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L/ I B. J. 



Of die Hiftorie of Plants. 



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Chap. jj. Of Worts or Sortie berries. 



^f The Kindes. 



VAccinia^ or Worts, of which we treat in this place, differ from Violets , neither are they eftee- 

 med for their floures but berries : of thefe Worrs there be diuers forts found out by the later 



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Blacke Worts or Wortle berries. 



a Vaccinia rubra. 



Red Worts or Wortle berries 



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*| The Description. 



1 \T Actinia nigra, the blacke Wortle or Hurtle, is a bafe and love (hrub or wooddy plant 

 V bringing forth many branches ofa cubit .high,fet full of fraall leaues of a darke greene 

 colour, not much vnlike the leaues of Box or the Myrtle tree :amongft which come 

 jWh little hollow floures turning into fmall berries, greene at the firft, afterward red,and at the 

 taftof a blacke colour, and full ofa pleafant and fweet juyce : in which doe lie diuers little thinne 

 *niti(h feeds : thefe berries do colour the mouth and lips of thofe that eat them, with a blacke co- 

 Jour : the root is wooddy,flender,and now and then creeping. 



* Vaccinia rubra fix red Wortie,is like the former in the manner of growing,but that the leaues 

 are greater and harder, almoft like the leaues of the Box tree, abidinggreene oil the Winter long : 

 among which come forth fmall carnation floures, long and round, growing in clufters at the top of 

 we branches : after which fuccecd fmall berries,in fh$w and bignefle like the former,but that they 

 a |f ofan excellent red colour and full of juyce, of fo orient and beautifull a purple to limrae with- 

 * '>* at Indian Lace a is not to be compared thereunto, efpecially when this )uyce is prepared and 

 "teffed with Allom according to art,as my fclfe haue proued by experience : the tafte is rough and 

 aitringent : the root is ofa wooddy fubftance. 



? Vaccinia alba ,or the white Wortle,is like vnto the former, both in ftalkes and leaues, but the 

 Dernesare ofa white colour,whereinconfifteth the difference. 



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