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BRYONIA ALBA. 
WHITE BRYONY; 
STN'ONTMA. Bryonia. Pharm. Edinb.. Bryonia afo era five 
alba, baccis rubris. Baub. Pin. p. 297. Bryonia alba 
vulgaris.. 
ParLTbeaLp. 178. Bryonia alba. Gerard. Emac. p. 869. Rail 
Hift.p. 659. Synop.p. 261. Hall Rift. Stirp. lielv. 574. Hudfon. 
Flor. Ang. p. 437. Relban. Flor. Cantab. p. 375. Ligbtfoot. Flor,. 
Scot. 
Bryonia dioica. 
Withering. Bot. Arr. p. 11.33 
Ic\ Flor, 
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Dan. t. 813. J acq. Flor. A 11ft. t. 199. Miller. /. 70. 
£7#/} Dioecia. O/t/. Syngenefia. Zi//. £<?/*. PiW. 1093. 
.E^ G^/z. Cb. Ma s c. Gal 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-partita. Filamenta 3. 
Fmm, Cal 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-partita. Stylus 3-fidus. 
Bacca fubglobofa, polyfperma.. 
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Sp. Cb. B. foliis palmatis utrinque eallofo-feabris. 
THE root is perennial, large, often a foot in circumference, 
tapering, branched, and of a whitifh yellow colour : the items are 
feveral yards in length, angular, flender, fcandent, twifting themfelves 
about the bufhes for fupport : the leaves are large, hairy, lobed, or 
palmated, 
pointed ; they ftand alternately upon ftrong hairy 
footftalks : the flowers are of a yellowifh green- colour, produced in 
elufters at the footftalks of the leaves, and are male and female on 
different plants : the calyx of the male flowers is bell-fhaped, and 
deeply divided into five narrow pointed fegments : the corolla is alfo 
divided into .five fegments, which aie ovate, and fpreading: the fila- 
ments are three, fhort, thick, and furnifhed with irregular antherae, 
of which two are faid to be on each two of the filaments, and one 
^on the third: the calyx and corolla of the female flower referable 
thofe of the male, but are fmalier: the germen is round, and placed 
below the flower: the ftyle is ftrong, ered, of the length of the 
corolla, and divided at the top into three parts, which are bent down- 
wards, and each furnifhed with a lame triangular ftigma : the fruit is 
<* O O C-' . 
a fmooth red berry containing five or fix feeds. It is common in 
woods and hedges, and flowers in May and June.. 
Linnaeus 
