¢ _ > 47s 7 ell Biss i i SIHEDS 
ro...» know norof any 
Seeieents eee ee 
& “but fuffered to beare out their flowersand fruit. 
The Gardenof pleasant Fiowers, « 44s. 
filkendoune, Bur what reafon Cafpar Bauhinus in his Pinax Fheatri Reber... 
nicihad, to call it (for itis Clufius his Apocynum Syriacum) bythe name of 
Lapathum ~Acyptiacwn laclefcens filiqua Afelepiadés, 1. know none in the 
world : for buc that he would thew an extreame fingularity ingiuing names. 
to plants, contrary to all others (which. is very frequent with him) how 
: could hethinke, that this plant could haue any likeneffe or corref ponden- 
.*  »¢ie, with any of the kindes of Dockes, that euer he had feene, read, or heard 
of, in face, ot fhew of leaues , flowers , or fede ; but efpecially in gining 
—milke. T haae you fee (and that not without iuft and euident cafe) giuen it 
a differing Latine name from, Gerard, becaufe the A/ésepias giueth-nomilke, 
_ butche Periploce or —400cymam doth ; and therefore fitter to be referred to 
this then to that. And’ becaufeit fhould not wantan Englifh name an{wera- 
bleto fome peculiar property thereof ,, I haue from the filkendoune called 
; .. » it Virginian Silke: but ! know there is.another plant growing in Virginia, 
called Silke Grafle, which is much differing from this, 
ital 
UBIIG “4 T5ytt's WO SiiMig ne) Letoq) Sdsow eit 
on ‘in our Land hathmade any tryall of the:properties 
» ».> hereof. Captaine Toho Smith ia vhis booke of the difeoueryand d ferip. 
a N’ r 
; fs rans € LOOP 
J he 302 Be 3 & 
a oe 
as i 
| ie on: » tion of Virginia, faith, chat the Virginians vfe the rootes hereof (if his be 
‘the fame with this)being bruifed and applyed to,curethcir hurts'& difeafes. 
3a > 
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On mms on ia 
although for no other purpofe but to make hedges or arbours in Gardens, &c. 
whereunto it is fo apt, that noother canbe like vntoit, to bee cut, lead, and 
drawne into what forme one will, either of beafts, birds, or men armed,or otherwife: 
I could not forget it, although it be fowell knowne vnto all, to bean hedge buth grow- 
ing from a wooddy white roote, {preading much within the ground, and bearing ma- 
nie long, tough, and plyant {prigs and branches, whereon are fet long, narrow , and 
great tufts ot {weete{melling whiteflowers , which when they are fallen; turneinto 
{mall blacke berries, hauing a purple inyce withinthem , and {mall feede, flatonthe 
one fide, with an hole or dent therein : this is feenein thofe branches that are not cut, 
= Bi thevfe ofthis plant is fo much, and fo frequent throughoutall this Land, 
"gba gromsthas plenty inthe Wancitk ome ame Cote; 
asinany other beyondtheSeas, 
den iats "The Time, 
-_t fowreth fometimes in Iune,and in Iuly ; the fruit is ripe in Auguft and 
ig September. ° . ‘a * ; 
There is great controuerfie among the moderne Writers concerning this 
plant, Rie Fo8 it to be xdaeS- of Diofcorides, otherto be Phi&yres of Di- 
-ofcorides, which followeth next after Cyprus. Plinie maketh mention of 
Cypresintwo places inthe onehe ins Cypre hath the leafe . 
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