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feeds. There are in this genus feparate male and female’ flow 
only in this, that the male flowers have certain buttons, 
oblong rudiment of the fruit. 
Linnzus places this among the diecia fyngenefia; the flowers b 
plants, and the buttons growing together in a body : 
are in fome fpecies, which he cannot difpute to be of th 
male parts together. This fhews the generical diftinétion he has eftablithed to bei 
claffical character falfe ; but thefe things we have often obferved. 
Common Butchers Broom. 
Rufeus vulgaris. 
This is a tough and fhrubby plant, though of 
no confiderable height or bignefs. 
The root is long, thick, and fpreading. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, a foot and 
half high, and divided into many branches to- 
ward the top. 
The leaves are very numerous and fmall : they 
are of a bluifh green colour, and of a firm fub- 
ftance: they are broadeft at the bafe, narrower 
to the point, where they end in a fharp prickle, 
and not at all ferrated: 
The flowers are fmall, and of a greenifh white: 
G .. BeeN 
ers on diftin& plants: but they differ 
though without threads, and the female an 
s being male and female on feparate 
but he is obliged to acknowledge, that there 
1s genus, flowers which have the male and fe- 
mperfeét, and the 
they ftand upon the leaves, one on each, and 
ufually near the centre. 
The berry is large, and of a beautiful red. 
We have it on wafte grounds. 
in fpring. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ru/ews. Others, Rufcus five 
Brufcus. We, Knee-bolly, and Butchers broom, 
Tt flowers early 
The root is a powerful and excellent diuretick : 
the beft way of giving itis in decoétion, It thus” 
is ferviceable in the gravel, and all nephritick 
complaints, and againft obftru@tions of the vif. 
cera. Cures of dropfies have been performed by 
this medicine alone ; but it muft be taken early, 
otherwife there is little hope. 
Us xv : 
DWARF HONEYSUCKLE. 
CHAMEPERICLYMENUM. ? 
HE flower is compofed of four petals, of an oblong form. The cup is fmall, and is divided 
into four fegments at the edge. The fruit is a large berry, of an uneven furface, compofed of 
feveral {maller round ones. 
Linnzus places this among the ¢etrandria monogynia, joining it with the cornus, but improperly. 
There is but one known fpecies of this genus, and that is common to Britain, and the other nor- 
thern parts of Europe. 
Dwarf Honeyfuckle: 
Chamepericlymenum. 
The root is long, fender, and fpreading: it 
runs under the furface, and is furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is round, flender, upright, and about 
five inches high. : 
The leaves are placed in pairs: they are large, 
oblong, broad, pointed at the ends, not at all di- 
, vided at the edges, and marked with high ribs : 
they have no footftalks, and their colour is a 
bluith green. 
The flower ftands at the top of the ftalk ; but 
there ufually rife two little fhoots from the fame 
point ; each of which has two or four leaves on it 
like the others: 
The flower is large and white. 
The fruit is compofed of feveral little berries 
joined together, and is of a fine red. 
The whole plant, as it decays, often becomes 
redifh, 
We have it on hills in the northern parts of the 
kingdom. It flowers in May. 
C, Bauhine calls it Periclymenum tertium five bu- 
mile. Others, Chamepericlymenum. It obtained 
this name, the Englifh of which is Dwarf boney- 
Juckle, from thofe who faw the fruit, and not the 
flower. 
GE ON 40 ics aw, 
. CLOUD 
BERRY. 
“ CHAMZMORUS. 
"THE flower is compofed of five large, obtufe petals; and is fingle on each plant, terminating 
the ftalk. The cup is divided into five fegments, and remains after the fower. The fruit is 
a large berry, compofed of many fmaller, placed upon a convex head. 
Linneus places this among the icofandria polygynia; the threads being numerous, and growing to 
the cup; and the ftyles being alfo numerous, one rifing from the rudiment of every fucceeding 
grain of the fruit. This author joins it with the common bramble; from which it differs in the 
flower, being fingle on the top of every plant, and in other obvious circumftances. 
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