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IB. ^ 



Of the Hifloric of Plants. 



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Winter. The whole fhrub looks as if it were fprinklcd ouer with duft. 



To thefe may be added another growing with many branches to the height of a Sloe Tree, 

 or olacke Thorne,and thefe are couercd with a blackifli barke,and armed with long prickles. The 

 leaues,as in the firtt,grovv forth of certain knots many togcther,long,narrow,flcfhy,green,andcoa- 

 tinuiflg all the yeare : their taft is aftringent 3 ibmwhat like that of Rhabarb : the flours (hew them- 

 felues at the beginning of the Springs a gTeenxfhcolour^rovvingthicketogether.and neere the 

 fetting on of the leaucs : in Summer it carries a blacke fruit alraoft like a SIoe,round,andhar(h of 

 tafte. 



«j The Place. 



The fir ft of the (c growes in luodry places of Spaine,Portugal>and Province: the other varietic 

 tnereof Cluftm faith he found but only in one place, and that was neere the city Horivela, called by 

 the AntientsOrccIlis 3 by the r tier Sc^ura^vpon the borders of the kingdom of Valcntia. Thcfc- 

 cond grows in many maritime places of Flanders and Holland^nd in fomcvallics by riuers fides. 

 The third growes in the vntilled places of the kingdom of Granadoand Murcia. % 



^[ 7 be Time. 



This Ram is euer green together with his lcaues : the fruit or berries remain on the rtirub cueri 

 in Winter. 







^f The Names. 



The Grecians call this Thornc v^u : the Latincs alfo Rhdmnus : diners name it r^ f u«t. A.n*>»i» 



that iSySpinaalbapx White Thornc • Spina Ccrvalis y oi Harts Thorne,as wee findewritten amongft 

 the baftard words. Mar ctllus namcth it Spina faint arisfinA Herbafalut or h^whxch harh,faith hec,as it 

 werea grape. It is called in Italian, Af^/v^and Rhamno : in Spmid^Scamtrones . in Englifh,Raai 

 or Harts Thorne, 



■tl The Temperature. 



TheRam,faith(7,//^ 5 doth dry and digeft in the fecond dcgrec,it cooleth in the later end of the 

 firft,and in the beginning of the fecond degree. 







^T The Venues. 



The leaucs,faith Diofiori<tes } axt laid pultiswife vponhot cholericke inflammations and S.^An- /± 

 thonies firc,butwe mull: vfe them whileft they be yetbuttcnder 3 as Galen addeth. 



X The leaucs and buds or young fhoots of the firft are eaten as fallads, with oiIc > vineger > and JJ 

 falt 3 at Salamanca and other places of Caftile>for they haue a certain acrimonie and acidity which 





are gratefull to the tafte. A deco&ion of the fruit of the third is good to foment relaxed and weak 



>r paralyticke members,and to eafc the paine of the gour 3 as the inhabitants of Granado told C/«- 

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f Our Author \n this Chapter gauc only the figma of the thir i^nd the defcripticn of the firft.wd the Hacc of the feeond, with the ntmei ind faculties in gf- 

 tratt- 



h a p. zy. Of Qhrijls Thome. 



% The Defcription, 



(h,gtowing 



to the height of a little trce,hauing very long and fliarpc prickely branches ; but the Thornes 

 that grow about the IcSues are IelTcr, and not fo prickly as the former. The leaues are fmal], 

 hroad,andalmoft round,fomewhat (harp pointcd 5 firft of a darke green coloured then fomewhat 

 r ^odifli.The fioures grow in cluftersat the tops of the ftaIks 3 ofa yellow colour : the husks wherin 

 the feeds be contained arc flat and broad.vcry like vnto fmall bucklcrs 3 as hard as wood wherin arc 

 contained three or foure thin and flat feeds like the feed of Line or Flax. 





^J The Place. 



their 



booke 



tl °n,faying,Thathe did very often eat of the fame in A Iexandria,that beautiful! city. 



palinrus was 





