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Of the Hiftoric of Plants. 



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3 The fame Author fets forth another fort, which he found in the mountains of Moraviaand 

 Hungary, hauing a trunk or ftock of the height of three or foure cubits, coucred with a bark ereen 

 ac the firft,afterwards fpnnkied ouer with many blacke fpots : the boughs are diuided toward the 

 top into diuers fmall branches,very brittleand eafie tobreake, whereon are placed leaues by cou 

 plcsal(o,oneoppofite to another,fomewhatfnipt about the edgevnfhape like thofeof the e re at 

 Myrtle,of an aftnngent tafte at the beginning,after fomewhat hot and bitter : among which come 

 forth fmall floures Handing vpon long naked footftalks.con fitting of foure little leaues of a bright 

 Ihimng purple colour,hauing m the middle fome few fpots of yellow : after comes the fruit foure 

 cornered.not vnlikc to the common kind,of a fpongious fubfta'nce,and a gold yellow co!or,where- 

 in is contained not red berries like theotber,but black,verv like to thofe olFraxmeBapi a fliining 

 blacke colour hkevnto brandifhed home ; which are dcuoured of birds when they be ripe and the 

 rather becaufe they fal I of themfelues out of their husks, 6therwife the bitterneffc of the'huskes 

 would take away the delight. 



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kes and heapes of 



thornes. 



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Clttfitu found in a wood in Hungary beyond the riuer Drauus,and alfo vp 



mountaines of Moravia and other places ad iacent 



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ripe in the end of Aug! 



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tjtut calleth this fhrub t^v. and defcribeth it, lit. 3 . of the Hiftorie of Plants 



' t^inonjmot .• Petrm Crefcemim calleth it Fuf 



£l w ™^ cre ° r /> an i for ? a i caufe k is called in h, s hDucch '^P^fU»amii,yetraoftof th« 



^an^fiUUn : in low-Dutcb 3 #apeM)OUt : in Italian,i*/i« •• in Frcnch^ar/fo.and Btniut dt prefi, 

 in Enelifh,Spindletree,Prickwood.and Prick-timber. * 



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"1 The Temperature tndVertuts. 



his fhrub is hurtfull toall things,as Thcophraflus writeth, and namely to Goats : bee faith the A 

 : hereof killeth ; fo doth the leaues and fruit deftroy goats efpecially.vnleOe they fcour as wel 

 ards as downewards : if three or foure of thefe fruits be giuen to g man they purge by vomit 





hap. 107. Of iheblacfyzAUerTreei 



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^ The Hefcriftion. 



He blacke Aller tree bringeth forth from the root fhaight ftalks diuided into diueri bran- 

 ches, the outward barke whereof is blacke.and that next to the wood yeIlow,and giuetha co. 

 lour as yellow as Saffron : the fubftanceof the wood is white and brittle,with a reddifh pith 



rounder 



» this there be two little ftones : the root runneth along in the earth, 



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the firft green,afrerward red.and laflly black 



ft woods and copfes : I found great plenty of it in a wood 



of the way • and in the woods at Hampfted nectc London, and in mod Wood 



tondon. 



the right hand 





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fpring, and the berries about Auturane 



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called Mftut nitrrapr blacke Alder 5 and by others Fran^ula .■ Petrm Crtfcenti* 



^patfcetlljOttt, and ofrcntimes #{ jtyoat 



-7 ^cmiciuesarrowestnere< 



"luersjButchers pricke tree. 



jfaaibSttm : in EngUOi, blacke Alier tree, and of 



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