Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
L i B. 2. 
99 s 
farter to the ftemmes,and is of a fvveeter talk, 
wherein onely confifteth the difference. 
t There is alfo kept in our gardens ( onely 
forvarietie)another Strawberrie which in leaues 
and growing is like the common kinde ; but the 
floure is greenifh , and th.e fruit is harfb, rough, 
and prickely , being of a greenifh colour , with- 
forae (hew ofrednefl'e. M‘. IohnTradefca/ithath 
told me that he was the firft that tooke notice of 
this Straw-berry, and that in a womans garden 
atPlimouthjWhofe daughter had gathered and 
fet the roots in her garden in ftead of the com- 
mon Straw-berry :butfhe finding the fruit noc 
to anfwer her exportation, intended to throw it 
away : which labor he f pared her, in taking it and 
bellowing it among the louers offuch varieties, ’ 
in whofe gardens it is yet preferued. This may 
be called in Latine, Fragtria fruclu hijpido , The 
prickly Straw-berry, h 
t 3 This wild Strawberry hath leaues like 
the other Straw-berry, but fomewhat leffe, and 
fofter, flightly indented about the edges, and of 
a light greenecolour : among which rife vp {len- 
der (ferns bearing fuch floures as the common 
Straw-berries doe, but lefi’er, which doe wither 
away, leaning behinde a barren or chaffie head, 
in fhape likea Scraw-berrie,but of no worth or 
value : the root is like the others. 
The Place. 
Straw-berries do grow vpon hills and vallies, 
likewife in woods and other fuch places that be 
fomewhat fhadowie : they profper well in Gar- 
dens, the firft euery where, the other two more 
rare, and are nor to be found faue only in gardens. 
£ The barren one growes in diueis places, as 
vponBlackeheath.in Greenwich parke,&c. f 
The Time. 
The leaues continue greeneall the yeate : in the Spring they*fpred further with their firings, 
and floure afterward : the berries are ripe in Iune and Iuly. f The barren one floures in April and 
May,butneuer carries any berries. £ 
^ The Names. 
The fruit or berries are called in Latine by Virgil and Ouid, Fraga : neither haue they any other 
name commonly knowne : they are called in high-Dutch (EtDbCeten *. in low-Dutch, (EertbtHcn : 
in French, Fraifes : in Englifh, Strawberries. 
tp The Temperature. 
The leaues and roots docoole and dry,withanaftrirtionorbinding quality :but the berries be 
coW andmoift. 
^1 The Vcrtues. 
A The leaues boyledand applied in manner ofapultis taketh away the burning heate in wounds : 
the decoftion thereof ftrengthneth the gunames,faftneth the teeth, and is good to be held in the 
mouth, both againft the inflammation or burning heate thereof, and alfo of the almonds of the 
throat: they flay the ouermuch flowing of the bloudy flix, and other ifliies of bloud. 
B The berries quench third, and do allay the inflammation or heate of the ftomack : the nourifh- 
menr which they yeeld is little, rhin,and vvaterifh,and if they happen toputrifie in the ftomacke, 
their nourifhment is naught. 
C Thediftilled water drunke with white Wine is good againft the pafllon of the heart, reuiuing 
the fpirits,and making the heart merry. 
£> The diftilled water 'is reported to fcoure the face, to takeaway fpots,and to make the face faire 
and fmooth ; and is likewife drunke with good fucceffe againft the done in the kidnies. 
g The leaues are good to be put into Lotions or wafhing waters, for the mouth and the prime 
parts. 
The 
