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Oregon territory. The young leaves are, in fact, as 
described, sharply serrate, and the older leaves likewise 
vary in this respect, some being wholly entire or nearly so, 
and others distinctly serrulate. 
We found the wood to be white, hard, and brittle, and 
of no economical value, except as indifferent fuel. Its 
diameter was usually from 1 to 2 feet. The pulp of the 
fruit is somewhat aromatic, but wholly inedible. The cells 
only about 2-seeded, the seed rather large and angular, 
chiefly filled with a fleshy albumen. 
All the species of the genus are highly ornamental, and 
particularly the Strawberry Tree (A. Unedo ) of South 
Europe, which covers whole mountains in the kingdom of 
Leon in Spain. The peasants and their children eat the 
fruit, though not very agreeable and somewhat narcotic 
when taken in large quantities. The leaves in some parts of 
Greece are employed for tanning leather, and are also used 
as an astringent remedy in medicine. In the island of Cor- 
sica an agreeable wine is said to be prepared from the ber- 
ries of the A. Unedo ; and in Spain both a sugar and a 
spirit are obtained from them. 
Plate XCV. 
A branch of the natural size. a. The berries. 
TREE WHORTLEBERRY. 
BATODENDRON arboreum. Nutt, in Philos. Transact. Philad. 
vol. 8. 
