138 MONOECIA— PENTANDRIA. Bryonia. 



Small Garden Elite, Petiv. H. Brit. t. 7.f.9. 



In low boggy rich ground, or on dunghills, not common. 



In various places about Cambridge. Ray. In Battersea fields. Mr. 

 Dickson. At Ripton, Huntingdonshire. Mr. Woodward. 



Annual. August. 



Root tapering. Stems several^ spreading or procumbent, branched, 

 leafy, round, furrowed, smooth. Leaves ovate, more or less 

 blunt, roughish at the edges only. Fl. green, crowded, tufted, 

 in small, axillary, leafy clusters. Seed black and shining. 



435. BRYONIA. Bryony. 



Linn. Gen. 508. Juss. 394. Fl. Br. 1018. Tourn. t. 28. Lam. 

 t. 796. Gartn. t. 88. 



Nat. Ord. CucurbitacecE. Linn. 34. Juss. 97. 



Barr. fl. Cat. of 1 leaf, bell-shaped, with .5 acute teeth. 

 Cor. connected with the calyx, bell-shaped, in 5 deep, 

 ovate, spreading segments. Filam. 3, short. Anth. 5 ; 

 2 together, combined, on 2 of the filaments; the fifth so- 

 litary on the third filament. 



Fert.ji. on the same, or a separate, plant. Cal. as in the 

 barren fl., superior, deciduous. Cor. as in the barr. fl. 

 Germ, inferior, ^tyle 3 -cleft, shorter than the corolla. 

 Stigmas cloven, spreading. Berr-y more or less globular, 

 smooth and even, of 2 or more cells. Seeds in pairs, 

 roundish, or somewhat angular, attached to the rind. 



Perennial, or annual, herbaceous climbers, with simple spi- 

 ral tendrils, and stalked, alternate, lobed, rough leaves. 

 Fl. variegated with green and white, or yellow, in axil- 

 lary loose clusters, or panicles. Berries red or black. 



1. B. dioica. Red-berried Bryony. 



Leaves palmate, rough on both sides with callous points. 

 Barren and fertile flowers on separate plants. 



B, dioica. Jacq. Austr. t. 1 99. Willd. Sp. PL v. 4. t.62\. Fl. Br. 



1019. Engl. Bot. v.7.t. 439. Hook Scot. 272. 

 B. alba. Huds. 437. Light/. 590. Raii Syn. 261 . Woodv. t. 189. 



Gcr. Em. 869./. 

 B. aspera, sive alba, baccis rubris. Bauh. Pin. 297. Mill. Ic. 47. 



f. 71. 

 Bryonia. Trag. Hist. 820./. 

 Vitis alba, sive Bryonia. Matih. Valgr. v. 2. 620./. Corner. Epit. 



987./. Fuchs. Hist. 94. f. 7c. 52./ 



In hedges and thickets very common. 



