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ee flowers are male and female upon feparate plants. The male confifts of five fall fila- 
ments, placed in a cup, divided into five fegments. 
rudiment of the feed in a cup that burfts fideways. 
_ Linnzus places this among the diacia pentandria. 
The Cominon Hemp. 
Cannabis vulgaris. 
The root confifts of many fibres, connected to 
an oblong head. 
The ftalk is thick, tough, ftriated, and four 
feet high. 
The leaves are large, and divided in the man- 
her of fingers, and of a dufky green. 
The flowers on the male plants are whitith, 
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The female have two ftyles, placed on the 
The feed is enclofed, as it ripens, in this cup. 
thofe on the female of a pale green: thefe latt 
only ripen feed. 
It is wild in Scotland, but fmall. We culti- 
vate it here in fields for the fervice of the linnen 
manufactory. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cannabis mas et femina. 
An emulfion of bemp-feed has fingly cured 
jaundice. 
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DOGS MERCURY. 
CYNOGRAMBE. 
HE flowers are of two kinds, male and female, on the fame plant. The male confift of nu: 
merous filaments, in a cup which fplits into two parts, and thofe turn back. In the female 
the cup is of like form; but in it is only a fingle ftyle, fixed to the rudiment of a fruir, which, when 
ripe, is rough, and holds a fingle feed. 
Dogs Mercury. 
Cynocrambe vulgaris. 
The root is fibrous, white, and fpreading. 
The ftalk is green, round, juicy, and a foot 
high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs; and they are 
green, frefh, oblong, ferrated, and pointed. 
The male flowers grow at the tops of the. ftalks 
in fmall, greenifh fpikes, 
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The feeds rife ori fmall footftalks in the bofom 
of the leaves ; and are of a tefticulated form: 
It is common under hedges, and flowers in 
April. 
C.Bauhiné calls if Mercurialis montana tefticu- 
lata. Others, Cynocrambe. 
The plant is poifonous, and has deftroyed many 
perfons, 
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HE flowers are male and female, and they grow on feparate plants, The male flower confitts 
of nine filaments, placed in a fmall cup, cut into three fegments. The feriiale is Compoled 
of a like cup, in which are placed two ftyles upon a rounded germen, and two nectaria at its fides: 
The feed-veffel is tefticulated. 
Linnzeus juftly feparates this from the former. Ray inadvertently joins them as fpecies of one 
genus, 
French Mercury. 
Mercurialis annua glabra. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalk is a foot high, very much branched, 
and thick fet with leaves: thefe aré oblong, fer- 
rated, and of a beautiful green. 
The male flowers are greenifh, and grow in 
flender fpikes on fome plants. The female rife 
from the bofoms of the leaves in others ; and are 
alfo little and greenith. 
It is common about hedges, and flowers in 
May. 
C, Bauhine calls it Mercurialis mas et femina, 
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