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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
I. Jagged-kaved Elder. 
Sambucus foUis laciniatis. 
The Ihrub grows irregularly to ten or twelve 
feet high. 
The bark is v/hitifh and rough. 
The young Ihoots are thick, green, and tender. 
The leaves are placed on divided footftalks ; 
and are themfelves alfo parted into feveral ob- 
long, jagged, and indented fegments. 
The flowers are white j and the berries, when 
ripe, are black. 
We have ic in hedges, but not common. Ic 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls It Sainhucus laciniato folio. 
We have three other fpecies wild in England. 
1. The Common Elder, Sambucus i-ulgaris. The 
berries black. 
2. The Whiie-berried Elder, Smibucus baccis 
albh. The berries of a greenifli white. 
3. The Dwarf Elder, Ebulus, five Sambucus hu- 
milis. A very powerful diuretick. 
GENUS XIV. 
SLOE. 
P R U N U S. 
'T*HE cup is divided into five oblong, hollov/ fegments. The flower is compofed of five broad 
petals. The fruit is roundifli, with a longitudinal (urrovi/^ ; and contains Onder a flelliy fub- 
itance an oblong ftone with a kernel. 
Linnseus places this among the icofandria monogynia. 
The Common Sloe. 
Vrmnis fylveftris vulgaris. 
The flirub is rarely more than four feet high. 
The branches are thorny, and have a deep 
brown bark. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a fine 
green. 
The flowers are white ; and the fruit, when 
ripe, is covered with a grey dufl;. 
Jt is common in hedges, and flowers in July, 
GENUS XV. 
CHERRY. 
C E R J S U S. 
THE cup is hollow, and divided into five fegments at the edge. The flower is compofed of five 
broad, hollowed petals. The fruit is roundilh, with a furrow ; and contains a roundifh Hone. 
I. The Clufter, or Birds Cherry. 
Ccrajus avium racemofa. 
This rifes to a fmall tree. 
The bark is pale on the trunk, and darker 
on the branches. 
The leaves are oblong and ferrated. 
The flowers Hand in long cluflers, and are 
white. 
The fruit is fmall. 
We have it in woods in the north of England. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cemfus racemofa fylvejlris. 
We have four other fpecies. 
, The Common, wild, red Cherry, Cerafus fyl- 
vejirh fru^u rubra. Much like the Fiemilh 
cherry. 
The black Cherry-tree, Cerafus fylvejlris fruSIu 
nigro. The common, fmall, black Cherry. 
Small, wild, Heart Cherry, Cerafus fyhejtris 
fruUu mimmo cordiformi. In Wales. 
, The late wild Cherry, Cerafus fylvejlris feptex- 
trionalis frul^u parvo ferolino. The fruit 
round and red. 
GENUS XVI. 
STRAWBERRY-TREE. 
A R B V T U S. 
THE cup is very fmall, and is divided by five indentings at tjie edge. The flower is formed 
of a fingle petal ; and is hollow, oval, and divided at the rim into five fegments, which 
turn back. The fruit refembles a commoii Jirawhrry ; but the feeds are within, not on the furface. 
Common Strawberry-Tree. 
Arbutus vulgaris. 
It is a fmall tree ; or oftener rifes in the flirub 
form. 
The leaves are oblong, and very beautifully 
ferrated. 
The flowers are greenifli. 
The berries, when ripe, are red. 
It is wild in our northern counties. 
The fruit ripens in November. 
C. Bauhine calls it Arbtlusfilie ferralo. 
GENUS 
