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Show The ae The BRA TSH HER BDA L a. Wild Rafpberry, x. The Cloud Berry. Z Chememorus. Cae Chamemorus fructu parvo, 2 Y ng: it The root is long, flender, and creepi numerous runs under. the furface, and has fibres. ten inches The ftalk is round, weak, and about high. d: they “The leaves are large, and deeply divide ftand alternately, and there are not more than four or five on the whole plant: theyare placed on long footftalks, and ufually hang drooping : they are broad, fhort, deeply divided into fevefub-divided, ral ‘harp feements, and thofe a or deeply ferrated. Their colour is a blackifh green on ‘the upper furface, and whitifh underneath. The flower ftands at the topof theftalk, and is large and purple. The fruit, when ripe, is red ; andit is of the bignefs of a rafpberry, which it greatly refembles in its external fhape. We have it on the northern mountains. It flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Vaccinium nubis. glicus. Others, C and Knoz- | \ The root is flender and creeping. The ftalk is weak, round, .whitifh, andafoot high. The leaves are placed on long footftalks, three on each; and they;are oblong, broad, ferrated, and fharp-pointed. Their colouris a dufky green on the upper fide, and they are paler underneath, The flowers grow two or three together on flender footftalks: at the top of the plant: they are large, andof a pale red, mixed with white, The fruit is fmall, but that is owing to the few grains of which it is compofed, forthey are fingly as large as in the other: there are about three to each fruit; and they are red. It is common on the northern mountains. of England, and flowers in Jun Ss. Uefa C. Bauhine calls it. C. Others, Rub Rubus faxatiliss and, Rubus Alpinus tricoc Thefruit of this is efteemed lent ag fcorbitick complaints. It may en frefh, or made into a kind ofconferve. le, it is common, relate wonders of thecures it has performedin the worft cafes. BRITISH Others, Smilaw afpera. ‘The berries are fometimes black, and the plant is in other places found with fewer prickles.- In thefe conditions it has been defcribed as two diftinct fpecies ; but the difference is only accidental. 2. The Sa Ot illa Plant. t ZA, The root is extremely long and flender : it fpreads to a vaft extent, and is brown on the outfide, and white within. The ftalks are numerous, weak, andflender : they fupport themfelves by tendrils, and run to the height of twelve feet. They are brown, and fet with prickles. The leaves have no prickles : they have flender footftalks; and they are of an oval figure, but fharp at the point: they’are ofa firm fubftance 5 and their colouris a deep green on the upper fide, and pale underneath. The fowers growin clufters at the tops of the ftalks ; and are {mall, and of a yellowith white. The berries are as large as a black cherry, and whenripe they are of the fame colour. It is a native of South America, and of fome parts of the north. It flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Smilax afpera Peruviana five Sarfaparilla. Others, Sarfa, Zarza, and Zarza nobi PRICKLY llow: they ft four in each. The berries are large; and, when ripe, they are of an orange red. It is a native of China and Ja It flowers in July. nofus. fini fimply, C The root poffeffes the fame qualities with /arfaparilla, They ufed to be given together againft the veneréal difeafe, and at prefent are prefcribed in dict-drinks againft fcorbutick complaints. It was fuppofed to poffefs virtues that it had not$ and thence is grown much into difufe, the commonpractice neglecting thofeit really has. There is a root brought from America called kind, but with longerleaves. Girk Mm US BERRYBEARING i -BINDWEED. olf Lady x HE flowerhas no petals. The cup is compofedof fix leaves; which are oblons, andhave S SOI rned ack ini f i ‘ . the points turned back, and unite fo as to form a kind ofr wide, open. bell The fruit is 4 roundberry, divided within into three‘cells, in each of which there are twofeeds There are male and female flowers on feparate plants in this genus; but theyare of the fame ftru@ure except that the ale fi > 4 ad 74 + @ . male floweray has4 fix- fhort threads with their buttons, and the female has an oval: rudiment ofthefruit, on whichare three ftyles, Linnzus : places it for this: reafon among the diecia ject bexandria, ; i feparating ing i by many intermediaté i ae it es from the generality of the other berrybearers. 1. Red-berried Smilax, with angulated ftalks. have flender footftalks, and they are of a bea' Smilax laevis baccis rubris caule angulatoAran ful green. Both the footftalks and the fubfta of the leaves are prickly. The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with : The flowers are fmall and whitifh: they ftand numerous fibres. in gfeat numbers on the tops of the ftalks. The ftalks are weak’, ‘and brown: they fupThe berries are fmall, but of a beautifulred. port themfelves by means of tendrils, and by It is a native of Italy, Sicily, and many other that means run to a vaft ‘length 3 and they are of the warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in prickly, Auguft. The leaves are large and heatt-fafhioned: they C. Bauhine calls it Smilax afper fruciu rubente Others; lleft at the cines for that purpofe. It operates by fweat; and the beft methed of A Thofe of ‘which there’ is no fpecies native of‘this country. es re very much boftard China, which belongs to plant ofthis FoREIGN GENERA, bY there with’ buthes,. clim that mannerruns, to ag The leaves are large, and of approaching to round I bafe, and are little dent ner at the end: The flower: feéts of mercury have fuperfeded all other medi- LH. o lRpo: taking it is in a ftror be continued for a confic Smilax afpera foliis ovatis. 7C4De 2 Its root is a very celebrated remedy in the feurvy.. It has been greatly recommendedin the cure of the venereal difeafes: but the ready ef- G HERBAL. A Es Tl, ANGELICA. tend, he cupis very fmall, andis divided PPHE floweris compofed of five pe als, of an oval form. fruit is a round berry, ftriated, and crowned at the top, 1 indentings at the edge. by five wers are difpofedinlittle umbells ; and the leaves are ale oblong, hard rous plants. 4, the threads in the flowerbeing five, and the Linnaeus places this amongthe pen flyles in its centre the fame nu mber. and broad; largeft at the bafe, fmaller to the point, ferrated at the edges, andofa pale green, The flowers ftand in little clufters on foot{talks rifing fromthe bofoms of all the leaves from The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with the top to the bottom ofthe plant: they are many fibres. fmall, and ofa yellowifh white. The ftalk is round, upright, very much The berries are greenat firft, but whenripe of branched, and five feet high: it is purple toward tom, and at the joints; elfewhere of a | a dufky red. It is a native of North America, and flowers in Augutt. The leaves are very large, and each is comVan Royen calls it Aralia ex alis florifera. pofed of numerous, fmaller, perfect parts, refem- | bling fo many diftinét leaves: thefe are oblong | Others, Panaces Carpimon, Berrybearing Angelica. Aralia racemofa & ramofa. PLGA % N° 33. 4Q |