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The BRITHSH*HERBA L. ° 
1. The Cloud Berry. 
Chamaemorus. 
The root is long, flender, and creeping: it 
runs under the furface, and has numerous 
fibres. : 
The ftalk is round, weak, and about ten inches 
high. ; 
The leaves are large, and deeply divided: they 
ftand alternately, and there are not more than 
four or five on the whole plant: they are placed 
on long footftalks, and ufually hang drooping: 
they are broad, fhort, deeply divided into feve- 
ral tharp fegments, and thofe again fub-divided, 
or deeply ferrated. Their colour is a blackifh 
green on the upper furface, and whitifh under- 
neath, 
The flower ftands at the top of the ftalk, and 
is large and purple. 
The fruit, when ripe, is red; and it is of the 
bignefs of a rafpberry, which it greatly refembles 
in its external fhape. 
We have it on the northern mountains, « It 
flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Chamerubus foliis ribes An- 
glicus. Others, Chamaemorus, and Vaccinium nubis. 
Our common people, Cloud-berries, and Kuot- 
berries. 
2. Wild Rafpberry. 
Chamamorus frufiu parvo. 
The root-is flender and creeping. 
The ftalk is weak, round, whitifh, and a foot 
high. 
The leaves are placed on long footftalks, three 
on each; and they are oblong, broad, ferrated, 
and fharp-pointed. Their colour is a dufky green 
on the upper fide, and they are paler underneath, 
The flowers grow two or three together on 
flender footftalks at the top of the plant: they 
are large, and of a pale red, mixed with white. 
The fruit is fmall, but that is owing to the 
few grains of which it is compofed, for they are 
fingly as large as in the other: there are about 
three to each fruit; and they are red. 
It is common on the northern mountains of 
England, and flowers in June, 
C. Bauhine calls it Chamerubus faxatilis, 
Others, Rubus Alpinus humilis, Rubus faxatilis, 
and Rubus Alpinus tricoccus. 
The fruit of this is efteemed excellent againft 
fcorbutick complaints. It may be eaten frefh, or : 
made into a kind of conferve. The people, where 
it is common, relate wonders of the cures it has 
performed in the worft cafes. 
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HE flower has no petals. The cup is compofed of fix leaves; which are oblong, and have 
the points turned back, and unite fo as to form a kind of wide, open bell. 
The fruit is a 
round berry, divided within into three cells, in each of which there are two feeds. There are male 
and female flowers on feparate plants in this genus ; but they are of the fame ftrudture, except that the 
male flower has fix fhort threads with their buttons, and the female has an oval rudiment of the fruit, 
on which are three ftyles, 
Linnzus places it for this reafon among the diecia bexandria, {eparating it by many intermediate 
claffés from the generality of the other berrybearers. 
1. Red-berried Smilax, with angulated ftalks. 
Smilax levis baccis rubris caule angulato. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are weak, and brown: they fup- 
port themfelves by means of tendrils, and by 
that means run to a vaft length; and they are 
rickly. 
The leaves are large and heart-fafhioned : they 
have flender footftalks, and they are of a beauti- 
ful green. Both the footftalks and the fubftance 
of the leaves are prickly. 
The flowers are fmall and whitifh: they. ftand 
in great numbers on the tops of the ftalks, 
The berries are fmall, but of a beautiful red. 
It is a native of Italy, Sicily, and many other 
of the warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C, Bauhine calls it Smilax afper frudtu rubente. 
: Others, 
