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Of the Hiftorie of Plant 





wnouy, yet cicuer in icaieor hull, ui m ivmc uuier tmng, ruts awa&njara thar i k %.- — 



blackc Bryonies,haue Ieaues and clafping tendrels as hath the common Vine and 1 , e aB <l 



the Tame manner : ^i/A/S/^w,orthewildcVine.hathTuch likpft a IUco,ru '., .y^^^after 



gccn lorcn irauiiKC tu tuc u»«- ^*«^^ ^wrm suexanarwa^na Uvamedaphne anrl air n / 



are like in leaues to the Laurell tree : Sycomorus is like in fruit to the Fig tree and \ a r midcs > 



Mnllwrir rr^ . rh^w^dr^s hath the leafe of an (SVc.pPucpAtn** ^c t-v.^ n;5l .„. * i: a in lea ues to the 



Mulberry 



hauetake „ 



or in any other thing 



not 



others which 

 cr in any part, 



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This fit* idea groweth not on the vppermoft and fnowie parts of Mount Ida ras fnm 

 haue it) but about Ida, eucn the hill Ida, not of Candy, but of Troas in the letter Afia T T°? 



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t^ilexandrina Laurm is faid o^Theovhraji 



^ilexandri Troaspt ^lexandt 

 f.z. Fit is ^dltxandrina. nn ml 



thaa 



left 



porteth 



togrow in Msonia,arid Lydia,fcitnated not far from Troy,coraparingrhem to thofe Vines which 

 grow in India beyond Caucafus : The Vines there, faith he, be very fmall, like as be thofe that doe 



grow inMxoniaand Lydia, yetis the wine which is preffed out of them of a njaruellous pleafant 

 taite. s 



This Vine which growes neere to mount Ida is reported to be like a (hrub,w ith little twigs and 

 branches of the length of a cubit s about which are grapes growing a(lope,blacke,of the bigneffe of 



little. 



leafe of th 



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Uxaudrina vitis^ and groweth neerevntoPhalacrarit is fhorj: with branches a cubit long, with a 

 blacke grape of the bigneffe of the Latines Beane, with a foft pulpeand very littlc,with very fweet 

 clufters growing a flope^and a little round leafe without cuts. 



And with this defcription the little fhrub which the Apothecaries of Germany do call MyttiU 

 lus doth nothing at all agrec,as it is very manifeft^for it is low, fcarce a cubit high,with a few fliore 

 branches not growing to a cubit in Icngthrit doth not bring forth clufters or bunches,nor yet fruit 

 like vnto grapes, but berries like thofe of the Yew tree, not fweet, but fomewhat foure and ailrin- 

 gent; in which alfo there are many little white flat feeds: the leafe is not round, but more long 

 than round,not like to that of the Vine but of the Box tree. Moreouer,it is thought that this is not 

 found in ItaIy,Greece 3 or in the leiTer Afia, for that Matthiolus aifirmeth the fame togrow no where 



t __ •' *r* iTfc^t • r r • • r . i_ * __f 1 _ J ' .« J «~ L- vtu:* tJ**~.» jL„ 



andrina . 



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f< 



The fruit of this may be thought not without caufe to be named Vaccinia, fith they are berries j 

 •w. they may be termed of Bacc^bcmcs^Vaccinia^s though they fhould be called Baccwia. Yet this 

 lctteth not that there may be alfo other Vaccinias : for Vaccinia is m* **/** ditfio, or a word of diuers 

 fignifications.^/'/in the firft booke of his Bucolicks, ^/^.io.affirmeth that the written Hya- 

 cinth is named of the Lmu^Vacciniurn, tranflating into Latine Theocritus his verfe which is men 

 out of his tenth Eidyl. 



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Khi'tb* htfx{\eu »yr xj a tf*m UCaiUldit * 



Virgil : 



o 



funt$ 



Vitruvins , Ult . 7 . o f h i s 



and (hetr 



eth, that of it is made a gallant purple ., which feeing that the written Hyacinth cannot <M "J^ 

 needs be that this V actinium is another thing than the Hyacinth is,becaufe it ferues togi v 



iR.hathmadc mention of Vaccinia, which are vfed to dye bond-flaues gar- 



pie die. 



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ments with,and to giue them a purple colour. .. r ee ; ng t} 



But whether thefe be our Vaccinia or Whortle berries it is hard to a ffirme > ef P e " a ' n y ur s er oV 



Pliny reckoncth vp Vaccinia amongft thofe plants which grow in watery places j but ? ^ 



hish olaces vDonmnnnr fl ;n« rnKi*»A *r,«o\nA^ np'trhrr U it certainelv knowneto 



it 



vponmountainesfubjea to windes. neither is itcertainely knownei 



Howfoeuer it is,thefe our Whortle 



his r^«»/'^becaufe garments and Iinncn cloath may take from thefe a pi 

 The red Whortle berries hanc rh^ir nimr from the blacke Whortles 



atine 



fcflMUic^ 



Low Dutch, i^ooDe CwfeebeGon 



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