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2 Thefe trees grow not wild in England, but I haue them growing in ray garden in very great 





f The Time. 







They floure in Aprill and May 3 but as yet they haue not borne any fruit in my garden,though in 

 Italy and Spain their fruit is ripe in September. ; 



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The later Phyfitians call the fir ft Syringa.or rather 2«e»?,that istofay ; aPipe,becaufetheftalkes 

 and branches therof when ihe pith is taken out arc hollow like a Pipe : it is alfo many times fyrna- 

 raed Candida ox whice>or Syringa Candida pre ,01 Pipe with a white floure, becaufe it fliould differ 

 from X/7/^which is fomtimes named Syringa coeruleapi blew Pipe : in Eng!ifh,whire Pipe, 



Blew Pipe the later phyfitians, as we hauefaid,do name Ltllach or Lilach : of Come,Syrw(r4c&ru- 

 Ia y ov blew Pipe : moft doexpound the word Li/Iach^nd call it Ben : Serapios and the Arabians Ben 

 is GUmVngmntma^ which the Grecians name B*A*m W „ pi ^*A .. f r0 m which Lillacb doth very much 

 differ : araongft other d ifferences it is very apparant that Lillach bringeth forth no nut, howfoeuer 

 Matthiolu* doth falfly pidureitwith one- for it hath only a littIecod,the feed whereof hath in it 

 nooileat all. The figure of the BaLnus CMyrepficawc haue thought good to infert in this Chap- 

 ter 5 for want of a more conuenient roome. 





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nor learned ought of others. 



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yfica taken in the quantity of a dram caufeth vomit^drunk with Hydromel it pur- & 



geth by the ftoo!e,and is hurtfull to the ftomacke. 



hrauch vfedby Perfumers. 



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and fo dropped in war me in a fmall quantitic. $ 



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Idow-waile is a fmall flirub about two cubits high. The ftalke is of a woody fubftance^ 

 branched with many fmall twigs full of little leaues like Privet,but fmatler and blacker: 

 on the ends whereof grow fmall pale yellow floures s whith being pad, thexefuccedeth a 

 hree cornered berry like the Tithymales,for which caufe it was called Trico€cos % that is, three ber- 

 ned zhamdea. Thefe berries are green at the firft,red afterward ,and brown when they be withered, 

 3 "d contain in them an oily fatnefle like that of the OUue,being of an hot biting taft,and burning 

 the mouth as do both the leaues and rinde.The root is hard and wooddy. 



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*t is found in moft vntilled grounds in Italy and Languedoc in France/in roagh and defart pla- 

 Ce s. I haue it growing in my garden. 



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it xs alwaies green : the feed is ripe in Autumne. 



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Ok*jte/Ixs y znd likewife Citoeaciumixt is alfo; 

 it is called in Englifh, Widow- waiIe^/d/4 



amed ofdiuers,o/ii/f//* 3 as MalthiolwSylvaucus 

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\ ne fruit is named of diuers, *&**** ***** • in Lztinc y Coccus cnidius ? but he is deceiued, faith 2>/>- 



J^'Mfc ,that nameth the fruit of Spurge OlivejCoccus cnidius. i^Avicen and Sttvi/w call Cham*!'* ot 



purge Olive, CMezereon ± vnder which name notwithftanding they haue alfo contained both the 



jrhatn^Ieons or Car Iines,andfo haue they confounded Chamdea or Spurge Olive with the Car- 



"ncs,and likewife Thjrndea or Spurge flax. * 



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