AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
XVIII. 
WE have two plants bearing the name of 
“Bryony,” but each of a distinct genus, and 
belonging respectively to different Nat. Orders. 
In each case also the plant is the only represen- 
tative in our Flora of the Nat. Order to which 
it belongs. Both plants are common, and their 
growth in our hedges is very handsome; both 
also are dicecious, and the berries of the fertile 
plants in both are red; yet one of them, Zamus 
communis, is called Black Bryony, from its 
roots being externally black ; the other, Bryonza 
diowca, is called, in Babington’s Manual, Red 
Bryony. 
Tamus belongs to Nat. Ord. D1oscoREACcEA, 
named from the foreign genus, Dutoscorea, 
several species of which produce the tubers 
called “ Yams,” in warm countries used like the 
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