590 MONOECIA SYNGENESIA, 



extract, which has fimilar virtues v;ith the bal- 

 fam of Peru. 



An infufion or tea of the buds is highly com- 

 mended as an antifcorbutic. 



The farina, or yellow powder, of the male flowers, 

 is lometimes in the Spring carried away by the 

 winds, in fuch quantities, where the trees abound, 

 as to alarm the ignorant with the notion of its 

 raining brimitone. 



The tree lives to a great age, Linnaeus affirms to 

 400 years. 



SYNGENESIA. 



BRYONIA. Gen.pLiog^, 

 MASC. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-partita. Filamsn- 



FEIVI. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor^ 5-partlta. Stylus 3- 

 fidus. Bacca fubglobofa, polyfperma. 



diba I. *, BRYONIA foliis palmatis utrinq ; callofo-fcabris. 

 Sp.'pl. 1438. (Ger. em- 869. Blackwell. t, 37. 

 Mihcr. ic. 71. hn.) 



White Bryony. Jnglis. 



This plant is fometimes feen in garden-hedges, 

 and near houfes, but is probably not indige- 

 nous. Dr.Burgefs. ^. V. 



The roots are very large, white and branched, and, 

 by the help of moulds, have been formed into 



human 



