Crossword-Solution: RUSCUS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; Ð called also knee holly.

July 19, 1st circle was made in 16 30 (shoot very young) 20, 2nd 15 0 21, 3rd 8 0 22, 4th 10 30 (MONOCOTYLEDONS.) _Ruscus androgynus_ (Liliaceæ), placed in the hot-house, moves against the sun.

The rate does not seem governed by the thickness of the shoots: those of the _Sollya_ are as thin and flexible as string, but move more slowly than the thick and fleshy shoots of the _Ruscus_, which seem little fitted for movement of any kind.

Hooker that at Kew the _Ruscus androgynus_ has ascended a column 9 inches in diameter; and although a _Wistaria_ grown by me in a small pot tried in vain for weeks to get round a post between 5 and 6 inches in thickness, yet at Kew a plant ascended a trunk above 6 inches in diameter.

The oranges were then sold at the rate of ten for a penny English.] Among the small plants, the _arum arisarum_, (friar's cowl) and the _ruscus aculeatus_ (butcher's broom) were the most conspicuous, this latter is a pretty ever-green shrub, and the berries were there as large as those of a common _solanum pseudo capsicum_, (Pliny's _amomum_, or winter cherry) and of a bright scarlet colour, issuing from the middle of the under surface of the leaves; I never saw any of these berries any where else.