The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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X, 
WATER ELDER. 
0 P U L U S. 
'T'HE flowers are placed in umbells on fubdivided branches. The cup is minute, and dented in 
five places at the edge. Each flower is fornned of a fingle petal, divided into five fcgnients, 
which turn backward. The fruit is a roundilh berry. 
Linnasus places this among tht fentatidria trisyni"' 
The Water Elder. 
Q-pulm vulgaris. 
It is a weak (hrub of five feet high. 
The branches are numerous, and their bark 
brown. 
The leaves are broad, and of a faint green ; 
irregularly divided into three lobes, and ferrated. 
The flowers are white ; and the berries red. 
It is common by waters. 
C. Bauhine calls it Smnbiuus aquatka fore f.in- 
flku 
GENUS XL 
WAYFARING-TREE. 
VIBURNUM. 
THE flowers are difpofed in fmall umbells, The cup is minute, and divided by five dents ac 
the edge. The flower is formed of a fingle petal, divided into five obtufe fegments ; and 
thefe turn back. The fruit is a roundifli berry, containing a fingle feed. 
. LinncEus places this among the pentandria tr'gyma. 
The Wayfaring-Tree. 
Viburnum. 
The tree is of moderate ftature, and its bark 
is brown. 
The twigs are whitifh and very tough. 
The leaves are broad, roundifli, and of a 
whitilh green on the upper fide, and white and 
meally underneath. 
The flowers are white, and the berrits, when 
ripe, are black. 
We have it in hedges, principally in our fou-^ 
thern counties. 
C. Bauhine calls it Vibmnml 
GENUS XII. 
DOGBERRY- TREE. 
C 0 R NU S. 
THE flowers are placed in fmall umbells, and have a little cup divided by four iiidentings at 
the rim. Each is compofed of four fmall, oblong, and pointed petals. The fruit is an 
oblong berry, containing a ftone with two kernels. 
Linnxus places this among the teh-andria moUQgynia, 
The Common Dogberry-Tree. 
Cornus Fa:nmja. 
This is a flirub of five feet high. 
The twigs are tough, and covered with 3 red 
bark. 
The leaves are oblong, undivided, and of a 
dufky green. 
The flowers are fmall and white; and the 
berries, when ripe, are black. 
It is common in hedges. 
C. Bauhine and others call it Cornus fcsmina] 
GENUS XIII. 
ELDER. 
S A M B U C U S. 
rpHE flowers are placed in large umbells. The cup is fmall, and divided into five parts at the 
A edge. The flower itfeif is formed of a fingle petal ; and is hollow, and divided into five 
fmall fegments, which turn backwards. The berry is roundifli, and contains three feeds. 
Linnsus places this among the pentandria trigynia. 
N° 51. 6 Q_ I. Jagged- 
