of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 
~ A oven, ina new earthen pot,well covered'and clofe luted : after which they bee reduced into. pou- 
der,and mixed withwine. The afhes of the leaves burnt,healeth burnes. To keepe the fhare or 
groine from {welling, although there bee an ulcetthere, it is fufficient, if the partic have about 
~ him afhootor braunch onely of the Myrtle; provided alwaies, that ittouched neither yron nor 
the earth, ey elaine i 
As touching Myrtidanum,how it is made I have fhewed alreadie, Applied unto the matrice 
ornaturall parts of a woman either by way of foimentation or Jiniment,it doth much good.And 
much better, if it be made with thebarke,leafe,and berrie of the Myitle.Moreover,of the foftett 
leaves braied and {tamped in a morter,thereis a juice prefled foorth, by pouring preene wine by 
litcle and little among,and otherwhilesraine water :which is ufed much forthe ulcers and fores 
175 
B. of mouth, feat, matrice, and bellie : to die the haire blacke: to wafh and *bath the arme-holes. *«/rum pore 
with :to {courte away {pots and freckles: and in one word, when and wherefoever there is need, of fu/ien. 
aftriction. 2 : ' 
" Thewild Myrtle or Oxymyrfine, called alfo Chamemyrfine, differeth from the civile and 
gentle Myrtle,in the redneflé of the berries,andthe {mall grouth, The rootis highly efteemed : 
tor boiled in wine,and fo taken it drinke, it cureth the paine in the raines,the difficultie of urine, 
efpecially when it is thicke,and of aftrong favour. The jaundifealfo it helpeth,andcleanfeth the 
ematrice, if it be brought into pouder,and mixedwith wine. The young and tender buds eaten at- 
ter the manner of Sperage crops with meat, firft rofted in the embers ; the feed likewife taken in 
wine, oile,or vinegre ,breake the ftone. The fame feed ftamped and drawne with vinegre and oile 
_ © ‘ofat,allaiech the head-ach; butin drinkeit cureth the jaundife. Ca/for called Oxymyrfine (with 
the fharpe prickie leaves like the Myrtle,and wherewith beefomes be made) by the name of Ruf 
cus,and faith it hath the fame properties, Thus much for planted trees, and their medicinable 
vertues,proceed we nowforward to the wild, ; 
SPUR HISAR DIS 
Fa gn aa 
N,N Nak ost Lead: (WS. dea AOE: 
THE HISTORIE OF NATVRE, 
W:RAGE TG ENB Yi: C.): PLANT VS 
| SECVNDYS. 
DOL LOS 
E | we F The Proéme- 
Cuap, i Pog 
OS Medicinable vertues obfervedin wild Trees. 
gz Ature, that facred and bleffed mother of all things, willing anddefirous 
_that man, whom fhe loveth fo well, fhouldfind every place ftored with 
proper & convenient remedies for all maladies incident unto him; hath 
fe difpofed of her works,and taken that order,that therough woods and 
forrefts even the moft hideous parts of the earth,andfearefull ro fee un- 
_to,be not without their plants medicinable, Nay the very wildsand de- 
{ fertsareenriched and furnifhed therewith :infomuch, as in every coaft 
pa bE) and corner of the world there may be obferved both fympathies and an- 
tipathies(I meane thofe naturall combinations and contrarieties in thofe her creatures.) From 
whence proceed the greateft miracles which areto be feenein thisround fabrick and an irable 
ramé, 
Se 
