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Fig:J°»Ji. i^ 5 . Fig. Valiums five Rhammts 3 Diofcoridis 
Va?!{. ico 6. Fig- Rhamnus five Valiums folio Jujubino 
I B. r. 1 . 6. p. 55« Rhamnus folio fubrotundo, fructucom- 
p re ffo G B. 477. 5. 
The Flowers are ftellated, fmall, of a greenifh yellow, 
growing in Clufters araongft the Leaves, which are fer- 
rated like the Jujube. Its Fruit is bard and fomewhat Bell- 
fafhioned, including 3 Kernels , which rathe in the Cells 
w-hen ripe. It grows in the Hedges and Fields about 
Montpelier , and feveral Parts of Italy , whe e it Flowers in 
May and June, and bears ripe fruit in the Autumn, which 
hangs on the Trees all Winter. Petrus BeUonius , who 5 
travell’d over the FJotyland, days it was with this Thorn 
they crowned our Saviour , and gives this Reafon for it s, > 
That in Judea there was not any Thorn fo fit, pliant and 
prickley as this, and that in thofe parts it grew in fo great 
abundance, that they burn it for Fewel, as we do cur Gofs 
or Furfe. 
Common Spindle Tree. R.ay 1621. 1. 76 ’ 
Euonpm/ss Dod. 783. Fig. Taberv. 1047. Ic. 1: Hijl. 2. Names- 
p. 754. Fig. Euonymus Theophrafii Ger. 1284. Fig. 1. 
JohnJl. 1468. Fig. 1. Euonymus vulgaris Park , . 241. Fig. 1. 
vulg. gram’s rubenribusC B. 428. 1. Euonymus 2 Clnf 57, . 
Fig. Pann. 95. Fig. Euonymus multis, aiijs Tetragonia 
Chabr. 62. Ic. 6 . LB. 1. 1. 8. p. 201 . Fig. 
This makes a pretty Shew in Hedges, efpecially in the 
Autumn and towards Winter, when its red Flusks open, 
and expofe its Orange Kernels. 
Broad, purple flowred Spindle Tree. 
Euonymus latifolius, fl. purpureo Nobfa. 77 
This rare Tree feems to differ from both the Hunga- Names. • 
rian forts of Qlujius , the broad leaved, like this, having 
white or flefii Coloured Flowers , and the Leaves of the 
Purple flowred refemble our Common. I faw this in 
Flower with great Pleafure in the Bifnop of Londons Gar- 
den at Fulham. 
French ; 
