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tainous places of the temperate rcgions of Europe. It iscultivatedhere ingardens, but not preferved withoutdifficul-ty.

The apothecary mufl. fake care not to take for it the Vac-clnium Pills idaa, or m/ Wkorthberry of Linnxus, whichin fome refpeäs refembles it, The leaves of Uva Urli arenarrower at the bafe, thicker, entire undcrneath ; whilft thofeof the red whortle are broader at the bafe, thinner, flightlyindented at theend,the mid-rib terminatingina roundiihknob,(Steins ap. If'lth.) —with deep veiris above, which are equallyprominent \mAetae2th ) (T'Foedwardap.eund } . junderneath dotted,(dotsdark brown, prominent, (Stokss.) — Thal (viz.uvaurfijhas trailing fralks, — this ftalks obliquely afcending. — That hasan ovate corolla, ander the germen,with ten ftamina ;—this isbell-ibaped, deeper cut, higher than the gerroea, with eightftamina,— Thai a berry, färinaeeous, dry, infipid, comrnon-ly with £ve cells and feeds ; — this a berry fulJ of an aeidjuice, foiir cells, and numerous feeds. Murr. App. Med.Voll..

The leaves of the Ui r a Urfi have a tafle at ruft ftyptic, af-terwards agreeably bitter ; — the ftalks and their bark arerauch more aftrfegent than the leaves, but leis bitter, — andthe woody part almoft entirely infipid. The fmell of thedried leaves is like that of liquorice-root, or its extrachThey containmore gutnmyparts, in which the btttejrnefsre-fides, than of reiin, which is infipid, — an aqueous men-ftruum is therefore preferable to a fpirituous. Boiling extri-cates the efEcacious parts more powerfully than inniüon.Murroy ib.

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