12,74 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L i b. 3. 
If The Names. 
The Bramble is called in Greeke um-. in VKnch,Ronges,Loi Dttyts Brelmers : in Latine,il«^,and 
Sentil, and fepres, as Omd writeth in his firft booke of Metamorpho fis. 
A ut Leporiqiei vcpre latcns heft ilia cernit 
Oracanum. 
Or to th' Hare, thatvnder Bramble clofely lying, fpies 
The hoftile mouthes of Dogs. 
Ofdiuers it is called Cynosbattis, but not properly , for (fynoslatus is the wild Rofe, as we haue writ- 
ten : in high- Dutch, ©JCtUCiJ ; in low-Dutch,23jecmttl fin French, Rouce : in Italian, GarZf in 
Englifh, Bramble bufh, and Black-berry bufh. 
The fruit is named in Latine Mortim rubi • and as Fuchfius thinketh, Vacinium, but not properly : 
in (hops, Mora Bati ; and in fitch (hops as arc more barbarous, CMora Baft i in Englifh , Blacke- 
berries. 
The Rafpis is called in Greeke ntmutf*-. in Lacinc, Rub us idtws, of the mountaine Ida on which 
it groweth : in Englifh, Rafpis, Framboile, and Hinde-berry. 
. The Temperature and Vertues. 
A The yong buds or tender tops of the Bramble bufh, the floures, the Ieaues,and the vnripe fruit, 
do very much dry and binde withall : being chewed they takeaway the heate and inflammation of 
the mouth, and almonds of the throat : they (lay the bloudy flix, and other fluxes,and all maner of 
bleedings: of the fame force is their deco&ion, with a little honey added. 
B They heale the eyes that hang out, hard knots in the fundament, and flay the hemorrhoids, if 
the leaues be layd thereunto. 
C The iuyee which is prefled out of the ftalks, leaues, and vnripe berries, and madehard in the Sun, 
is more effeiftuall for all thofe things. 
D The ripe fruit is flveet, and containeth in it much iuyee ofa temperate heate, therefore it is not 
vnpleafant to be eaten. 
E It hath alfo a certaine kinde of aftri&ion or binding qualitie. 
p It is likewife for that caufe wholfome for the ftomack,and if a man eat too largely therof,fai th 
Galen, he fhall haue the head-ache .-but being dried whiled: it is yet vnripe it bindeth anddrieth 
more thaii the ripe fruit. 
G The root befides that it is binding containeth in it much thin fubdance, by reafon whereof it 
wadethaway the done in the kidnies, faith Galen. 
H P/wy writeth, that the berries and floures do prouokevrine,and that the deco&ion of them in 
wine is a prefent remedie againfl the done. 
I Theleauesof the Bramble boiled inwater, with honey, allum, and a little white^vine added 
thereto, make a mod excellent lotion or wafhing water to heale the fores in the mouth, the priuie 
parts of man or woman, and the fame dccoftion fadneth the teeth. 
K The Rafpis is thought tobe like the Bramble in temperature and vertues, but not fo much bin- 
ding or drying. The Rafpis, frith Dioftcorides, performeth thofe things which the Bramble doth. 
The fruit is good tobe giuen to thofe that haue weake and queafre Aomacks, 
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C h a p. 5. Of Holly c RgfeSj or Ciftus. 
The Kindes. 
C l It us hath been taken ofdiuers to be a kinde ofRofe: the old Writers haue made two forts 
thereof, male and female; andlikewifea third fort,which is called Ledum .- the later Herba-i 
rids haue dilcouered diuers more, as fhall be declared. 
esi gcncrall Defcription, wherein all the forts of Ciftus are comp rifted. 
C Jftus and his kindes are wooddy (limbs full of branches, of the height of two or three cubits r 
fome haue broad leaues, others rough, vneuen, wrinkled, fomewhat downy, and mod like the 
leaues ol Sage ; although fome haue the leaues ofRofemary, others the forme of thofe of the 
Poplar tree : the floures grow on the tops of the branches, like vnto the wild Rofe, yet fuch as very 
quickly fade, perifh,and" fall away : thofe of the male ate mod of a reddilh blew or purple colour ; 
and of the female white : in their places come vp little heads or knops fomwhat round, in 'which is 
contained final! feed ; the roots of them all are wooddy, 
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