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B. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants,? 
86 j 
5 Velubilis nigra. 
Blaeke Bindweed. 
- i 4 The ftalkes and branches of this are 
fome cubite long, (lender, weake and hairy, 0> 
that they lie vpon the ground, if they haiieno- 
thing tofuftaine them: vpon thefe without any 
order grow leaues,fhaped like thofeofluy, or 
the marfh Mallow, but IefTe, and couered ouer 
with afiluer-like downeor hairineffe,and diuj. 
ded fomewbat deep on the edges, fometimes 
alfo curled, and otherwhilps onely fniptabout 
The floure growes vpon long ftalkes like as in 
other plants of this kinde, and con lifts of one 
foldingIeafe,likeas thatof the Iaft mentioned 
and it is either of a whitifh purple, or df e a hf 0 ! 
iute purple colour : The root is fmall and cree- 
ping.lt growes in many places of Spaine, and 
there floures in March and A prill, Clup.us calls, 
this Convolttulus Althea folio , and faith that the 
Portugals name \tVcrdez,illa, and commend it 
as A thing mold effeftuall to heale wounds. Our. 
Au thour gaue the figure hereof (how fitly let 
the Reader iudge) by the name of Papauer cor. 
nut urn hiteum minus, making it a horned Poppy 
as you may fee in the former Edition , i‘a/ 
i?4- t 
t 5 This kinde ofBindwecd hath a tough 
root full of threddie firings, from which rife vp 
immediatly diuers trailingbranches,wheriipon 
grow leaues like the common field Bindweed 
or like thofe of Orach, of a black green colour 
whereof it tooke his nameithe floures are final’ 
and like thofe of Orach: the feed is black, three' 
. | • . . - . fquare,Iike,but lcflethan that of Buck -wheat 
ep ^ [ant is not onel ly ahurtful II weed, butofaneuill fmellalfo, and too frequency found 
moil ft corn e . Bo don aits calls this Convolvulum nigrum : mdHclxine,CiJfampelos : Tdermmontmus 
Volubihs nigra : and Label, Helxrnc Cijfampelos alter a ^ftnphcis epgie. 1 
afidfoS §r0V ^ Very P !entifulI y in mod parts of England, * t he third 
If The Time. 
They do floure from May to the end of Auguft. 
ti V The 7i lames. 
hegreat Bindweed is called in Greeke «/,, in Latine, SmiLx Lands : of Galen and P.tulta 
nonr^M '“** w-.ttisfornamed Worfmooth, becaufe the ftalkes and branches thereof haue 
likewir f v a ; Zf/ ^, ca v e< i alf0 ot Kidney beane.doth differ from this : and 
r ffsdnefn tv r 1C a ee,W , h ' C ^ ^ Latlnes cal1 Taxtis ' in Englifh, the Yew tree. The later Herba- 
nffs do ca II this Bindweed Volubihs mator^ampancllajunis arborum,Convoluulus albus and SmiLx U- 
JlwT- ’’ hke man r er P ll3y , m hls 2 1 • booke ’ 5 -chapt.doth alfo name it Comoluulus.lt is thou°-hc 
Jtk &% $Si S3 * ma > bl " tl “ mh,ch “"‘ d »**« «*»*£► 
r)„T!a! ^•l I i lndv r eCd T Cal ls d Convolu « l u* minor , and Smilax lauis minor , Volubilis minor •• in hi<?h 
r ' 5 I in Low D utch,l©jatjge J in French, Lifer on: in I ti\inn,V ilucch/o .• in Spanifh 
Campamlla Terua .- m Englift,Withwinde,Bindeweed,and Hedge-bels. P 9 
r , , *T The Nature. 
Thcie herbs are of an hot and dry temperature. 
T , , r , . If The Vertucs. 
dr I C Tu I back . e Bindweed called He lx me cijfampelos , ftampedand ftrained.and the iuice A 
drunken, doth Ioofe and open the bellie exceedingly. 1 A 
anZfiTellhigs S ,^ tC> the § r * eued pIac <A 'diffolueth,wafteth,and confumeth hard lumps B 
The 
