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mits : The fruit is almoft fphericaly encompaf* 
led with three or four round ribs, pierced thro* 
- at the bottom, -and faften’d to a little capfula 
at the bafe of the empalement, which infolds the 
lower part of;the fruit. W e have but one fpecies 
of this plant, vix. 
^ Cufcuta majoriiK, 2^1^ C. 219. Cufcuta Jtvs 
Cajfutha^ G. 462, P. 10. Dodder. 
, Dodder is opening and cleaning ; accounfed good to purge 
melanchoily and bilious humours ; to open .obllrudiions of the 
liver and fpleen ; to be good for the jaundice^ and ferviceable 
againfl; the itch.. 
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Tithymalus, spurge. The root is fibrous, or 
tuberous •, the leaves oblong, and, , in fome fpe- 
cies, roundifh : The flower is of the globous 
bell-fhape ; divided^ at the top, into four feg- 
ments, often lhaped like a half-moon, and gird- 
ed with two leaves, inflead of an empalement ; 
From the bottom of the flower, and fides of the 
flyle, fpring up feverai chives, furnifhed with 
fummits : 7 'he flyle rifes above the flower, and 
becomes a three-corner’d fruit, conflfting of three 
■ cells, and has three pretty long tubes •, it gene- 
: rally bends over the brim of the*^ flower. The 
whole plant is full of a milky juice. The fpe- 
cies are : 
1. "Tithymalus characias Amigdaloides, R. 312, G. 
£. 500,0.290. Characias vulgaris y V.1^6, Wood 
Spurge. In woods and thickets. It has long nar- 
row leaves, covered with a foft down. 
2. Tithymalus characias Monfpelienfiumy R. 312, 
G. 403, P.186. Characias ruhens ;peregrinus^ Q, 
290. Foreign Spurge, with red flalks. The flalks 
are without leaves, and of a reddifh colour at their 
bottoms. On the paper-mill pool-dam, in Stafford- 
ffire. 
3. Tithymalus varucofus, R. 312. verrucofus Da- 
kchampiy P.,iS7. Merfmites fru^fu vsrruca fimili^ 
