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XXI. Brycnia alba triphylla, genitulata, foliiscraffis, acidis. Cat.p.to6. Tah. 
ee, 4015, C7 S. | 
The Root is two or three Footlong, reddifh, and fends forth other Roots, 
{maller, pretty long and jointed, creeping under the Surface of the Earth. 
The Stalk is jointed, reddith brown, as big as onesFinger, every joint making 
a very Obtufe Angle with that next it, it flicks to Palifadoes or Trees by 
Clavicles, and on its upper parts towards the top, is befet with a grear 
many Leaves, three always together on a pretty long Foot Stalk. The 
Leaves are thick, juicy, {ower, and cut in pretty deep on the edges like a 
Saw. The Stalks towards the tops are always red. The Flowers ftand ro- 
wards the tops of the Branches in bunches or Corymbi, like Ivy, and are of 
an herbaceous colour. After thefe follow feveral, little, round Beriies, no 
bigger than a {mall Pea, of a black colour, ftanding on an half Inch long 
green Foot-Stalks. The Pulp is of a blackith green colour, and contains 
one {mall round Stone, having a white Kernel within it. 
it climbs the Trees in the Woods in feveral places, and grows near the 
River fides, and about the Palifadoes, near the Town of St. Fago de la 
Vega. 
ic Flowers in Afay. 3 
The Juice of this is ufed in Sauces.as that of Sorrel. 
Whofoever pleafes to compare the Figures of Bryonvides trifoliatum Indi 
cum, Cre. Plukenet. Phyt. Tab.155+ Fig. 2. and his Chamedrifolia [candens, 
orc. Phyt. Tab. 81. Fig. 5. and has feen this Plant, will be ready to think 
the laft only a Figure taken from a dry’d Plant, from which the Leaves are 
drop'd off, and the firft from the fame Plant, growing in a Garden, not- 
withftanding what.that Author fays, p. 33. of his Manti{fa. 
XXII. Bryonia alba genicalata, viola foliis, baccis ¢ viridi purpurafcentitus, 
Cat. p. 106. Lab. 144. Fig. 1. 4a Bryonia alba levis’ Americana, cortice 
albo nitente Dy Pdukenet. Phyt, Tab. 272. Figs}. Almag. p.71 > Vel an Bryoa 
nia Americana fractu aureo, ceraft parvi magnitudine tetrapyrene venenato, Bar- 
badenfibus noftratibus Poifon Wythe, vocata. Ejnfd. Alm. p.71. Tab. 151. 
Fig. 4? | 
This has jointed ot geniculated:Stalks as big--as.ones little Finger, and ~ 
rifes, catching hold of any thing it comes near by its Clavicles to feven, eight, 
or even thirty Foot high, being round, greenifh, every joint an Inch long, 
making a very Obtufe Angle with that next it, and putting forth Leaves, 
Clavicles and Flowers. The Leaves ftandon an half Inch long Foot-Stalks, 
are four Inches long, three broad at the round Bale where broadeft, being of 
a dark gren colour, and fomewhat refembling the Leaves of Violets. The 
Flowers are many, {mall, of a pale yellow colour, ftanding many together 
as the others of this Kind. After thefe follow ‘Berries of a purplith green 
colour, like thofe of the other Bryonies or Ivy. 
it grows near the Town about old Palifadoes and Trees, as likewife 
near the Bridge over Black River, on the Trees growing there, very co- 
pioufly. 
XXIL. Bryonia alba triphylla maxima. Cat. p.106. Tab.144. Fig. 2. 
This has a «many-cornered Stem about the bignefS of a Goofe-Quill. It 
has, at every Inches or more interval, Leaves, three always together at a 
crooked joint, and a Clavicle oppofite to that, three Inches long, and catch- 
inghold of any Tree:they come near. The Leaves ftand on an Incly and an 
half long Foot-Stalks; that oppofite to the Foot-Stalk, or in the middle, 
being an Inch and an half long, and an Inch broad near the further end 
Ooo where 
