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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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IB. I. 



J Smilax ajpera Lufuanica. 



Rough Bind-weed of Portugall. 





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others,as on e to. White an excelled • r 

 who carried very many p CO p£ i ECS 

 (or after fome Norembega ? &£ ^Pf* 

 at which time he did fee thWJ? ° hal>it ' 



bare defcription , Ids (faithheTthl * th,$ 

 afmall Ihrubby tree,or bS^fo?* 

 are thofe of our country called Ha».£n? 

 hauing leaues refembling thofe of iZT ' 

 the iioures or fruit he rcmembreth nor + r 

 is ; moft ceitaine, that ^/2r^r/& f, th ' e f " 

 of the Amencane SmiUx aJj>cra,both bv 

 fentof moft Writers, and by the relat 



root 



ycoo. 

 ion of 



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fuch as haue feene it growing there i 



2 J he common rough Bind-wcedharf, 

 many branches fet foil of littie fharpe pric 



kles wnhcertaineclafping tendrels^hcrc." 

 with it taketb hold vpon hedges, fhrubs, a nd 



whatfoeuer ftandeth next vnto it *in, ;„„ 



and clafping it felfe abour from thebottomf 

 to the top ; whereon are placed at euery joint 

 one leafe like that of Ivie, without corners 

 fharpe pointed, lefler and harder than thofe 

 ot fmooth Binde-weed , oftentimes marked 

 with little white fpots, and garded or borde- 

 red about the edges with crooked prickles. 

 The floures grow at the top of crooked folks 

 of a white colour,and fweetoffmell. After 

 commeth the fruit like thofe of the wilde 

 Vine, greene at the firft, and red when they 

 be ripe, and of a biting tafte 5 wherein iicon- 



tained a blackifh feed in fhape like that of hempe. The root is long, fbmewnat hard,and parted 



into very many branches. 



3 This rough B inde weed,found tor the moft part in the barren mountaines of PortugaIl,diffe- 

 reth not from the precedent in ftalkesand floures, but in the leaues and fruit j for the leaues are 

 foftcr,and leiTe prickly, and fometiraes haue no prickles atall,and they are alfo oftentimes much 

 narrower r the fruit or berry is not red but blacke when as it commeth to be ripe. The root hereof 

 is one (ingle root of a wooddy fubftance, with fome fibres annexed thereto, wherein confifteth the 



difference. 





f The Place. 





Zarza PariUa t or the prickly Binde weed of America, groweth in Peru a prouince of America, 

 in Virginia, and in diuers other places both in the Eaftand Weft Indies. 



The others grow in rough and vnti lied places, about the edges and borders of fields, on moun- 

 taines and vallies,in Italy,Languedoc in France, Spaine, and Germany. 



^f The Time. 



They fioure and flourish in the Spring : their fruit is ripe in Autumne,or a little before, 



^r The Names. 

 It is named in Greeke, s^*? ->&xZ*- Ga\a (Thetphraftut his tranflator) names it HederaCilicit^ 

 likewifeP//»j(,who//^.24.^.io.writeth,tbat it isalfo fyrnamed Nicofhortn. Of the Hetrurians. 

 Bedera (pwofaand Rubus Cervintu : of the Caftilians in Spaine, as Lacuna faith, Zarza pnk, a$ 

 though they fhould fay ,Rui>*< vittcula, or Bramble little Vine. Sarfa as Matthioln interpreted rt» 

 doth fignifie a Vine ; and Panlla, a Imallor little Vine. tf 



Diuers affirmc that the root (brought out of Peru a Prouince in America) which the later Her- 

 bariftsdocallZ<tr24,istherootofthisBindeweed. Garcia* Loput Lufitanm grantetb it to be W 

 thereunto, but yet he doth not affirme that it is the fame. Plants are oftentimes found to be w 

 one another, which notwithftanding are proued not to be the fame by fome little difference j tnc 

 diuers constitutions of the wearher and of the foilemaketh the difference. . ^ 



Zarza pa rtffa of Peru is a ftrange plant, and is brought -vnto vs from the Countries of we 

 world called America . and fuch things as are brought from thence, alrhough rhey alfo ,een V ti , 

 are like to thofe that grow in Europe, notwithftanding they do often differ in verrue andof _ 



on : for the diuerfitie of the foile and of the weather doth not only breed an altemion "» tae bu: 



