See plate ix.
Tranfa&ioup
of the Swe-
difli Acad-, of
Sciences for
the year - I
i74i,Bookii.
P-93- 1
‘ Ronne, the wiM'SbrbusTylvdlris, the* wild* Service-tree, grows
#Hi^'wheB, dveh'dSytll'pahehed hd^s of the'mountains, riou-
rifhing with its terries, not only the field^fates or coclc-thrtlfcs,
of which we have'mahyy -arid in great perfedtion," but even the
bear, thduglf tKifStlefy gerierally,-*tb the- fuin-l of- the tree; the
Weight of his body breaking arid damaging:the tree in his; olitnb-
ing up. The ybiing twigs are gathered witH'fhe'berries on, *Und
uled. medically^ in winter, againft the helly-kch: , :
Tiridveed, me name of the tree callfed tHB^iria-iShrifti, or
Chrift-thom, is' pretty common, and being an ever-greti,i* frequently
planted'rieax hpufes., „
Oexel, or Axel Ibrbus terniirialis,; a kind of feiViefe.'1 This tree
is'one of thepaxficulaf'natives of' ISTofway, ahS' lWe KhbWir'itb
foreigners.' Mr! Chriffiari" Gartner, who vifited fevetar coUiitfies,
and had,thorough knowledge in his profeflion, fay^j page 47, of
his Hoxti Cultuxa, that he firft met -with it in cotimdloY Shultz’s
garden in Dxontheim, on which account. I have annexed a draught
of one 6£ its, branches with the" ' leaves ana flowers; ?Xinrieus.
makes the following fheiitiori of ft, ‘ Oexel,
bus inaequaliter fefratis, Hort. Cliff' 187. CrategusfcSndfca, fo-
12s oblongis, non nihil lacinatis et ferratis.’Celf. {Upf.*!^. It
grows in Oeland and 'Guland (Gothland) but eidept in Sweden
and Norway, it is hardly to' be' met with growing fpontahebufly*.'
Some places in the neighbourhood of Bergen produce, this tree4,'
but not in great numbers. The’flock and branchesfbear feme
femblance to the ferfiCe-tree, but1 bend.naote.; the/bark is (of a
greyifh brown, and veined; the leases of a firigef s length, half as
broad, and indented, the points towards the extremity being fmall,
but die indenture'within the leaf is, fp deep' as to make thehp^
pearance of other diftindt feavfes oti the! fame ftem. At: the extremity
of eveiy branch, and betwixt three leayes,-hangs a,b'uhch' of
thirty or forty berries, oblong, red, and, when ripe, diflinguifhed
with a black fpeck ; their ftones frriall; the juice red;' and when
infufed in wine Very pleafant. Valerius Cordus, in his Difpenfary,
* In fome few parts of-Germany, especially in the diftridt of Eouringen,- grows a
kind o f ’tree, which w difre c^lcf Arlfbeer-tree, arid which by its'deftriptipn, has a
great aflaiity with our Oex^i. " See Allgem, CEcoriom. Lexicon, pi'124.
2 Comcosnmpnds
thefe betries,};as :^)c,q@li|ig,,;and at the j£pn£,,time an
aftringent*. medicJh®;iT|ir. hn
rhAmdng' i the .VfigetablCfe©ffctha&.' eomfev< We muRiforther 'clafa Mofs on frees
what i)y many/us looked upon only as effoete ordur^
but is in xgaktyy and efpeeiallylswhfep‘'e^amin^d.,»,fchro’- a miqror-
fcopOj - a ■ tegularjivegejabhrfdrriifhed v^ith 4301* and leayes^
Bmeantihefevsral'.kinds,,of)mo% iwith which; this1 coju^teyw^v^rji
run, $ot$idyion!the m&*dow-grriu’4d,vwh®?^itds/^pry.,d^tBiinen-
fal;, tj but alforjonfMresd:jfee^,i,afi:©m Twhfeh, after-a •ihnwfirJt, 1y
d&t&fched, .Gho’ at otjffec'times* adhering,^^Qclpfely-. 'j-iThiSf.mof?,!
upohiaqiartow'iiifpe^tibn;; is(verydlf&runt in^plour|t-whitej tgrey,:
bfoWm/yriMwa blacky.-nand- fpeckled>*SM.<figure] helng*.oidfert.ftia.-.
tahg-led'likefivVbol, or with long ;filameritst; or “again jWtth, leaves
Regularly difpofed; tho’< of differejait--,figures^, and- it is .ibmetimesi
full,if fmall ,4dundicahfulsB-,\! a^jiSec^jtltle^lpf thesfeed'*. fljhis;
’meanfdntf defpifed vegetable, which-feems to (feundera long
tmuance" of'heat arid' drought,' immediately recovers"new life from
the-rain," aridl is nOt maefe in^vamby lie wife Creator, it being
rad; fupport andXodd’dr- of^haky tEoufanHs of itfeinfdeers, on the
barren' fummitei’dT the fedu-ntainsy illro’ aH '■ the .fevefity of the
winter ; they removef the fnow. yv;itfi fheir- .feet- to^gctiap this de-.
lisiousj fbodYI and they .can- neither;\thiave nor live|to any time,, if,
as has been ;oftenl?triedyj they ale removed, iS^td' 'anqtlferfcdtcnify
J a\ die £^eri^iiof^fuM*Kb4tf^^ debitAa^WticuIaafy^taKfe^ and
tr^-tci to the.clrinate and foil dier5of,t.and.thetriec«(ritiesf.
oK’itsi'iiihabitants..' •
i - X^e.var^^ tferroe- ferre omnes.' poflunt:,; j
.Fluminlbus^falkqs, wmriRKbus, alni
■ feBroBtiS dnlf; f *'*
&6 iittora; tnjSft^is *
Bacchus amat calks, Aquilonem -;efc^igora taxi
' ' AJpice-'et' extremis domitum cultoribus orbem,- :p
m r?Divifp arbinbus patriae. , J^TVir gm . Georg.XlB. " ff Ver7 Wo«!*'*
'iB H r f t ln f ? P { a ? ! 'n Comflisntar, A^ad. Pfetsopol. Tom. in .K w y j« , Treats or
ievetif KindV'Ci mon, arid ^aftMuratry^grves^hffifbTlo^ing .Scfcount q f'a-No^ay-’
ffiiofei “ iGenuiria mufci^eciesrift mufcus Norwegicujf,1 umbfacul'olrupernmo infigt
imifct Petroprp^uemTo.VrnefQiMSjriicgngrue Mcheni^ua-accenfuifi et Lriche-
nem capillageq fpllcv^latiprem pelvi. rvb^rima^Qcat, >.dec.e]ius>lprtel,a ' mutp, quod
hie m fynjmo fert pedigulq, qqipi^^rpfjp^ltoSyex XichehiBus elkjcutagefos. $ell!
hoc^ Icuturri i r i f o c immufco'vares g$r” calyptr*," fuii^q'riempe’ iapituto' pyri-T
foEHiipofitCim, et eft calyptra quafi expanfa. ' ■
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