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I B. I. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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7 he Time and Place. 
1 Ciues are fet in gardens, they flourifh long, and continue many yeares, thev fufFer the rnU 
of W inter . They are cut and polled often, as is the vn fet Leeke. } 
2 The Vine- leeke groweth of it felfc in Vineyards.andneerevnto Vines in hot regions ,vber- 
ofit both tooke the name Vine-Leeke, and French Leeke. It bearethhis greene leaues in Win 
ter, and vvithereth away in the Sommer. It groweth in moft gardens ofEngland. 
f Thusfarreour Author defenbes and intimates to you a garden Leeke, much like the ordi- 
nary in all refpefts, but fomew hat larger. But the following names belong to the wilde Leeke 
which here we gitie you in the third place. £ 
The Names. 
Ciues are called in Greeke,a?»»»e*w, Shaenefrafum : in Dutch, ©tcfloatft, as though you' fhould 
fay Imcenm Porrum , or Ruih Leeke : in Englifli, Ciues, Chines, Ciuetand Swcth/in French 
Brelles. 5 
■ + 2 ,, Vine-leeke, or rather wild Leeke, is called in Greeke, of the placewhere 
it naturally groweth : it may be called in Latin e,Pomim Fit turn {n VitigineumPomm : in Englifli 
after the Greeke and Latine, V me Leeke, or French Leeke. ^ 5 
The Temperature. 
the^ther Leeke C “ faCl,ltie Vnt ° the Lcekc >h°tand dry. The Vine leeke heateth more than doth 
«i TheFertuss. 
Ciues attenuate or make thinne, open,prouokc vrine, ingender hot and grofle vapours and are A 
th^Leekedoth^* ^ h” 1 " 6- 1 hcy cauFe tr0llblefome dteames,andworkeaII the effe&s that 
The Vine-leeke, or Ampeloprafon, prouoketh vrine mightily, and bringeth downe the floures B 
It cureth the bitings of venomous beafts,as Diofcorides writeth. * 
1 The figure of was in *c firft place, in the Chapter next bat one, by the name 
Chap, 97. Of (jarlicke. 
The Dcfcription, 
1 T” 1 hulbeor head of Garlicke is couered with moft thinne skinnes or filmes of averv 
1 light white purple colour, confifting of many clones feuered one from another vnder 
leaues I th - C S l° lmd bd °' V F 0lveth a of Freddy fibres : it hath long greene 
ieaueshkethofe of the Leeke, among which rifethvpa ftalke at the end of thefecond or third 
when’v • lereUP ° n d0t l P° VV a tllft ° F fl ° l,res couered with a white skinne, in which beino- broken 
when it is npe,appeareth round blacke feeds. , 0 DrolvLn 
r* * , T1 f re lsalfo another Garlicke which growes wilde in fome places of Germanie and 
redde?’ The fln" lliape , , ? uck rcfemb . les the ordinarie, but the clones of the roots are fmaller and 
. The floure is alfo ofa more duskie and darke colour than the ordinarie. $ 
^ r If The Place and Times. 
Decemhi u foivne of fL ; ed ’ but P Ianted 1 n S ardens of i the fmall clones in Noucmber and 
December, and fometimes m Februarieand March eranrt 
I . .. , . The Names. 
1 1 . is called in Latine, \_Allum.- in Greeke,™^*,: The Apothecaries r 
am “hep 11 ic “ !auc! 5 *• rhL ' D « cb ,?lOOU : the Spaniards, 
mansTreack? ^ rencb ’ ^ or Aux •' tke Bohemians, .• the Englifli , Garlicke, aS pSe 
skinn?bfraifmlb y Mcrs!’ h0t,and ^ ^ faidl ’ in dlC faufth de S ree > and ^ulccrateth the 
T, ■ TheFertuss. 
yeeldeth to the body no nourifhment at all, it ingendreth naughty and Hiarpc blond. There- 
P 3 fore ’ 
