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(seq. 111)
107 ye receptice, & yet not to cover it — it seems to be glob hemispherical — I am in doubt whither these flowers are not female as ye filaments & anthera, rather appear like Styles & Sigmata —
Fruit. Barry —
Root —
Stalk — hard & farm, round smoth rises 5 or 6 feet high & twins supports it self by its tendrels — or will stand prety erect without sup= =port — nearly as large as little fingure — Leaves, broad at base & tupering to end which blunt with a small sharp apex — 1 1/4 inch Broad 2 inch long — stand irregular on ye branches — long pedicles — nervose — sends out leafy brances from ye Ala. The leaf Stem has a husky broad apendage near ye stalk with double long tendrels — The Flowers rise from ye Ala — on long round slender stalks — on end stands numer small pedicles rising from same center, & from a globular bunch. Grows in rich
(seq. 112)
108 rich most land — near Walls & in hedges. The smell of this plant is exceedingly sickish & disagreeable — as offensive as putried Animals & have no doubt of its being poisonous — The berries continue untill fall as no birds will eat them.
Arum well discribed by Hill & Withering —
Celendine — well described
Locus — Do. Beronia credo