Mercurialis perennis. Dogs 
Mercury. 
MERCURIALIS 
MERCURIALIS 
MERCURIALIS 
MERCURIALIS 
MERCURIALIS 
MERCURIALIS 
MERCURIALIS 
CYNOCRAMBE 
Linnai Gen. Pl. Dioecia Enneandria. 
Masc. Cak 3-partitus. Cor. o. St am. 9-s. 12. Anther te globofW, didymsE. 
Fem. Cal. 3-partitus. Cor. o. Styli 2. Caps dicocca, 2-locularis. i-fperma. 
Rail Syn. Gen. 5. Herb® flore imperfecto seu stamineo vel apetala potius. 
perennis caule fimpliciffimo foliis fcabris. Linnai Syjl. Vegetab. Sp. Pl. 1465. 
caule perenni fimplici, foliis ovato-lanceolatis hirfutis. Haller hi/l. helv . n. 1601. 
Cynocrambe. Scopoli FI. Carniol. p. 2 66 . n. 1225. 
perennis repens Cynocrambe didta, Rail Syn. p. 139. Hudfon FI. Angi. p. 371. 
montana te.fticulata et Mercurialis montana fpicata. Bauhin. pin. 123. 
fylveftris Cynocrambe di£ta vulgaris mas et femina. Parkinfon 295. 
mas et femina, Gerard emac. 
Oeder FI. Ban. 400. 
RADIX perennis, repens, alba, fibrofiffima. 
CAULIS eredlus, fimplex, pedalis, foliofus, inferne 
nudus, teres, alterne anceps. 
FOLIA oppofita, ovato-acuta, petiolata, hirfutiefcabri- 
ufcula, ferrata, ferraturis obtufiufculis, glandula 
alba ad lentem confpicua terminatis. 
STIPULAE duae, parvae, acutae, caulis utrinque ad ba- 
fm petioli. 
PEDUNCULI verfus fummitatem caulis prodeunt, op- 
pofiti, axillares, hirfuti, in maribus caulem fu- 
perant in feminis intra folia reconduntur. 
FLORES feminei pauci, mafculi plures, fefliles, glome- 
rarim et verticillatim quali caulem femiamplec- 
FEMINA. 
CALYX : Perianthium tripartitum, laciniis ovato- 
lanceolatis, fuberedlis, jig. x, 2. 
COROLLA nulla. 
NECTARI A acumina duo fubulata ad fingulum latus 
germinis lingula. 
PISTILLUM: Germen fubrotundum, compreflum: 
Styli feu potius Stigmata dua, acuta, re- 
flexa, fig. 4. 
PERICARPIUM : Capsula fubrotunda, didyma, bi- 
locularis, Jig. 5, 6. 
SEMEN folitarium, fubrotundum, purpureo-fufcum, 
fg ■ 7 • 
M A S. 
CALYX: Perianthium ut in femina. 
STAMINA: Filamenta novem plerumque, capilla- 
ria, refla, longitudine calycis : An ther* 
globofae, didymae, primo flavae, mox coerulef- 
eentes, Jig. 3. 
¥ ROOT perennial, creeping, white, and very fibrous. 
I STALK upright, Ample, a foot high, leafy, naked 
y below, round, flightly winged alternately. 
t LEAVES oppolite, oval, pointed, Handing on foot- 
| ftalks flightly hairy and rough to the touch, 
$ ferrated; the teeth bluntilh, and terminated 
by a whitilh gland, vifible only by a magnifier. 
$ STIPULAE two, fmall, pointed, on each fide the flalk 
at the bafe of the foot-ftalk. 
I FOOT-STALKS of the flowers proceed from the bo- 
's: foms of the leaves near the top of the ftalk, 
are oppolite and hairy ; in the male plant they 
are longer than the flalk ; in the female they 
are hid among the leaves. 
FLOWERS in the female few ; in the male numerous, 
felfile, growing fomewhat whirl-like in little 
clufters, and half furrounding the flalk. 
FEMALE. 
CALYX : a Perianthium divided into three fegments, 
which are oval, pointed, and fomewhat erefl, 
Jig- L 2 * 
COROLLA wanting. 
NECTARY two lmall pointed filaments, one on each 
fide the germen. 
PISTILLUM : Germen roundilh and fome\yhat flat- 
tened : Styles, or rather Stigmata, two, 
pointed and turning back, fg. 4. 
SEED-VESSEL: a roundilh double Capsule of two 
cavities, fig. 5, 6. 
SEED : one in each cavity, roundilh, of a brownilh 
purple colour, fig. 7. 
MALE. 
CALYX : a Perianthium the fame as the female. 
STAMINA: nine Filaments, for the moll part, ca- 
pillary, flrait, the length of the calyx : An- 
ther.* round, double, firft yellow, afterwards 
becoming bluilh. 
IN the third edition of Rays Symffi, Siit Hans Sloane communientes a very particular account of the 
pernicious effefls of this plant. It was, as it appears from thence gathered by the miftrefs of a family 
in the fields, (in arris are the words,) fried with bacon, and eaten for fupper by the wife, the hulband, and 
three children; the children in about two hours awaked out of their fleep violently fick ; on being removed to 
the fire they both vomited, and purged, and in about half an hour afterwards they again fell a fleep : two of them 
continued in this flate of ftupor for twenty-four hours, when they awaked, and after more copious evacuations re- 
covered. The third child awaked not till the third day, and then juft opening its eyes, was feized and carried oft 
by convulfions. The man being of a robuft conftitution was not fo violently aftedted ; but after a longer fleep 
than ufual, went about his bufinefs, feeling no other inconvenience than a burning heat in his chin, to nlluago 
which he was obliged for the whole day to apply cold water. The woman, after being more than ufually op- 
prefled with fleep, found her felf ill, and did not recover for feveral days. 
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