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  • There is a species of bryer which is common in this neighbourhood of a green colour which grows most abundant in the rich dry lands near the watercourses, but is also found in small quantities in the piny lands at a distance from the watercourses in the former situation the stem is frequently the size of a man's finger and rises perpendicularly to the hight of 4 or 5 feet when it decends in an arch and becomes procumbent or rests on some neighbouring plants or shrubs; it is simple unbranched and celindric; in the latter situation it is much smaller and usually procumbent. the stem is armed with sharp and hooked bryers. the leaf is peteolate ternate and resembles in shape and appearance that of the perple raspberry common to the

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • There is a species of bryer which is common in this neighbourhood of a green colour which grows most abundant in the rich dry lands near the watercourses, but is also found in small quantities in the piny lands at a distance from the watercourses in the former situation the stem is frequently the size of a man's finger and rises perpendicularly to the hight of 4 or 5 feet when it decends in an arch and becomes procumbent or rests on some neighbouring plants or shrubs; it is simple unbranched and celindric; in the latter situation it is much smaller and usually procumbent. the stem is armed with sharp and hooked bryers. the leaf is peteolate ternate and resembles in shape and appearance that of the perple raspberry common to the Atlantic states. the fruit is a berry resembling the black berry in every rispect and is eaten when ripe and much esteemed by the natives but is not dryed for winter consumption. in the country about the entrance of the quicksand river I first discovered this bryer. it groows so abundantly in the fertile valley of

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • PS This is for stand use only and should be drained properly A. S.A.P.You need to remember it's made of rubber and if you hit the ground and head off over the hill with a full bottle a bryer patch could give you a real problem ...

    To Pee or Not To Pee Off Your Treestand? 2009

  • PS This is for stand use only and should be drained properly A. S.A.P.You need to remember it's made of rubber and if you hit the ground and head off over the hill with a full bottle a bryer patch could give you a real problem ...

    To Pee or Not To Pee Off Your Treestand? 2009

  • There were other garden herbs and garden flowers: spearmint, pennyroyal, ground-ivy, coriander, dill, tansy; "feverfew prospereth exceedingly; white sattin groweth pretty well, and so doth lavender-cotton; gillyflowers will continue two years; horse-leek prospereth notably; hollyhocks; comferie with white flowers; clary lasts but one summer; sweet-bryer or eglantine; celandine but slowly; blood-wort but sorrily, but patience and English roses very pleasantly."

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • - I observe that the green bryer which I have previously mentioned as being common on this river below tide water retains it's leaves all winter. - the red willow and seven bark begin to put fourth their leaves. - after dinner we passed the river to a large

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Columbia and the Islands in that part of the river that the country near the river is almost impenitrable in many places. the briary bush with a wide leaf is also one of it's ascociates. the green bryer retains it's foliage and verdure untill late in December.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • III. i.110 (52,8) [Through bog, through bush, through brake, through bryer] Here are two syllables wanting.

    Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

  • Ground nuts, Tiswaw we call China roots; they grow in clusters, and bring forth a bryer stalke, but the leafe is far vnlike, which will climbe vp to the top of the highest tree: the vse knowne is to cut it in small peeces, then stampe & straine it with water, and boyled makes a gelly good to eate.

    The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England 1624

  • Feildses who had been seperated from us since morning; they had passed on the North side of the large Island which was much nearer. the bottom lands are covered with cottonwood, the growth with a broad leaf which resembles ash except the leaf. the underbrush red willow, broad leafed willow, sevenbark, goosburry, green bryer & the larged leafed thorn; the latter is now in bloom; the natives inform us that it bears a freut about an inch in diameter which is good to eat.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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