The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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GENUS XVII. 
M I S L E T O E. 
y I s c u M. 
THE flowers are ofren fcparately male and female, but not conftantly fo : they confift of 3 
fmall cup, divided into tour 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 ftrufture 
of she flower is the fame. The fruit is a roundith berry, containing a Angle, fiat feed, of a heart- 
like fhape. 
Common Mifletoc. 
Vifcum vulgare. 
The fl-irub is very much branched, and a foot 
and half high. 
The fl:alks are yellow and tough. 
The leaves ftand in pairs and they are ob- 
long, flefliy, yellowilh, and obtufe. 
The flowers are fmall and greenifh. 
The berries are white, and full of a flimy 
juice. 
It is common on apple-trees, and other kinds 
growing to their branches as mofs. 
C. Bauhine calls it Vifcum baccis albis. 
It is an excellent medicine againfl; diforders of 
the nerves. That of the oak is preferred, but 
it is very rarely found. 
G E N -U S XVIII. 
SPURGE LAUREL. 
L AU R E O L J. 
THE flowers rife naked, three from each bud, and are compofdd of a fingle petal, tubular and 
divided aE the edge into four fegments. The fruit is a roundifh berry with a nngle feed. 
Common Spurge Laurel. 
Lmireola vulgaris. 
It is a low (hrub, green all the year. 
The bark is brownifh. 
The leaves are long, and of a fine green, 
undivided and fleHiy. 
The flowers are fmall and greenifh. 
The berries are black. 
We have it on commons. 
C. Bauhine calls it Laureola fempervirens ficrs 
viridi. 
It is a violent vomit and purge. 
GENUS XIX, 
PRIVET. 
LIGUSTRUM. 
TEIE cup is fmall, and is divided at the rim into four parts. The flower is formed of a finglc 
petal, tubular at the bafe, and divided alfo into four fegments at the edge. The fruit is a 
round berry containing four feeds. 
Linnxus places this among the diandria monogyiiia. 
Common Privet. 
Ligujlrim vulgare. 
It is a flirub of five feet high. 
The ftem is flcnder, brown, and fmooth. 
The leaves arc oblong, and of a dark green. 
The flowers are fmall and white i and they 
grow in clufters. 
The berries are black. 
We have it in woods. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ligujtrum Germanicum, 
GENUS XX. 
BLACK ELDER. 
FRANGULA. 
THE flower has no cup ; it is formed of a fingle petal ; and is fmall, tubular, rough on the 
outfide, but fmooth and poliflied within ; and is ringed, and divided into five fmali fegments. 
There is a fcale at the bafe of each fegment ; and from under each of thefe rifes a filament. The 
berry is roundifli, ai'd contains two feeds. 
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