PI. ex. mon. 10. EUPHORBIACEiE. 26. Mercur. 261 
a. Monoicous , barren filaments 0; herbaceous , smooth. 
Mercurial is. 
1. Mercurialis annua. Annual mercury. 
Stem brachiate ; leaves bald ; flowers glomerately spiked ; 
root fibrous. 
Mercurialis annua glabra vulgaris, 1 Ran Syn. 139,2. 
Mercurialis mas et fcemina, Ger. em. 332, 1, and 2. 
Mercurialis vulgaris mas et fcemina, Park. 295. 
Mercurialis annua, Lin. S. P. 1465. 
French mercury. 
Ruins; annual; July to September. 
Herb light green, smooth, shining, upright, foetid; leaves 
ovate, serrated; capsules muricated. — Mucilaginous, used 
in clysters ; juice takes away warts. 
b. Dioicous; barren filaments 2; herbaceous , or shrubby ; 
rough. Cynocrambe. 
2. Mercurialis perennis. Perennial mercury. 
Stem quite simple ; leaves rough ; flowers with long pe- 
dicells ; root creeping. 
Mercurialis perennis repens, cynocrambe dicta, Raii Syn. 138, 1. 
Cynocramhe mas et fcemina, Ger. em. 333, 1. 
Mercurialis sylvestris cynocrambe dicta vulgaris, mas et foemina. Park . 
292. 
Mercurialis perennis, Lin. S. P. 1465. 
Mercurialis nemoralis, Salisb. Prod. 390. 
Dog's mercury. 
Woods and hedges, male and female plants generally in 
separate patches ; perennial ; April and May. 
Root much branched ; stem 18 in. high, upper part 
densely leaved; leaves petiolate, ovate; stipulce membra- 
naceous, reflex ; capsules pilose, rough. — Mildly laxative 
when boiled as greens ; but a case has occurred in which 
being eaten fried with bacon, it produced hypercatharsis 
and convulsions, and was fatal to three children, but their 
two parents escaped. 
Yl. 27. BUXUS. Pliny. Box. 
Monoicous ; perigonium 3 to 4-sepaled. — Male. Sta- 
mens 4, inserted on the rudiment of the germen ; barren 
filaments 2; anthers arrowshape. — Fem. Barren filaments 3; 
styles 3 ; stigmata 3, blunt ; regma 3-coccous ; cocci two- 
seeded. — Stem arborescent; secondary branches opposite, 
4.-sided, girt below with many bracteae; leaves opposite, per- 
ennial ; petiole decurrent, making the branches angular ; 
flowers glomerate, axillary, nearly sessile, scaly ; female 
single, central ; male many, in the circumference. 
