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2a. Cockayne 1864–6; Grattan &
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- Williams MS
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- Hatfield MS
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- IFC S 897: 217
- IFC S 903: 624
- IFC S 338: 223
- IFC S 572: 70
- IFC S 903: 624
- IFC S 898: 82, 85
- IFC S 925: 6
- Williams MS
- Williams MS
- Lafont, 66;PLNN,no. 61 (1999),
289
23.Phytologist,n.s. 4 (1860), 167 - Fargher
- Roeder
- Roeder
- Roeder
- Moore 1898
- Roeder
- McGlinchey, 83
- MacCulloch, 90
- Pratt 1850–7
- Vickery MSS
- Taylor 1929, 119
- Hatfield MS
- Beith
- Johnson 1862
- Salter
- McClafferty
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- IFC S 268: 118
edly the only one with blossoms emitting a powerful odour of rotting flesh.^267
Distinguishing between the species, however, has probably always been a feat
confined to botanists—in folk culture all hawthorns were doubtless regarded
as belonging to a single entity.
Compared with the tree’s prominence in folk beliefs its role in folk med-
icine appears to have been but slight. Both the flowers and the berries have
enjoyed a reputation as a heart tonic in Devon^268 and the Isle of Man,^269 while
in the Highlands^270 hawthorn tea has been drunk as a ‘balancer’ for either
high or low blood pressure. In the Isle of Man^271 and the Highlands,^272 too,
the plant has provided a remedy for sore throats. In Derbyshire an infusion
of the leaves served to extract thorns and splinters^273 and in East Anglia a
decoction of them substituted for those of raspberries (Rubus idaeus) to ease
labour in childbirth.^274
The sole Irish records picked up are both from Leitrim: as a toothache
cure^275 (involving steeping the bark in black tea and holding the liquid in the
mouth for a few minutes) and as an ingredient in a remedy for burns.^276
Notes
156 Crataegus