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Show 522 Tk BRITISH HERBAL Th Wehavefive other fpecies. Authorscall it U/mus folio glabro. The Wych Elm. ‘ {mooth, on the ferrated, and fharp-pointed: and fruit brown. ne flowers are whitifh, and the Wehaveit in hedges. hirfuta, J a pale crimfon, 1 > . i §- Myrtle-Heath, Evita cantabrica flove maximo More branched thanthe former. Gat-By NE Solis myrti fubtus incanis.. The leaves pointed. Ua MARSH Gir Bij thaw S YU XXVIII. ee Englifh Marth Ciftus. Ledum paluftre. The feed is flat, membranace The leaves are long, large, and beautifully pinnated. ea MoA S PIL Nea fis XXXII. IwE, Pe "THE cup is divided into five fegments, and is coloured. The flower is compofed of five oval petals. The fruit is a tough, globular capfule, with five feeds in five cells. E It is common in hedges. C. Bauhine calls it Acer campatre. Wehavetwo other fpecies. i. The great Maple, called the Sycamore, Aver majus latifolium, i 2. Hairy, red-fruited Maple, cer compefire miaus frustu villofo rubente, The fhrub is of irregular growth. ; Thebarkis rough, and of a redifh brown. "The leaves are broad, fhort, and deeply diided : their colour is a pale green. ny "The flowers are ‘of a greenith colour : the feedvéflels are.redifh. when ripe. ES Pc KXIX. . The flower. is compofed of five oval HEcup is divided. into ‘five fegments, and coloured e. membran large a with winged is ie The feed-veffel Linnzus places this among the oftandria. Acer vulgare minus. CY B27 Wehave it on boggy grounds in heaths, G: Bauhinecalls it iti idea affinis politifolic, LIME, Ane o£ OR: The Common Maple. The flowers ftand.on. fhort.foorftalks 3cand are It is a fmall fhrub, not much branched. Ge The feed-yeftel fmall, and of a beautiful pale red, crowning the tops of the branches. Theleaves are oblong and harrow. Thé flowers aré greenifh. The fruit is of a greenifh brown. It is comrhon in woods and hedges. C. Bauhinecalls it Fraxinus excelfior. i grow th. i large, but iirregular in he tree is that of ab bark ofthe trunk is whitifh; the branches grey. The flower is formed of a fingle petal; and is hollow, and divided into five fegments at the tim. is roundifh, with five ridges, the flower le piece, divided lightly into fotir parts at the edge; and 65 ctip is formed of a’fing ous, and covered with The Common Afh. Fraxinus vulgaris. MEGSet 7 GYSTUs, TH cup is fmafl, pefmanent, coloured, and divided into five fegments.. PR “4X PN US. is i comp fed “of four narrow petals. a cruft. XXXI, LEDLZM ASH, 7 E The bark 2, Common n rough leaved Heath; Erica vulgaris 2. The narrow-leaved Elm, Ulmus minor folio augufto feabro. A {mall tree when at full growth. 3. The broad-leaved Elm, called Witch Hazel, Ulmusfolio latiffimo feabro. 523 grey;Heath (and the leaves of a dark green. + Fir-leaved with numerous flowers, Erica foliis corios multifora. The flowers of soticecloak t. Thé common Elm, U/mus vulgaris folio late feabro. The leaves fhort, broad, and rough. y to ag reat bignefs. . The tree grows S| he barkis rough. d, of a fine green, i leaves aieSeb broa HERBAL, 3. Five-leaved Heath, Erica tenuifolia. r. Common Erica the vulparis. of mpaleHeath, green and BowersThe of aleaves faine We have three other fpecies. Ulmus folio glabro. VOz5019 BRITISH CommonLime. Tilia vulgaris, CE Gene The tree is ereét, and tolerably “regular” in C. Bauhinecalls it Tilia femina folio majore. ‘Wehave three other fpecies. growth, t. The fmali-leaved Lime, The bark is brown. Theleaves are broad, ferrated, fharp-pointe d, and of a fine green. Theflowers are white and fragrant. 2. The ted Lime, Tilia foliis leviter hirfutis viminibus rubris. The ridges on the fruit very high. We have it wild in the north; and it is Planted about houfes. GE NU Tilia folio minore. The leavesof a deeper green and finer fubfiance, 3. The Elm-leaved Lime, Tilia ulmi folia fruétu hewagono, The ridges very high and large. eS XXXII. BROOM. Gp kiN VS GEN iS FZ. ‘THE cup is fmall, and h as five flight dents at the edge. The floweris of the papilionaceous : kind, and is formed of five petals ; the carina having two, The feed-veflel is a cylindrick pod, with large feeds, XXX. HEATH. E Rl Ga: 2) petal ; andis di-: fed of four long leaves. The floweris formed °f a fingle i fmall; the feeds are nume Bieta i“ four parts. The feed-veffel is roundith and rous and minute. Befom Heath. Erica folio birfuto quaterno, 772-24 The fhrub “is low; fearce exceeding a foot in heighth. Thebark is of a redifh' brown, The leaves are fmall, extremely numerous, and hairy. : The\Aowers ftand inlittle tufts at the tops © the branches ; and are of a faint purple. We have it‘on boggy grounds ‘on heaths. C. Bauhinie calls it Erica ex rubro -migricans feoparia. “Our people, Dutch heath. 4 We 1. Common Broom. 2. Diers Broom. Genifta vulgaris. Genifta tinttoria vulgaris. The thruis four or five feet high. The bark on the trunk is of a pale brown, The young fhoots are numerous, angulated, green, The leaves are fm all and oblong: they ftand three together, The flowers are large and yellow. Itis common mmo on wafte grounds. C.B; auhine calls it Genijfa Anglofa. This is a low, fhrubby plant; twofeet high, and very much branched. The leaves ftand fingly, and are long, nar- row, and of a bright green. The flowers ftand in long clufters at the tops of the branches, and are large and yellow. Wehaveit in dry paftures. C, Bauhine calls it Geni/ta tinforia Germaniga. GENUS |