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pleafing to a, hot ftomach, procuting appetite to meat, and help to cut tough 
phlegm and grofs humours ; but whién thefe are'dried, they are more binding than 
when they are frefh, beifg codling in hot difeafes, and weicome to the ftomach ¢ it 
alfo provokes urine. The gum of the cherry ttee diffolved in wine; is good fora 
cough, and hoarfenefs of the throat; it mendeth the colour in the face, ‘fharpeneth 
the eye fight, provoketh the appetite, and helpeth to break and expel the ftone, 
Black cherries bruifed with the ftones, and diftilled, the water thereof is much ued 
_ to break the itone, expel gravel, and break wind. 
la WINTER CHERRIES. 
- Duscription. THE winter cherry hath a running or creeping root im thé ground, 
Generally-of the fize of ones little finger, fhooting forth at feveral joints, in feveral 
places, whereby it quickly fpreadeth over a great compats of ground, the ftalk rif. 
eth not above a yard high, whereon are fet many broad, and long green leaves, 
fomewhat like night thade, but larger; at the joints whereof cometh forth whitih 
flowers made of five leaves each, which after turn into green berries, enclofed with 
a thin fin, which change to a reddifh when they grow ripe, the berry likewife be- 
ing reddith and as large as a cherry, wherein are contained many flat yellowith feeds, 
lying within-the pulp, which being gathered and ftrung up, are kept all the yeaty 
to be ufed upon occafion, = a 
Peace. They do not grow naturally in this land, but are cherifhed in gardens for 
their virtues. : ; MS OF SRISII] On 34 ! 
» Time. They flower not until the middle or latter end of July, and the fruit is 
ripe about the end of Auguft, or beginning of September. | | : 
_ Government and Virtugs. This is alfo a plant of Venus. They are of great 
may be ufed in inflammations, but not 
berries to be helpful for the urine and ftone, which nine 
