AND COMPLETE: HERBAL: 4 Tete 
patrower than thofe of pepper; the flower is fweet, and the fruit groweth cluftering:. 
together. The Arabians call them quabebe, and quabebe chini : they grow plentifully . 
in Java; they are uféd to ftir up venery, and to warm and ftrengthen the ftomach,: 
being overcome with phlegm or wind, they cleanfe the breaft of thick. tough hu-- 
mours, helpeth the fpleen, and are very profitable for the cold griefs of the womb,. 
Being chewed in the moutlr with maftick,. they draw rheum: from the head, and. 
ftrengthen the brain and. memory. aaa 
LYE CO ven, WHITE, and BLACK CURRANTS, 
Names. THE Latin names for currants are ribes,.and ribes fruéiu rubro the red} 
eurrant, a/bo white, and xigro black. : 
‘Description. The red currant bufh hath a ftalk covered witha thin-brownithi 
_ bark outwards, and greenifh underneath, the leaves are of a blackith. green, cut om’ 
the edges into five parts, much like a vine leaf, but fmaller; the flowers come forth 
at the joints of the leaves, many together on a long ftalk, hanging down about a fine 
Ger’s length ; of an herby colour, after which come round berries, green at the firft,. 
but red when they are ripe: of a pleafant tart tafte, wherein is {mall feed, the root is. - 
woody and fpreading, | | 
There is another fort hereof, whofe berries are twice as large as the former, and of 
a better relifh. eee : i 
The white currant tree hath a taller and ftraighter ftem than the red, a whiter. 
bark, ‘and fimaller leaves, but hath fuch-like berries upon long ftalks, of the fame big- 
nefs as the firft, but of a fhining tranfparent whitenefs, and of a more pleafant tafte. 
than the former.. | 
- The black currant rifeth higher than the laft, and is thicker fet with branches round _ 
about, and more pliant, the younger covered witha pale, and the elder with a browner- 
bark ; the leaves are fmaller than thofe of the former, and often with fewer cuts. 
_ therein: the flowers are alike, but of a greenifh purple colour, which produce fmall: 
black berries ; the leaves and fruit have an unpleafant fmell, but yet are wholefome,, 
— though not pleafant. ein ee tae 
Place. All thefe forts of currants-grow plentifully in England, in gardens where: 
they are planted ;. they have been found growing naturally wild in Savoy and.Swit— 
zerland, as Gesner faith; and fome in Auftria, faith Cuavustus : they grow in great 
abundance in Candia, and other places in the Straights, from. whence in great-quane- 
tities they are brought dried untous. | fe 
Tim, They flower and. bear fruit in June, July, and Auguft, Page oee: oe 
Government anv Vintuzs, Currants are under the influence of the benevolent 
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