BRYONY 181 
out the Humber and Tyne provinces, in Cumberland, and Ayr in 
Scotland. It is thus rare in the north, and absent from Ireland. 
The common Bryony is a typical hedgerow species climbing over 
Hawthorn and other plants. It is associated with Brambles of different 
kinds, Greater Stitchwort, Violet Tufted Vetch, Sloe, Dog Rose, Cow 
Parsnip, Elder, Teasel, Great Hedge Bindweed, and other plants. 
A climbing plant, Bryony is remarkable for its long, coiled tendrils 
and its large mandrake-like roots. The English and Greek names 
Bryony (4ryonia dioica, Jacq.) ra aa es aa 
refer to its quick growth, a feature that one may readily observe for 
oneself in spring, although it should not be restricted to this plant. 
The stems are long, furrowed, dividing into one or more branches, 
long lobes divided to the base, heart-shaped, with 5-lobed leaves, with 
the teeth bordered with dots, rough, and pale-green. 
The plants are dicecious (with flowers on different plants), the 
male ones in corymbose cymes, the female, which have an ovary 
below, being in umbels, and the calyx is only half as long as the 
corolla. The flowers are large with green veins. When ripe the fruit 
is rounded and red. The Bryony is found 8-10 ft. long. It flowers 
in May up to September. It is perennial, reproduced by division. 
In this flower the male flowers are a palish-yellow, and half an 
