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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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p'accj, as 

 guft. 



the young tender ftalkcs of Afparagus and fuch like herbes. The berries are ripe in Au- 



<[ctss,ftve Brufc 



Koee-holme, or Butchers broome 



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Names 



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*^ It is called in Greeke, ¥***«• as though 



Id fay ^Acuta CMyrtus, or prick i ng 



id MyrtusfyluefiriSjOTwild Myrtle, 

 Rufcumjn Rufc$a:'m (hops^Brufcusy 



ifieth < Marcellua 



Writer 



4ghefln>o}ti : in low Dutch, feteften&e 



pftlm : m Iulian,il*/f*,and Pontogopi; in Spa- 

 nifti Gtlberbaira in Englifh, Knee-holme, 

 Knee-huIuer,Butchers broome, andPetigree. 



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aroraaticall 



SerapiifAf. 288. fuppofcth that Myrttu A- 



gridpt wilde Myrtle 3 is the fame that Cu6eU 

 are:he alleageth a rcafon,becaufe Galen hath 

 not defcribed Myrtus A*ria,ox Knee-holme- 

 neither DiofceridesCubeba. Which as it is a 

 reafon of no account, fo is it alfo without 

 truthrfbr Galen doth no where make mention 

 ofCubeba&nd be it that he had,it fliould not 

 therefore follow that Knee-holme is Cubcb*. 



Galea fpeaketh of Carpefi , 



his 1 3 7 chapter makes to be C«£t&r;and that 

 Carpeftum doth much differ fromKneehoIme, 

 thofe things doeuidently declare which (74- 

 levi hath left written hereof in his firft booke 

 of Counterpoyfons. Carpefmm (faith he) is 

 an herbc like in kind to that which is called 

 Phu.ox Serwall^but of greater forccand more 



t*r, CM* „„:».. .fn *L-i^ At/-i /- . . 



7 " ^ ^ ^? & IUWLIU VU1 7 F"-»"'M»y «i oiua«*ticy ur rampmiia. AHone iaith 



lurcher, that foraeof the ftickes of Carpefiumare like ro thofe of Cinnamon: there be two kindes 

 thereof, one which is named Laerttum ; and another chat is called Ponticum. They both take their 

 names of the mountaines on which they grow:but Ponttcvm is the better, which is put into medi- 



cines in which the herbe Phu ought to bee put. For Carp 



- w «. n uiwu nj t utiuc ™* uuguL i^» ucc put. 1 lii ^arpcjwm^ ab i naueiaia, is nice vntof >b^or 

 ietwall,yet is it ftronger,andyeeldetha certain arocnaticall qualitie both in tafteand fmell.Thus 



urGi/oi.Bv which irnlainMv annMre»rh-rhar Knet* hn!m*» U nnr r 4***6 u*» »h^»»Ar M *-.: 



Carpefh 



msf*Jtf*,as fhallbc further declared in the chapter ofCubeb*. 



Herein frrjf m was likewife decerned, who ful pe Aed it to be fuch a like thing ^ faying,There be 

 certaine fruits or graines called C*£rA-, not fticks : yet do they neither agree with Knee-holme nei- 

 wcr yet were they knowne vnto Galen. * 



ifac in the fecond booke of his pra&ife doth number it among the graines : and likewife Halt- 



nd boole of his praftife alfo^um. 1 62. The later Grecians, among whom is 2V/V*. 



Myrepft 



roots 



•f The Temperature, 



a *innefleofefTence. 



% The Venues. 



th ft ?^ ion °f the roots of Knee-holme made in wine and drunken,prouoketh vrine,breaketh 



yone,driueth forth grauell and fand,and eafeth thofe that make their water with grea't paine, 

 1 Jn C T d l S writeth the farae things of the leaues and berries, which moreouer (faith heeSbrins 



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 ^ucoct tne fame. 



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