Yew-Tree. 
'Taxus vulgaris. 
It grows to an irregular tree, fpreading wildly 
into branches. 
The leaves are long, narrow, and placed with 
a beautiful regularity. 
The flowers are yellowifii. 
The berries are furrounded with a fweet juicy 
matter. 
We have it in woods, but more in gardens. 
All authors call i{ Taxus. 
The leaves are poifonous ; but the wood, if it 
grew with more regularity, would be very va- 
luable. 
GENUS XV. 
POPLAR. 
P 0 P U L U S. 
fTPHE male flowers have no petals : they are placed in catkins, and confifl: of a ncftarlum, 
which is hollow, and cut off obliquely at the top fo as to form an oval rim ; and with this 
eight filaments with large buttons, but no rudiment of a feed-veflel. The female flowers are 
formed and difpofed as the male ; but they have the rudiment of a feed-veiTel, and no filaments. 
The feed-veffels are oval, and the feeds downy. 
The White Poplar. 
Popuhts alba. 
The tree is tall, and its bark whitifli. 
The leaves are large, broad, finuated, and 
hung on long footftalks : they are of a deep 
gre^n on the upper fide, and white underneath. 
The flov^ers are browniih. 
We have it by waters. 
C. Bauhine calls it Populus alba majoyibus foliis. 
We have two other fpecies. 
1. The black poplar, Populus nigra. The 
leaves divided like ivy, and of a blackifh 
green. 
2. The Afpen-tree, or trembling Poplar, Popu- 
lus treniula. The leaves roundiih, on very 
long, flender footftalks. 
GENUS xvr. 
WILLOW. 
S A L 1 X. 
THE male flowers are placed in catkins, and confifl: of a hollow neflarium and two filaments. 
The female flowers are hung in catkins, like the male, and confifl only of a rudiment of a 
fruit. The feed-velTcl is oval and pointed. The feeds are downy. 
Common 
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