From the infusion or decoction of the root of white bryony (Bryonia dioica).
A peculiar bitter principle extracted from the root of white bryony (bryonia dioica, Jacq.
Bryony leaves, shaped like the shields of ancient Norman knights, trailed a pale buff scarf across the bushes.
Bryony berries, some red and some a metallic shining green, clustered in grape-like bunches.
Here and there wild roses, pale pink or deepest crimson, blush out; here and there are patches of honeysuckle, and here and there waves of the white flowery bryony roll foaming over the green.
The bryonyand the honeysuckle I have already mentioned.
The bryonyleaves had turned, some were pale buff already.
Sir James Frazer has called attention to the fact that in Armenia the bryony (Bryonia alba) is a surrogate of the mandrake and is credited with the same attributes.
Like the Purpura and the Pterocera, the bryony and other shells and plants.
And if the good gossips' eyes do not deceive them, all the Miss Johnsons and both the officers go wandering off into the lanes, where bryony wreaths still twine about the brambles.
The White Bryony is botanically a cucumber, being of common growth at our roadsides, and often called the White Vine; it also bears the name of Tetterberry, from curing a disease of the skin known as tetters.
The plant is called Black Bryony (Bryonia nigra) from its dark leaves and black root.
From the incised root of the White Bryony exudes a milky juice which is aperient of action, and which has been commended for epilepsy, as well as for obstructed liver and dropsy; also its tincture for chronic constipation.
Unscrupulous vendors of the fraudulent articles used to seek out a thriving young Bryony plant, and to open the earth round it.
In France, the White Bryony is deemed so potent and perilous, that its root is named the devil's turnip--navet du diable.
The name Bryony is two thousand years old, and comes from a Greek word bruein, "to shoot forth rapidly.
In later times the Bryony has come into use instead of the true mandrake, and it has continued to form a profitable spurious article with mountebank doctors.
White Bryony root is likewise used in making the Bitters.
The popular herbal drink known as Hop Bitters is said to owe many of its supposed virtues to the bryony root, substituted for the mandrake which it is alleged to contain.
White Bryony (Bryonia alba) is of special service to persons of dark hair and complexion, with firm fibre of flesh, and of a bilious cross-grained temperament.
The dogwood berries stood jauntily scarlet on the hedge-tops, the bunched scarlet and green berries of the convolvulus and bryony hung amid golden trails, the blackberries dropped ungathered.
But as it was, the Bryony safely rode out the gale, like a ship with two anchors down, and with a long range of cable ahead to serve as a spring as she surges to the storm.
I have, however, seen tendrils of the Bryony which had temporarily caught other tendrils, and often in the case of the vine.
Black bryony berries were twined about the lower branches, as were the dead leaves of honeysuckle.
Black bryony and woodbine twisted up every available stem, and a knot of blackthorn grew over all.
The white bryony is there also, and its tendrils have fastened on to the hazel, beech and dog-wood, which make up the mass of the hedge.
Black bryony is a twining plant, and can travel spirally up the hazel stems, just as a hop ascends its pole.
A factitious article is also met with in trade, made by grinding bryony root with about twice its weight of colocynth seeds and a very small quantity of gamboge.
Without the bryony this preparation is known as Aqua hysterica.
The hops seem to be the most powerful, and hold the bryony in the background.
Both have vine-like leaves; but the hops are wrinkled, those of the bryony hairy or rough to the touch.
The black bud-sheaths of the ash may furnish a comparison for his ear-tips; the brown brake in October might give one hue for his fur; the yellow or buff bryony leaf perhaps another; the clematis is not whiter than the white part.
By the bushes there is a double row of pale buff bryony leaves; these, too, help to increase the sense of a secondary colour.
It is often observed that the tendrils of this bryony coil both ways, with and against the sun.
With red hips and haws, red bryony and woodbine berries, these together cause the sense rather than the actual existence of a tawny tint.
As it withers, the many-pointed leaf of the whitebryony and the bine as it shrivels, in like manner, do their part.
A black bryony plant grew up round it, rising in a spiral.
Bines of bryony hold the ankles, and hazel boughs are stiff and not ready to bend to the will.
But at the bottom of each leaf-stalk, there are long curly green tendrils, and with these the Bryony catches hold of some stronger plant, which helps to support it.
The Red Bryony leaves are very large, and are shaped like a hand with five blunt fingers.
The first gives most fascinating facts about such a common plant, for example, as the hedge bryony and the circular motion of its tendrils.
The sunshine lingers and grows sweeter as the autumn gives tokens of its coming in the buff bryony leaf, and the acorn filling its cup.
She would come home loaded with wild thyme and gorse and black bryony and saxifrage and orchis flowers, having scoured hill and meadow and robbed the hedge-rows for them, which also gave her great tribute of wild roses.
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