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CHAP. LXXXIX. 
BRYONIE White. 
I. 1 I 1 HE Earner. It is called in Greek '’Biimms 
A >.euxj, i. e. Villa alba, not that it is a Vine, 
but becaufe it is fomething like one. Alfo e !U mU 
ntuxii, i Bfcw, i. e. emano,fcateo , from putting torch, 
becaufe it puts forth many Branches and Tendrells, 
whereby it climbs up the adjacent Bullies, Hedges, 
Trees, or other things adjoining to it. It is alfo 
called by fbme do H'-lejs, becaufe the Seeds or Grains 
of it were formerly ufed to take away flair. In 
Ambick it is called Eefire , Alfefire , Beffera, andai/- 
feffera, : In Latin, Bryonia, and' Bryonia alba, Vitis 
alba, V it alba, fic dill a, non quod fit Vitis, fed. quod ei 
fimilis, as afbrefaid : alfo ViticeUa , Roraftrum, Apia- 
Jiellum : In Englijh, Bryonie, JVhiie Bryonie, and 
Wild Vine. The Uva or Berries are many times 
called in Englijh, Tettar Berries, becaufe of their 
Effects in curing Tettars. 
II. The Kinds. There are two principal Kinds 
of Bryonie, 1. The White, of which in this Chap- 
. 2. The Black, of which in the next. The 
White is alfo tlireefold, t. Bryonie alba vulgaris, 
Vitis alba vulgaris , with all the names above men- 
tioned, Our Common White Bryonie. 2. Bryonia alba 
vulgaris fruflu nigro, Vitis alba baccis nigris. White 
Bryonie with Black Berries •, Which fome from the 
Blacknefs of its Berries call Bryonia Nigra, and Vi- 
tis Nigra, but erroneoufly, for this is not the Black 
Bryonie, but a Species of the White. 3. Bryonia 
Dtcoccos of Honorius Bellas ; Bryonia Cretica macu- 
lata, of Bauhin ; Bryonia Cretica , and Cretica Dicoc- 
cos, by Parkinfon, White Bryonie with Double Ber 
ries. 
Vitis alba 'White 'Brn 
HI. TheDefcript:on. Tie Common White Bryo- 
nie, hat a Root which grows to an exceeding large- 
nefs, weighing fometimes half an hundred weight, 
and of the bignefs of a Child of a year old , with ma- 
ny long Branches or Arms growing Jrom it, rf a pale 
whitijh color on ike outfide , and whiter within, of 
ajharp, bitter, and fulfqme tajlc. prom ibis Root 
proceeds many long , rough, but ' very lender Branches 
at the beginning, which as they grow up, climb up 
upon Hedges, l i ces, or other Bujhes adjoining to it, 
from ihefe Branches come forth many very rough 
broad Leaves, divided into five partitions for the 
mojl part, in form very much like a Vine leaf but 
ft nailer, rougher, and of a whitifh, or hoary green 
color, Jpr ending very far upon Trees or Bujhes, op 
whatever it is which Jiands next to it : from the 
Joints with the Leaves come forth [mall Tendrells 
or Clafpers, which twine about whatever fit all thing 
Is next it : at thefeveral Joints a/Jv with the Leaves 
and Clafpers ( efpecially towards the lops if the 
Branches ) come forth a long Stall , bearing thereon 
many whilijh Blowers in along Taft, at it were in 
a Cluftcr, con fifing of five Jmall Leaves apiece, laid 
open like a Star , after which come the Berries, find- 
ing more open or feparate one from another than in 
a Cl ufler of Grapes : they are green at firfl, but 
very red when they are through ripe , about the big- 
nejs of Nigbtfhade berries ; of no good or pleafant 
fmell, and of a loalhfotn tafe provoking to Vomit, ok 
caufing a naujeoufnefs in the Stomach. 
lit'ifonij cl '1-Vilrt Vine 
IV. The Common White Bryonie with Black f>er-‘ 
ries, feems to be abfolutely the fame with the f r- 
uicrffwe, that the Root of this is of a pale yell, w 
color on the in fide, and frmew'ti LrumiJh on the 
outfide ; and the Berries after their greennefs is 
pafl, change not into a red color , but into a perfett 
black, when they are through ripe ; but cu to ail 
other parts of the Plant, as in its Ion •, tender, and 
climbing Branches, Jorm of its Leave t, Tend 'els or 
differs, and Color , Shape, Magniu ■ Mode of 
its Blowers, it is exattiy the fame w . ■ the for me r 
Jo that one carne t bat known from the other. 
V. The Bryonia dicoccos, has a Loot very long 
but never growing to be bigger than a Alms Arm, 
of a browner color on the outfide , and net fio white 
within as the common. Prom this Root Jprirus forth 
if many 
