The BRITISH HERBAL. 
feeds There are in this genus feparate male and female flowers on diftinft plants : bt|t they difter 
only in this, that the n,ale flowers have certain buttons, though without threads, and the female an 
oblouE rudiment of the fruit. , j r i r 
KuLus places this among the dia-cia fyn^eneM ; the flowers be.ng male and female on feparate 
plant , and tie buttons growing together in a body - but he ,s obhged to acknowledge, hat there 
^ e in fome fnecies, which he cannot difpute to be of th.s genus, flowers which have the male and fe- 
male -irts tocether. This fliews the generical diftinflion he has eflrablilhcd to be ur.pcrfea, and the 
daffical charaficr falfe ; but thefe things we have often obfcrved. 
Common Butchers Broom. 
Rufcus vulgaris. 
This is a tough and Ihrubby 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 imall : tticy 
are of a bluilli green colour, and of a firm fub- 
ftance : they are broadeft at the bafe, narrower 
to the point, where they end in a fiiarp prickle, 
and not at all ferrated. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a grecnifli white : 
they fl;and 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. It flowers early 
in fpring. 
C. Bauhine calls it Rufcus. Others, Rufciisfivi 
Brufcus. We, lOiec-hoIly, and Butchers broom. 
The root is a powerful and excellent diuretick : 
the befl: way of giving it is in decoftion. It thus 
is ferviceable in the gravel, and all nephritick 
complaints, and againll obftrudions of the vif- 
ccra. Cures of dropfies have been performed by 
this medicine alone i but it mufl: be taken early, 
otherwife there is little hope. 
G 
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XIV. 
DWARF HONEYSUCKLE. 
CHAM^PERICLTMENUM. 
rr^HE flower is compofed of four petals, of an oblong form. The cup Is fmall, and is divided 
J- into four fegments at the edge. The fruit is a large berry, of an uneven furface, compofed of 
feveral fmaller round ones. , . , 
Linna;us places this among the titrmdria monogyma, joinmg it with the conms, 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; 
Cham^perulymenum. 
The root is long, flcnder, and fpreading : it 
runs under the furface. and is furnilhed with 
many fibres. 
The fl;alk is round, fiender, 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 
bluifli green. 
The flower flands at the top of the ftalk ; but 
there ufually rife two little Ihoots 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 Periclymcmm tertiumfive hu- 
mile. Others, Chamirpericlymenum. It obtained 
this name, the Englifli of which is Dwarf honey- 
fuckle, from thofe who faw the fruit, and not the 
flower. 
GENUS XV. 
CLOUDBERRY. 
C H A M jE MO RU S. 
THE flower is compofed of five large, obtufe petals ; and is nngle on each plant, terminating 
the ftalk. The cup is divided into five lijgments, and remains after the flower. The fruit is 
a lar^e berry compofed of many fmaller, placed upon a convex head. 
Lhinsus places this among the icofandria polygyma; the threads being numerous, and growing to 
the cup i and the ftyles being alfo numerous, one rifing from the rudiment of every fucceeding 
gra^n 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. 
I. The 
