102 FLORA HOM@OPATHICA. 
mortuum ejiciant, vel denique ad quem affectum potissimum 
commendantur, ut ab uteri strangulatur eas vindicent.” It was 
recommended by Harmand Montgarni (Nouveau Traitement des 
Maladies dysentériques Verd.) for inflammatory diarrhea and 
dysentery. Horn and Richter, however, advise its discon- 
tinuance in these affections, because it is apt to produce such 
irritating action on the intestinal canal as almost even to excite 
inflammation. 
In Culpepper’s Complete Herbal and English Physician at 
large are the following remarks :— 
*‘ Bryonia is one of the furious martial plants, and amongst 
other virtues, when mixed with honey, doth mightily cleanse 
the chest of rotten phlegm, and wonderfully help any old and 
long cough, to those that are troubled with shortness of breath.” 
Descrirtion.—The plant proved by Hahnemann is the Bry- 
onia alba of Linneus, and not the Bryonia dioica, or white 
Bryony, so common in the hedges and thickets in many parts of 
this country. It is a perennial climbing plant, with palmate 
leaves of bright-green colour, rough to the touch, and the 
terminal lobe longer then the rest. The flowers are whitish 
or yellowish-white. The male and female flowers grow- 
ing upon the same plant, the former on long peduncles. 
Stamens distinct. The fruit globose and black. Flowers June 
and July. The chief distinguishing characters between the 
Bryonia alba of Linneus and Bryonia dioica are—Ist, the 
leaves of the alba are of a brighter green than the dioica. The 
berries are Slack in the one, and red in the other, and the male 
and female flowers of the alba grow on the same’ plant, whilst 
in the dioica they are on different stems. 
GrocraruicaL Disrrisution.—North of Europe, Germany 
(in many parts more common than the Bryonia dioica), Hanover, 
some parts of France, Lorraine, Pyrenees, Spain, and north of 
Italy. 
It is not indigenous in this country, although Plukenet de- 
scribed it as not unfrequent about Cambridge. He was evidently 
