Cloud-berry, Knot-ber∣ry, or Knout-berry, in Latin Chamamorus.
It rises up with slender, brownish Stalks, not a Foot high; set with four or five large Leaves, one above another, at se∣veral winged winged Joints, each of them divided into five parts, and each of them pretty much indented, and jagg'd, rough, and, as it were, crumpled: Each of them is plac'd on a long Foot-stalk, which at the Joints have two small pie∣ces, like Ears, set thereat. Every Stalk has one Flower set at the top of it, consist∣ing of five roundish, point∣ed Leaves, of a dark pur∣ple Colour; after which follows a large Berry, like a Mulberry, of a reddish Colour when ripe, and is of a sowrish sweet Taste. The Root creeps much, and far, shooting forth small Fibres at the knotty Joints, whereby it is fastned in the Ground; and from thence divers new Stalks shoot. 'Tis said, that in Norway they have so great an Opi∣nion of the Virtues of Knot-berry, for curing the Scurvy, and such like Dis∣eases, that they remove their Scorbutick People to a neighbouring Island, where only such inhabit; and there they are forc'd to abide till they recover their Health; and having no other Provision allow'd them, they feed on these Berries, whereby they are infallibly cur'd within a few Days. But this sort of Remedy can be only us'd in Summer-time.