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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
The Time. 
The red winter Cherrie beareth his floures and fruite in Auguft. 
The blacke beareth them at the fame time, where it doth naturally grow. 
The Names. 
The red winter Cherrie is called in Greeke, ■ in Lau[\e,Vcficaria,ahd Solatium V e ft can urn : 
in (hops, Alkekengi Phnic inhis2i. booVenamethil Halicacabm ^nAVeficariiijOi the little blad- 
ders : or as the fame Author writeth,becaufe it is good for the bladder and the ftone: it is called 
in Spanilh, Vexigadeporro : in French, Alquec]uenges,Bagenauldes, and Cerifes d’ outre mer : in Eng- 
lifh, red Nightlhade, Winter Cherries, and Alkakengie. 
I Solatium H dicacahum. 
Red winter Cherries. 
The blacke winter Cherrie is called Halacacdm Peregrimm,Vefuaria Peregrina,ot ftrange winter l 
Cherrie : of Pena and LoM it is called, Corlndum, Corlndicum : of others///*® Cor datum , in Eng- . 
liQi the Indian heart,or heart peaferfome haue taken it to be Dorycnion, but they are greatly dccei- 
ued’ being in truth not any of the Nightfhades ; it rather feemeth to agree with the graine named 
o£ Serapio^Abrong.ox Abrugi, of which. he vvriteth in his 1 5 3. chapter in thefe words : It is a little 
graine fpottedwith blacke and white,round, and like the graine Maiz,with which notes this doth , 
agree. 
The Temperature. 
The red winter Cherrie is thought tobe cold and drie,and of fubtile parts. 
The leaues differ not from the temperature of the garden Nightfhade,as Galen faith. 
The Venues. _ , 
a The fruite brufed and put to infufe or fteepe in white wine two or three houres, and after boi- 
led two or three bublings, draining it, and putting tothedecoftionalittle fugar and cinnamon, , 
and drunk e, preuaileth very mightily againft the Hopping of vrine, the ftone and grauel!,theditti- 
cultie and fharpenes of making water, and fitch like difeafes : if the gnefe be old, the greater quan- ■ 
titvmuft be taken; if new and not great, the leffe : it fcoureth away the yellow jaundile a!lo,as • 
forne write. 
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