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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
I. The Cloud ijerry. 
Chamicimrtis. 
The root is long, fiender, and creeping : ir 
runs under the lurface, 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 fliarp fcgments, and thofe again fub-divided, 
or deeply ierrated. Their colour is a blackifli 
green on the upper furface, and whitifli 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 refcmbles 
in its external fhape. 
We have it on the northern mountains. It 
flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cbama'rititis foliis ribes An- 
glictis. Others, Cbauia^nwrus, and P'accmmm mibis. 
Our common people, Cloud-bm-isSy and Knot- 
berries, 
2. Wild Rafpberry. 
Cham,tmorus fruclu parvo. 
The root is flender and creeping. 
The ftalk is weak, round, whiti.li, and a foot 
high. 
The leaves are placed on long footftalks, three 
on each ; and they are oblong, broad, ferrated, 
and (harp-pointed. Their colour is a dufliy green 
on the upper fide, and they arc paler undern°ath. 
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 compofcd, for tiiey are 
fingly as large as in the other : there are about 
three to each fruit ; and they are red. 
Jt is common on the northern mountains of 
England, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cham^rubus fmatilis. 
Others, Rubus Alpimis humilis, Rubus faxalUis, 
and Rubus Alfinus tricocctts. 
The fruit of this is eftcemed CTOllent againft 
fcorbutick complaints. It may be eaten f efli, or 
made into a kind of confervc. The people, where 
It IS common, relate wonders of the cures it has 
performed in the worft cafes. 
SERIES 
II. 
Foreign Genera. 
Thofe of which there is no fpccies native of this country. 
GENUS I. 
PRICKLY BINDWEED. 
S M I L J X. 
THE flower h as no petals. The cup is compofed of fix leaves ; which are oblono- 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 ftruSure, 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. ' 
Linnseus places it for this reafon among the diiecia hexandria, feparating it by many intermediate 
clafles from the generality of the other berrybearers. 
I. Red-berried Smilax, with angulated flalks. 
Smilax Uvis baccis rubris caule mgulato. 
The root is long, flender, and furniftied with 
numerous fibres. 
The flalks are weak, and brown : they fup- 
port themfelvcs by means of tendrils, and by 
that means run to a vaft length ; and they are 
prickly. 
The- leaves are large and heart-fafhioncd : 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 whitifli : 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 Smikx a/per frullu riibenli. 
Others, 
