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Of t"hc Hiftorie ofPlants. 



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f The Time. 



TbeTiracanfwcreththereftofthePriuets. 



^ The Names. 



Ahttrnus of Pliny is the fame pbi/lyrea which Theefhrafius hath vmttpn of by the name philyca : 



ifL&BeffMiusalCo, lib. 1.^.42. of his Singularities,and the peopje of Candy call it EUprint>n:t)xt 

 Portugal s,C4/?a / io French,/) aladcr y and Savginblanc : in Englifti, barren or fruitlefle Privet : not- 

 withstanding fome haue thought it to beare fruit,which at this cjay is called Fagaras • with vs,Cw- 

 cdnslfidi&s we haue faid. $ I can by no meancs approue of the English name here giuen by our 

 Author ; but iudge the name of Euer- green Privet(giuen it by M r pxrkinfin)\.o be much more fit- 



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If The Temperature and Vermes . 



Whether the plantbe vfed in medicine I cannot as yet learn : the fifhermen of Portugall vfe A 

 to feethe the barke thereof io water, with the which deco&ion they colour their nets of a reddifti 

 colour 3 being very fit for that purpofe : the wood alfo is vfed by Dyers to dye a dark black withall. 



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Of the white and blew 'Pipe Triuet. 



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White Pipe. 



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2 SyringACcerulex. 

 Blew Pipe. 



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€[ ThiDcfcriplon. 



He white Pipe groweth like an hedge tree or bufhy fhrub j from the root wherof ariic 

 many fhoots which in fliort time grow to be equal! with the old ftockc. whereby in a 

 little time it increafeth to infinit numbers, like the common Englifh Prim or Priuer, 

 ^ncreoldoubtleficitisakinde, ifweeconfidereuerycircumftance. The branches arecouord 





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iddeft 



lcr,butlefle in quantitie.Thcfc littlebra#chesaregarnifhed with fmal 

 tape and bignefle of Che Peare tree lcaues,and very like in form : araoag 



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