Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

256 ICOSANDRIA TRIGYNIA.
The Hawthorn, or White-Thorn, orQiiIck. Anglic
An fgitheach. Gaulis.
In woods and hedges. T? . VI;
The number of fcyles, and feeds in the berries are
variable. In Camtfchatca the inhabitants both eat
the berries and make a wine of them : the high-
landers alfo eat them when thoroughly ripe :
fwine, deer, and birds are fond of them, parti-
cularly the thrufli kind. The neatefl and bed
hedges are well known to be made of the young '
plants of this ihrub. A decodion of the bark
with copperas is ufed by the highlanders to dye
black.
TRIGYNIA.
SORBUS. Gen, pi. C23.
Cal. 5-fiduS. Petala 5. Bacca infera, 3-fperma.
SORBUS foliis pinnatis utrinque glabris. Sp. ft.
6i^3. {Qer. em^ i47?J
The Quicken-Tree or Mountain Afh. Anglis.
The Roan-Tree. Scotis. Craobh-chaorain. Gaulis.
In woods, &c. frequent, in the lowlands and high-
lands. T? . VI.
Tne leaves are pinnated with about eight pair of |]
PinnuU, of an oval acute form, and ferreted on ' -
the edges : the flowers grow in white umbels,
upon branched peduncles ; the berries v/hen rips
are red, giving the tree an elegant glow in the
autumn,