the horn-beam; a genus of the Po-lyandra order, belonging to the Monocota class of plants. There are four species, of which only one is a native of Britain, and this is the only one that merits notice. It loves a poor stiff soil on the sides of hills, is easily transplanted, and bears lopping. Cattle eat the leaves, but pasturage will not flourish under its shade. The wood burns like a candle, is very white, tough, harder than hawthorn, and capable of supporting a great weight. It is useful in turning, and for making many implements in husbandry. It makes cogs for mill-wheels, even superior to yew. The inner bark is much used in Scandinavia to dye yellow. In Britain, the trees will grow to a large size, but are rarely suffered to do so; and of late years this tree has been considered only as a shrub, and never cultivated but for underwood in the country, and in the nurseries to form hedges after the French manner.