The fixteencli Booke of 



alwaics covered with fnow, tbey are to be fcen in grcarcft plende . A wonderftilkbing, confide- G 

 ring that in all other places they love warmth, and without it, will not- grow : and befides, when 

 they have met with afamiliar ground unto them^ yet they care not much for it , butdifdairic ib 

 kind a nource: whereby a man mayfee^ that not onely the nature of the foile, andtbeordinarie 

 power of the elimatfetveth much for thefe plants, but alfo certaine fodaine and temporarieim- 

 prellionsof the aire doe wonderfully worke in this cafe: for fomefhowers there bec^that of ren- 

 times doe bring feeds with them and engender plants. The fame rains do fall fometime after one 

 certaine manner jotherwhiles alfoinfuchftraunge fortjas men are able to give no rcafon there- 

 of : A thing that befell to the countrey about Cyrene in Barbarie,at what time as the' hcarb La. 

 ferpitium (which beareth the gum Benjoinc) grew there firft : as hereafter we will write more at 

 large in our treatife of Hearbs. Morcovcrjabout the 430 yearc after the foundation of Romeci- H 

 ticj there fprung up a veryforeft or wood neare unto the fame citiejby rcafon of a certaine thicks 

 and glutinous fhowre like to Pitch, that then fell, 



Pf^ of Ivie, 



IT is faid, that now the Ivie tree groweth alfo in Afia : and yet Theo^hrajlm in his time delive- 

 red the contrarie, and affirm.cd,That neither it was to bee found there, nor yet throughout all 

 India, but only upon the mount Merus. Over & befides, it is reported,that U at f dtps did what 

 he could to ftore the countrey of Media therewith, but all in vaine . And as for K^lkxmder the 1 

 GreatjWhen he returned from out of India with vi^toriejfor the rarenefle therof he would have 

 all his fouldiours go in a fumptuous fhew,wearing chaplets therof upon their heads ; refembling 

 herein prince Bauh^fs^ in folemnities and high feafts of which god, the people of Thracia even 

 atthisday are furnifhedfrom this tree, anddoewith Iviefct out and garnifh the heads of theic 

 launces,pikes,and javelinsj their mourrons alfo and targuets. 



An enemie is Ivie doubtlelTe to trees, and generally to all plants and fets whatfoever:itcIea- 

 vcthand breaketh fepulchtes built of ftone, it linderminethcitie walls; good only to harbour 

 ferpents,and mofi comfortable for their cold completions :fo that I cannot chufe butmarveile 

 much that it fliould bee honoured at all, and accounted of any worth. But to enter into a more 

 particular confidcration and difcourfe of Ivie,twoprincipalI kinds are found thereofjlike as of all K 

 other trees, to wit, the male and the female ."The male is delcribed to bee a more mallivc and 

 greater bodie, to be clad with a harder and fattier leafe, and tofhew a flower inclining to pur- 

 ple: and yet the flower of them bothjihemale as well as the female, doth refemble that of the 

 wildRofeor Eglantinejfaveth'S.tithathnofinellatall. Thefe generall kinds containe each of 

 them three particular forts :for there is the black & the white Ivie, & a third befides named He- 

 lix. And yet we mufl admit other fubdivifions of thefe aIfo:fbr of the whitc,thcre is one fort that 

 beareth white fruit onelyjand another that hath white leaves withall : morcover,of fuch as carrie 

 only white fruition c kind hath big beries growing thicke togicher,and bunching round in man- 

 ner of grapes, which cluff crsbe called of the Greeks and Latins Coryfi, Afecond fort the^e is 

 of the white Ivie,named Selenitium, which beareth fmallerberies,and thole not foclofe fetand L 

 thicke couched togither. Semblably,itisto befaidof the black : for there is an Ivie that beareth 

 alfoa blackegraineorfeed : another with a fruit of a Saffron colour 3 and hereof are thcguir- 

 lands made which Poets weare :fome call it Nyfia, others Bacchica : the leaves of it are not al- 

 togithcrfoblackcjbutit beareth the greateft bunches and biggeft beries of allthebiacke kind. 

 Andverily of thislvie there beibme Greekewriters that maketwofortSjaccorditigto the divers 

 colours of the beries ; for,the one they call ErythranuSj[/. the Red 5] the other Chryfbcarposjas 

 one would fay, the golden-berry Ivie. Now as touching the rampant or climbing Ivie, HeliXj 

 there be many and fundrieforts thereof, differing in theirleafeefpecially:forfiiftandforemoft 

 the leaves of this I vie are finall,corner£d3and better fafhioncd than the refl , which in deed are 

 butof aplaineand fimple making. There is a difference likewife in thelengthbetweene every M 

 knot and joynt, but efpecially in this, that it is barrain and beareth no fruit at all. And yet fome 

 there be, who attribute that to ihz age, and not to a feverall kind of Ivie by it felfe ; faying. That 

 the fame which at firff was Helix, and clafped trees, in tract of timechaunged the leafe and be- 

 came 3 veryivie tree : but foully they are deceivedj-and dilprooved plainly they may be by this. 



That 



