A vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties.
1The bryony leaves had turned, some were pale buff already.
2No wonder they believe in the efficacy of a similar attenuation of bryony or pulsatilla.
3This explains the pre-eminently conchological aspect of the magical properties of the mandrake and the bryony.
4Here were marvellous stone carvings of a hundred English trees: hawthorn, oak, blackthorn, wormwood, cherry and bryony.
5Lungwort and bryony and comfrey and yarrow.
6On the bushes in the hedge hang the vines of the bryony, bearing thick masses of red berries.
7It is often observed that the tendrils of this bryony coil both ways, with and against the sun.
8Bines of bryony hold the ankles, and hazel boughs are stiff and not ready to bend to the will.
9And crimson-berried bryony garlands glow
10And white bryony would reduce fevers in humans, but for faeries it was extremely effective in staving off freezing.
11The roots of white bryony and of arum, I am informed lose much of their acrimony by boiling.]
12As it withers, the many-pointed leaf of the white bryony and the bine as it shrivels, in like manner, do their part.
13Little John was crouched in the ditch: the dead grasses, 'gicks,' withered vines of bryony, the thistles, and dark shrivelled fern concealed him.
14With red hips and haws, red bryony and woodbine berries, these together cause the sense rather than the actual existence of a tawny tint.
15Certainly the general look of several poisonous kinds tells us to beware of them, such as the wild bryony, for instance, and the nightshades.
16The first gives most fascinating facts about such a common plant, for example, as the hedge bryony and the circular motion of its tendrils.