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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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The Names. 
The Rofe is called in Latine Rofa-.in Greeks and the plant it fclfe (which in Latine 
) heepeth the fame name that the floure hath)and it is called Rodon (as Plutarch faith) becaufe it fen- 
jj deth forth plenty of fmell. 
! The middle part of the Rofes, that is, the yellow chines, or feedsand typs, is called Anthos , and 
Tins Rofee, the floure of the Rofe : in Chops, Anther apt the blowing of the rofe. 
1 he white parts of the leaues of the floure it/elfe, by which they are fattened to the cups, he na- 
1 med Vngu s or nails. That is called Calix, or the cup,which contained! and holdall in together the 
j yellow part and leaues of the floure. 
Alabaftri, are thofe parts of the cup which are deeply cut,& that compafle the floure clofe about 
| before it be opened, which be in number flue, two baue beards and two haue no: e. and the fift haih 
i buthalfeone : moftdocal! them Cortices Rofarum,or the husks of the rofes : the (hoots of the plant 
: of rofes, Strabo Callus in his little garden doth call Viburna. 
The white Rofe is called Re fa alba : in Englifh,the white Rofe : in high Dutch KOOftn: 
i in low Dutch, in French, Rofe Blanche : of Plmie, Spmeola Refa, or Rof a Camjiana. 
The red Rofe is called in Latine, Rofa rubra : the Frenchmen, Rofe Franche,kofe ete Pronins, a towne 
I in Campaigner of Plmie, Tracbmia,or Pr,taeftina. 
The Damaske Rofe is called ofthe Italians Rofaincarnata- in high Dutch XtibfaVotije IROOfCrt: 
i in low Dutch, ^OUCUCie tftoof? ot Come.Rofa Brovina alts, os Rofe of Prouence: in French of fome, 
, CMelefia the hole of Melaxo,a citie in Afia, from whence fome haue thought it was firft brought 
into thofe parts of Europe. 
The great Rofe, which is generally called thegreat Prouence rofe, which the Dutch men cannot 
endurejfor fay they, it came firft out of Holland, and therefore to b e called the Holland Role : but 
by al 1 likelihood it came from the Damaske rofe, as a kinde thereof, made better and fairer by art, 
whichfeemeth toagreewithtruth. 
The rofe without prickles is called in Latine. R>ofa(ineJ}inis, andmaybe calledin Englifh, the 
rofe without thomes.or the rofe of Auftrich,becaufe it was firft brought from Vienna, the Metro- 
politan citie of Auftrich,andgiue ntothat famous Herbarift Carolus Clufhts. 
The Temperature. 
The leaues ofthe fioures of rofes, becaufe they doe con fift of diuers parts, haue alfodiuers ar:4 
fundry facultiesrfor there be in them certain that are earthy and binding, others moiftand watery, 
and fundrie that are fpiritnall and airie parts, which notwithftanding are not all after one fort, for in 
one kindethefe excell, in another thofe, all of them baue a predominant oronetruling cold tempe- 
rature, which is neereft to a meane,that is to fay, of fuch as are cold in the firft degree, moift, airie, 
and fpirituall parts arc predominant in the White rofes, Damaske and Muske. 
7 heVntues.. 
The diftilled waterof rofes is good for the ftrengthning of the heart, & rcfrefhing ofthe fpirits, A 
and likewife for all things that require a gentle cooling. 
The fame being put into mnketting diihes, cakes, fauces, and many other pleafant things, giueth B 
a fine and deleiftable tafte . 
Itmitigateth the paine of the eies proceeding of a hot caufe,bringeth flcep,whichallb the frelTi C 
rofes themfelues prouoke through their fweet and pleafant fmell. 
The iuice of thefe rofes, efpecially ofDamask,doth moue to the ftoole.and maketh the belly fo- D 
luble.-but moft effectually that ofthe Musk rofcs.-next to them is the iuice ofthe Damask, which is 
more commonly v fed. 
The infufion of them doth the fame, and alfo the fyrrupmade thereof, called in Latine Drofatum, E 
or Scrapium : the Apothecaries call it Syrrupof rofes folutiue, which muftbe made ofthe infufion 
in which a great number ofthe leaues ot tbefe frefh rofes are diners and fundry times fteeped. 
It is profitable to make the belly loofe& foIub!e,whenas either there is no need ofother Itron- I> 
ger purgation,or that it is not fit and expedient to vfe it : for befides thofe excrements which flick 
to the bowels, or that in the firft and neereft veines remaincraw, flegmaticke, and now and then 
cholericke, it purgeth no other excrements, vnlefle it be mixed with certaine other ftronger medi- 
cines. 
This fyrrup doth moiften and coole ,and therefore it alayctb the extremitie of heat in hot bur- G 
ning feuers,mitigateth the inflammations ofthe intrails, and quencheth thirfbit is fcarcegood for 
a weakeand moift ftomackeTor it leaueth it more flacke and weake. _ 
Of like vertue alfo are the leaues of thefe preferued in Sugar, efpecially if they be onelybruifed II 
with the lunds,and diligently tempered with Sugar, and fo heat at the fire rather than boiled. 
ey The Temperature of Red Rofes. 
There is in the red Rofes, which are common euery where, and in the other that be of a deep pur- 
ple, called Prouence rofes, amoreeatthie fubftance, alfo a drying and binding qualiue , yet not 
T " . without 
