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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



$ 6 Clematis crnciat a Alpna. 



Virgins Bower of the Alps, 





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q The Place. 



Thefe plants do not grow wilde in England 

 »t I can as yet lcarne in otwith (landing Thin! 

 them all in my garden, where they flouridiex 



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f The Time. 



end pf September. 



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^ The Names. 



There is not much more found ofthcir names 

 than is exprefled in their leuerall titles not 

 withftanding there hath beene fomewharfajd 

 as I tbmke^by hearefay 5 but nothing of certain' 

 tie : wherefore let that which is fet downe fof 

 tkc. We may in Englifh call the firrt, Biting 

 Clematis.or whiteClematis, Biting Peruinkle 

 or purging Peruinkle, Ladies Bower, and Vir- 



gins Bower. 



^l The Temperature. 



The leafe hereof is biting, and doth mighti, 

 ly fe!ifter s being, as Galen faith, of a cauflickcor 

 burning quality : it is hot in the beginning of 

 the fourth degree. 



tfcorides 



q\ The Vertues. 



plied doheale the fcurfe and lepry,and that tic 

 feed beaten, and the pouderdrunke with faire 

 water or with mcad,purgeth flegmeand choler 

 by the ftoole. 



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OfW^oodMnde, or Hony *fuc kle : 



% TbeKmdes. 



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THere be diuers forts of Wood-bindes, fome of them flirubs with winding ftalkes, that wp 

 themfelues vntofuch things as are neere about them. Likewife there be other forts or kindes 

 found out by the later Herbarifts, that clime not at all, but ftand vpright^ the which fhall be let 

 forth among the flirubby plants. And firft of the common Wood- binde. 



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^ The Defcripion. 



WOod-binde or Hony-fuckleclimeth vp aloft, hauing long ftender irooddy ftaftj 

 parted into diuers branches : about which ftand by certainediftances iro 

 leaues, fet together by couples one right againft another ; of a light S^ * t 

 lour aboue.vnderneath of a whitifh greene. The floures fhew themfcluas in rbe tops of tne 

 ches,many i n number, long, white, fweet of fmell, hollow within 5 in one part (landing mor ^ 

 with certaine threddes growing out of the middle. The fruir is like little bunches of grape , 



firings. 



ripe, wherein is contained 



The root is wooddy, and not 



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VVood 



binde or Honifuckle, fauing that neere vnto the place wbe're the floures come forth, the 



hicb leaues do « 



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ugh the leaues,like vnto the herbe Thorow-wax,caIled Perfoliata.whicti ieauc> ^^ 

 faucers:out of which broad round leaues proceed faire, beautifull, and w * /ift!e 

 . ffling with a whitifh purple colour, and fomewhat dartvt with yel low, by Jjw ^ . 

 ftretched out like the nofe ofanElephant,garni(lied within with fmall yellow chu>«« ^ filIcC j w irh 

 and when the floures are in their flnnnTKino i4i» i«^.,«e *r,A floures do refemble laucer ^ 







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