so6 ftbe (Barren 



does likewise produce a certain green fly, 

 almost invisible, which is exceedingly trouble- 

 some, and gathers a fiery redness where it 

 attacks. 



Evonymus. Spindle.-tree. This is a shrub 

 which commonly grows in our hedges, and 

 bears a very hard wood, of which they some- 

 times make bows for viols, and the inlayer uses 

 it for his color, and instrument-makers for 

 toothing of organs, and virginal keys,* tooth- 

 pickers, etc. What we else would do with it I 

 know not, save that (according to its name 

 abroad) they make spindles with it. I also 

 learn that three or four of the berries purge 

 both by vomit and siege, and the powder, made 

 of the berry, being baked, kills nits, and cures 

 scurfy heads. Matthiolus says the poor people 

 about Trent press oil out of the berries where- 

 with to feed their lamps. But why they were 

 wont to scourge parricides with rods made of 

 this shrub, before they put them into the sack, 

 see Modestinus, L. penult. SS. ad Leg em Pomp. 

 de Parricid ; cited by Mr. Ray. 



* Mr. Evelyn subsequently refers to the virginals as a 

 musical instrument played on by young ladies in his 

 time. It was made like the harpsichord, and was played, 

 upon by the fingers, 



