MONOECIA SYNGENESIA. 591 



human fhape, and exhibited to the ignorant for 

 mandrakes. The ftalk is fix feet long, angular, 

 rough, branched, weak and climbing : the 

 leaves are covered with white rough hairs, and 

 are divided into five lobes, each of which is ob- 

 fcurely triangular, and irregularly dented : at 

 the bafe of each leaf arile the flowers, and a 

 fpiral tendril. The flowers are of a yellowilh 

 white colour, ftreaked with green veins. The 

 berries when ripe are red. Miller has obferved 

 that the young plants are diascwus^ the old ones 

 monoecious. 

 The whole plant Is flirongly purgative. The root 

 is bitter, acrid, fcetid, and naufeous. One 

 drachm of it is the common dofe ; two drachms 

 have been given to dropfical perfons with good 

 fuccefs, but it is rarely prefcribed in the prefeni: 

 practice. 



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