Lib. 3* Of the Hiftroy of Plants. tiyi 
TheTime. * 
They floure and flourifh with the other Rofes. 
The Names. 
The Englantine Rofe, which is Cynerrhodi, or Caninx Roftfecies, a kindeof Do^s Role and Reft 
fyluejiris, the wild Rofe : in low- Dutch, CfrjlantKt ; in French, Efglentine . and as AKe/Z/foteftifies 
Zgkmrium : whoalfo fiifpefts it to be Cynosbaton, or Camrubm : of which Diofcoruks hath written 
in tlieie words • CjnosbditHs^ oxCtotirubus^wWich. fbme Cell! Oxycantffii 3 is a fhmb growing like a tree 
full of prickles, with a white floure, long fruit like anoliue Rone, red when it is ripe.^nd downie 
within : in Englifh we call it Eglantine, orfweet Brier. 
The fpongie balls which are found vpon the branches are inoft aptly and properly called Span 
gioUfy/ueJlns Reft , the little fponges of the wi Ide Rofe. The (hops miftake it by the name of Bede ' 
guar , for Bcdeguar among the Arabians is a kinde of Thiftle, which is called in Greeke-A w3 » *„«, : 
that is to fay, spina albaihc white Thiftle, not the white Tliorne, though the word doe import Co 
The Brier or Hep tree is called Syluefris Rofa, the wilde Rofe : in high-Dutch, l©!lt)Ctt tiofetl * 
in French, Rofes famines : PlmyJib.i.cap.iyAmh that it is Reft Canma, ‘Dogs Rofe : of diuers Cant - 
nafentis, or Dogs Thorne : in Englifh, Brier buflh, and Hep tree : the laft hath been touched in the 
defcription. 
TheTemper attire andVertuts. 
The faculties of thefe wilde Rofes are referred to the manured Rofe, but not vfed in phyficke A 
where the other may be had : notvvithftandingF//»y affirmeth, that the.root of the Brier btilh is a 
Angular remedie found out by oracle, againft the biting ofa mad dog, which hefetsdowne in his 
eighth booke,chap.4 r . 
The fame Author/zAz y. cap. 2. affirmeth, that the little fpongie Brier ball Ramped with honey B 
andafhes caufethhaires to grow which are fallen through thedifeafe called Alopcciapi the Foxes 
etui], in plaine ternies the French pocks. 
Bitch fins affirnies, that the fpongie excrefcence or ball growing vpon the Brier are good againft C 
the ftone and ftrangurie, if they be beaten to pouder and inwardly taken. 
They are good not as they be diureticks or prouokers of vrine, or as they are wearers away of the D 
ftone but as certaine other binding medicines that ftrengthen the weake and feeble kidneyes- 
which do no more good to thofe that be fubieft to the ftone, than many of the diuretickes, efpeci- 
1 i°j 6 ftron § er ^ orc 5 ^ or t0 °nnichvfing of diureticks or piifing medicines, it hapneth that 
die kidneyes are oucr-weakened,and often times too much heated, by which meanes not only the 
ftones are not diminilhed, worne away, or driuen forth^ut oftentimes are alfo increafed and made 
more hard : for they feparate and takeaway that which in thebloud is thin, wateric,andasit were 
wheyiih; and the thicker part, the ftronger forts of diuretickes do draw together and make hard : 
and in Irke maner alfo others that are not fo ftrong, by theouermuchvfing of them,as Gaten.lib.%, 
of the faculties of Ample medicines reportetb. 
The fruit when it is ripe maketh moft pleafant meats and banqueting difhes, as tarts and fpeh E 
like ; the making whereof I commit to the cunning cooke, and teeth to eat them in the rich mans 
mouth. 
C h a p. 4. Of the Hr amble or blackfBerry bufb. 
The Defcription. 
1 T" comtIlon Bramble bringeth forth flenderbranches,long,tough,eafily bowed, tarn- 
P ln g among hedges and vvhatfoeuer Hands neere vnto it ; armed with hard and fharpe 
prickles whereon doe grow leauesconfiftingof many fet vpon a rough middle rib, 
greene on the vpper fide, and Underneath fomewhat white : on the tops of the ftalks Hand certaine 
floures in fhape like thole of the Brier Rofe, but leffer,of colour white, and fometimes waflit oiler 
witha little purple : the fruit or berry is like that of the Mulberry, firft red, blacke when it is ripe, 
in tafte betweene fweet and foure, very foft,and full of grains : the root creepetb,and fendeth forth 
here and there yongfpnngs. 
t Rubusreptnsfruttuc&fo. 
^ 2 Thii hath a round ftalke let full of fmall crooked and very fharpe prickin 0 ' thornes, and 
creepet on hedges and low bufhes ofa great length, on the vpper fid'e ofa light red cplour,and vn- 
erneath greene, and taketh root with the tops of the trailing branches? whereby it doth mightily 
fnersafe a 
