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A cataplafm of Black Briony root, with vinegar and cow 
dung, helps the gout. It provokes urine, and cleanfes the reins. 
Christophori ANA, Herb Chriftopher. The flowers 
are difpofed in clufters, naked, and compofed of 
five white petals, which eafily drop off ; they 
open like a rofe, and are thick fet with white 
chives, having greenilh fiimmits : The ovaries 
become black foft berries, hanging in bunches, 
like grapes, moflily oval, and full of feeds, in 
double rows, often adhering to each other : Its 
leaves ftand on long pedicles •, are divided into 
three large fegments •, and thefe again divided 
into three lefs, oblong, fharp-pointed, and the 
middle one appears to be cut in three. We have 
but one fpecies of this plant, viz, 
Chrijiophoriana^ R. 262, G. 829. vulgaris^ P*. 
379. Aconitumracemofum^an ASi^ea Plinii^ C. 183^ 
Herb Chriftopher, or Bane-berries. In the Ihrubs 
by Malhamcove,, Torkjhire. 
I Ruscus, Butchers Broom. The empalement b 
monophyllous, cut into feveral fegments : The 
flower is monopetalous, of the globous bell-fhape : 
The ftyle rifes from the bottom of the flow^, 
and becomes a foft fpherical fruit, containing one 
or two hard feeds. We have but one fpecies of 
this plant, viz, 
* Rufcus^ R. 262,- C. 470, P. 253. Rufcus five 
Brufcus^ G. 759. Knee-holly, or Butchers Broom. 
It refembles a Ihrub : The leaves are hard, end in 
prickles, and produce the flowers upon their backs. 
The root is one of the hve opening roots : It opens obflruc- 
tions of the liver and fplecn ; and helps the jaundice and drop- 
fy. It is a ftrong diuretick ; and helps the ftone and gravel. A 
conferve of the berries is commended for Hopping a gonorrhcEa. 
PoLYGONATUM, Solomoffs Seal. The flower is 
monopetalous, of the cylindrical bell-fhape ; and 
cut into fix fegments, with fix chives adhering 
to the infide : The fruit is globular, containing, 
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