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BRITISH HERBAL. 
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DiAgelsS1.0 Nis i 
Cretick Bryony. 
Bryonia foliis palmatis. 
The root is long and flender. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, trailing, and, 
when fupported,. of a great length. 
The leaves are large, and divided in an ele- 
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_FOREIGN 
SPECIES, 
gant manner: they are rough, of a pale greeny 
and veined and {potted with white, © 
The flowers are large, and they are placed on 
long footftalks. The berries are red. 
It is’a native of Crete, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Bryania Cretica maculata. 
1 ieee heaconicas Bb 
BLACK BRYONY. 
TAMNUS. 
r [ ‘Here is in this genus a flower, if it may be fo called, without petals. 
The cup is formed of a 
fingle piece, divided at the edge into fix fegments, of an oval form, but pointed, and difplayed 
jn an expanded manner at the points. 
three cells ; in each of which there are two feeds. . 
There are in this genus male and female plants. 
The fruit isa berry, of an oval form, divided within into 
The flowers differ in this, that in the male there _ 
are within the cup in fhort filaments or threads, with their buttons ; and in the female there is the 
embryo-fruit, plainly diftinguifhable under the flower, 
Linnzeus places this among the diacia bexandria; the male and female flowers being on feparate 
plants, and the threads in the male fix in number. 
and writes it samus. 
DIVISION L 
1.. Common Black Bryony. 
- Lamuus vulgaris. . 
“The root is very large, long, and thick, black 
on the outfide, white fe ries and full of a white 
juice. ; 
The ftalks are numerous, long, flender, and 
green: they. climb among. bufhes, and by that 
means grow to ten feet or more in length. 
The ‘leaves are large and beautiful : they are 
placed on long footftalks, and are of a heart-fa- 
fhioned Shape; fharp- pointed, and of a fhining 
deep green. 
The flowers-are greenifh, and are placed feve- 
ral together on long footftalks, each having alfo 
its feparate pedicle. 
The berries are large, Atk when ripe, of a 
beautiful red. 
It is common in hedges, and the berries are 
ripe in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Bryonia Levis five nigra ra- 
BRITISH 
cemofa, Others, Bryonia nigra, and Tamnus vul- 
garis. : * 
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Black Bryony with trifid leaves. 
Tamnus folio trifido. 
The root is long, thick, and full of a fharp 
juice. 
The ftalks are numerous and weak ; but they 
fupport themfelves by climbing. 
The leaves are large, and a a frefh green: 
He is difpleafed with the received name tamnus, 
S Pelee ibe bigs: 
The root is a very powerful remedy in nephri- > 
tick cafes, though not known in the fhops, or 
ufed in the modern practice. The beft method 
of giving it isin the juice preffed out, when ic 
has been bruifed, with white wine. 
This works powerfully by urine, brings away 
gravel, and cleanfes the paffages in a furprifing 
manner. 
It is alfo excellent againt obftructions of the 
menfes, taken in the fame way, but in f{maller 
dofes, for a continuance of time. 
A fyrup made of it with honey is fervice- 
able in afthmas, and all obftructions of the 
breaft. 
The young fhoots, eaten in the manner of afpa- 
ragus, are very pleafant, and work powerfully by: 
urine. 
The bruifed root, applied externally, has done 
fervice in paralytick cafes. This I write from ex- 
perience ; nor was it unknown of the plant to the 
earlier writers; though it has unhappily of later 
time been difufed. 
REIGN: S PE Gilebss; 
they are broad, fhort, and divided into three 
parts. Their colour is a deep, dead green. 
The flowers are fmall and greenifh. 
The berries are large and Teds 
It is a native of He Greek iflands, mtd flowers 
in July. 
Tournefort calls it Tamuus Cretica trifidofolio. 
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