Lib. 2 



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Oxyacanthus. 



The Hawthorne tree. 



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Cumberland Hawthorne. 



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% T"he Place. 



The Hawthorn growcth in woods and in hedges neere vnto highwaics almoft cuery where The 

 iccondisa ftrangef in England. The Iaftgrowetb at Glaftenbury abbey, as it is credibly reported 

 to me. t The Aria groweth vpon Hampfted heatb,and in many places of the Weft* of England.* 



«f The Time. 



The ftrft and fecond floure in May, whereupon many do call the tree it felfe the May-bufluis 8 

 chiefe token of thecomming in of May : the leaues come forth a little fooner : the fruit is ripe in 

 tne beginning of Septcmbcr,and is a food for birds in Winter. 



, «J The Names. 



Bififiorides defcribeth this fnrub,and nameth it o^i^in the feminine gendered Galen inhis 

 oooke of the Faculties of fimple medicines, o-£«^9*, i n the mafculine gender : Oxyacamhns, faith 

 »e,is a tree,and is like to the wilde Peare tree in forme,and the vertues not vnIike.&c.Of Oxucan- 



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*™»eOO$«i: m luhan.Bagaia : in Spanifh,P/r//^ro : m Vrench,<^4ufo-ejpine : in Enelifti White- 

 J^orn Hawthorn tree; and of fome Londoners, May-bu(h. t This is not the o x^caniha of the 

 ^"cekSjbut that which is ailed Pyracant ha, as (hall be mewed hereafter. 



rhe fecond is thought to be the x^ria of TAafbrafiusjad fo LoheUad Tahern. call it. Some,as 



« "omus,Gefaer yi nd Cluftus ,refcTre it to the ft/-£»;,and that not vnfitly : in fome places of this King- 

 1 ome they call it a white Beam tree, t ^" 



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