Lib. i. 
Of the Hiflory of Plants. 
the floures of Woodbinde: many times it falleth out, that there is to be found three or fonre Qu- 
eers one aboue another, filled with floures.as the firii, which hath caufed it to be called double Ho- 
ny-fuckle,or Woodbinde. 
I Pericl'jmenum. 
, Woodbinde or Honifuckles. 
2 Pericljmenumperfoliatum 
. Italian Woodbinde., 
«|j The Place. 
The Woodbinde groweth in woods and hedges, and vponfhrubbes and bullies, oftentimes 
winding it felfe fo ftraight and hard about , that it leaueth his print vpon thole things fo 
wrapped. ' . . 
The double Honifuckle groweth now in my garden, and many others like wile in great plenty, 
although not long fince,very rare and hard to-be found, except in the garden of fome diligent Her- 
barifts. 
The Time. 
The Ieaues come forth betimes in the fpring : the floures bud forth in May and Iune •' the fruit 
is ripe in Autumne. 
The Names. 
It is called m Greekc : in Latin Q^Volucrum maius : of Serihouius Z.argue,Sy r u£mdter : in 
fhops, Cxprifolium, and OWatrifiliut : of fome, lilum inter fpi/ias : in Italian, in High 
Dutch, dSepgblaht t in Low Dutch, ©i)cptenblaDt,and apammefeensf Ctuir : m French, cW- 
fueille: in Spanifh,Ma;/rf/i/«a in Englifh,VVoodbinde, Honifuckle, and Captifoly. 
«yj- The Temperature. 
Therehathan errouf in times pad growne amongft a few, and nowalmoft palirecouerietobee 
called againe,being growne an errourvniuerfall, which errour is, how the decoftion of the Ieaues of 
Honifuckles, or the diftilled water of the floures, arerafhly giuen for the inflammations ofthe 
mouth and throte, as though they were binding and cooling. But contrarivvife Honifuckleis nei- 
ther cold nor binding ; but hot, and attenuating or making thinne. Foras Galen faith, both the 
fruit ofVVoodbinde,andalfo the leaues,do fomuch attenuate and heat, as iffomevvhat too much 
of them be drunke,they will caufe the vtine to be as red as blond, yet do they at the firlt onely pro- 
uoke vrine. 
