8po Of the Hiftorie of Plants: L 1 b. 2. 
f The Place. 
X 6 Clematis cruciata Albina. 
Virgins Bower of the Alps, 
Thefe plants do not grow wilde in England, 
that I can as yet !earnc ; notwith handing I haue 
them all in my garden, where they flourifh ex- 
ceedingly. 
The Time. 
Thefe plants do floure from Auguft to the 
end of September. 
% The Thames. 
There is not much more found of their names 
than is expreifed in their feuerall titles, not- 
withftanding there hath beene fomewhat faid, 
as I thinke,by heareiay,but nothing of certain- 
tie: wherefore let that which is fet downe fuf- 
fice. We may in Englilh call the firft , Biting 
C!ematis,or white Clematis, Biting Peruinkle 
or purging Peruinkle, Ladies Bower, and Vir- 
gins Bower. 
The Temperature. 
The leafe hereof is biting, and doth mighti- 
ly blifter, being, as Galen faith, of a cauftickeor 
burning qualitie: it is hot in the beginning of 
the fourth degree. 
The Vert ues. 
Diojcorides writetlgthat the leaues being ap- 
plied do heale the feurfe and lepry.and that the 
feed beaten, and the ponder drunke with faire 
water or with mead, purgeth fiegme and choler 
by the ftoole. 
Chap. jzS. Of ty lod-binde^or Hony^Jucfe, 
The Kindes. 
’ I 'Herebcdiuers forts of Wood-bindes, fomeofthem fhrubs with winding ftalks, that wrappe 
tbernfcluesfnto ftich things as are neere about them. Likewife there be other forts or kindes 
found out by the later Herbarifts,thatclimenotatall,but hand vpright, the which fhallbee fet 
forthamong the (hrubbie plants. And firft of the common Woodbinde. 
^ The Defcription. 
* \ /\ /Oodbindeor Honifuckle climeth vpaloft, hauing long flender wooddie ftalkes, 
Y V P art:e ^ * nto diners branches : about which ftand by ccrtaine diftances fmooth 
leaues.fet together by couples one right againft another; of a light greene co- 
lour abouc, vnderneathofawhitifh greene. The floures flrew themfelues in the topps of the bran- 
ches many in number, long, white, fweet offmell, hollow within ; in one part ftanding more out, 
with ccrtaine threddes growing out of the middle. The fruit is like to little bunches of grapes, red 
when they be ripe, wherein is contained fmall hard feed. The root is wooddie, and not without 
Brings . 
2 This ftrangekind of Woodbindhath leaues, ftalks, and roots like vnto the common Wood- 
binde or Homfuckle, failing that neere vnto the place where the floures come forth, the ftalkes doe 
grow through the leaues, like vnto the herbe Thorow-wax, called Perfoliata-, which leaues do refera- 
ble littlefaucers.-outofwhichbroadround leaues proceed faire, beautifull , and well fmelling 
floures, fhiningwith a ivhitiflr purple colour, and fomewhat dafht with yellow ,by little and little 
ftretched out like the nofe of an Elephant, garnifhed within with fmall yellow chiues or threddes : 
and when the floures are in their flourifhing, the leaues and floures do refemble faucers filled with 
