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Of the Hiftorie of Pla 



Cornuafcemina 



ic Dog-berry 



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the firft,and of a fhining blacke colour 

 when they bee ripe, in tafte vbpleafant % and not 

 cared for of the birds. 



5[ The Place. 



roweth in hedges and bufhes in 



euery country of England. 



The fioures come forth in the Spring in the 

 moneth of April! : the berries vc ripe in Au- 





tumne. 



«[J The Name /. 





The Italians doc / w 



and Sanguine/I*. Petrus Crcfccntius tcrmes it San~ 

 guinm ; and CMatthtoltw^ Virga [anguine* : Plmj y 

 ttA.24.cap.10. hath written a iittleof Virga San- 

 guine* : Neither is Virga fangutnea , faith hec, 



counted more happy ; the inner barke whereof 

 doth breake open the fcarres which they before 

 baue healed. It is an hard thing, or peraducn- 

 turearadipart, toaffirme by tbefefew words, 

 that Pliny his Virga fanguinea is the fame that 

 the Italian Sanguinis. This is called in high 



Dutch^atttfajel: in low Dutch, n&flDe €(%* 



llOelle, that is to fay, Cornm fjluepk , or wiide 

 Cornell tree : and in Vjcnch y Ctrneff;erfaauage:in 

 Englifh, Hounds tree. Hounds berry, Dogs ber- 

 ry tree, Pricke-Tirabcr : in the North countrey 

 they call it Gaten tree,or Gater tree ; the berries 

 whereof fecme to be thofe which Chaucer caHeth 

 Gater berries \Valerius Cor Jus nameth it *u»*f*„~ 





Fal f* 

 Theofhraftus his s*\l*t«t* , or Cornm ft 



nell tree. This hath little branches hauing pith within, neither be they hard nor found, like thofe 

 of the male : the fruit is A'tom, that is, not fit to be eaten, and a late fruit which is not ripe till after 



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haue written) 



pleafant,and require a long time before they can be ripe. 



^T The Temperature. 



The berries hereof are of vnlike parts h for they haue fome hot^bitter, and clenfing, and very ma- 

 ' cold,dry a harfh,and binding,yet they haue no vfe in medicine. 



^[ The Vertues. 



tMttthhlm vmteth,That out of the berries firft boy led, and afterwards preflcd, there iflueth an 

 oyle nrhich the Anagnian country people do vfe in lamps : hut it is not certaine nor very like, that 



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the barke of th 



for he faith,as we haue already fet d( 



fears which they before haue healed 



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Chap. \o6. f Sf indie tree or ^Pricfyjtoood. 



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^ The Defcripion. 



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PRicke-wood is nbhigh (hrub,of thebignelTe of the Pomegranattree : it fpreadeth f 

 with his branches : the old ftalks haue their barke fomewhat white • the new and d 





wood 



andfnixedwicha light yellow : the leaucs be long, broad, (lender, and foft : the floures bee white, 



vpon 



containing foure white leeds,euery 

 offgiueth a yellow die. 



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