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VISCUM. 
HE flowers are often feparately male and female, but not conftantly fo: they confift of a 
fmall cup, divided into four oval parts; with either filaments without a rudiment of the 
fruit, or with a rudiment without filaments, or both together: in each cafe the form-and ftru€ture 
of the flower isthe fame. The fruit is a roundifh berry, containing a fingle, flat feed, of a heart- 
like fhape. 
Common Mifletoe. The berries are white, and full of a flimy 
Vifcum vulgare. : juice. : 
It is common on apple-trees, and other kinds 
The fhrub is very much branched, and a foot | growing to their branches as mofs. 
and half high. C. Bauhine calls it Vifcum baccis albis. 
The ftalks are yellow and tough. 
The leaves ftand in pairs; and they are ob- It is an excellent medicine againft diforders of 
long, flefhy, ‘yellowifh, and obtufe. the nerves. That of the oak is preferred, but 
The flowers are {mall and greenifh. it is very rarely found, 
Glebe Ne Ue Ss XVII. 
SPURGE LAUREL 
LAUREOLA. 
THE flowers rife naked, three from each bud, and are compofed of a fingle petal, tubular and 
divided at the edge into four fegments. The fruit is a roundifh berry with a fingle feed. 
Common Spurge Laurel. The flowers are fmall and greenifh, 
Laureola vulgaris. The berries are black. 
We have it on commons, 
It isa low fhrub, green all the year. C. Bauhine calls it Laureola fempervirens flore 
The bark is brownifh, \ viridi. 
The leaves are long, and of a fine green, i 
undivided and flefhy. It is a violent vomit and purge. 
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LIGUSTRUM. 
| ae cup is fmall, and is divided at the rim into four parts. The flower is formed of a fingle 
petal, tubular at the bafe, and divided:alfo into four fegments at the edge. The fruit is a 
round berry containing four feeds. 
Linnzus places this among the diandria monogynia. 
Common Privet. The flowers are fmall and white; and they 
Liguftrum vulgare. d grow in clufters. 
gah 3 The berries are black. 
It is a fhrub of five feet high. f We have it in woods. 
‘The ftem is flender, brown, and {mooth. C. Bauhine calls it Liguftrum Germanicum: 
The leaves are oblong, and of a dark green. 
Guidieain=s U8 XX, 
BLACK ELDER. 
FRANGULA. 
ETE flower has no cup : it is formed of a fingle petal ; and is fmall, tubular, rough on the 
outfide, but fmooth and polifhed within ; and is tinged, and divided into five fmall fegments. 
There is a {cale at the bafe of each fegment; and from under each of thefe rifes a lament. The 
berry is roundifh, -and contains two feeds. 
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