Lib. 3 
Of theHiftory of Plants 
12,81 
are of the bigneffe of thole of flax, but three fquare, containing a feed of thebigneffe of that of 
Henbane. Cltifms found this in diuers parts of Spaine, and lets it forthby the name of Cijlus folio 
Sampfuchi. f: 
Holly Rofes grow in Italy, Spaine, and Languedoc, and in the countries bordering vpon the ri- 
uer Padus, in all Hetruriaand Mafliles,and in many other of the hotter prouinces ofEurope,in 
dry and ftony places, varying infinitely according to the diuerfitie of the regions where they doe 
grow 5 of which I haue two forts in my garden, the firft, and the Cijlus annutts. 
The Holly Rofe is called in Greeke uw, or in Latine alfo Cijlus , and Rojo fyluatica : of di- 
uers, Rofa Canina, as Scribonius Largus writeth, but not properly •. in Spanifb, Ejlepa : of the Portu- 
gal, RofelU : in Englifh, Holly Rofe, and Ciftus, after the Greeke name. The fungous excrefcence 
growing at the rootofCiftus, is called in Greeke e™v< t ,becaufeitgrowethvnder the Ihrub Ci- 
ftus : it is alfo called Limodoron : fomecall it «/n»< .-among whom is Paulas JEgimto.^ who alfo doth 
not call that which growethvnder the flrrub Ciftus, but the iuyce hereof; whereupon 
might grow the word Hypocijlis, by which name the Apothecaries call this iuyce when it is hard- 
ned : offome 1 1 is called Erit button, Citinus, and Hypoquijlidos. 
neffe, that it hath withall a temperate heate : the leaues and the firft buds being beaten do only dry 
andbinde,in filch fort as they may clofc vp vleers,and ioyne together greene wounds. 
The floures are of moft force, which being drunke with wine are good againft the bloudy flix, A 
weakenefle of the ftomacke, fluxes, and ouerflowings ofmoift humors. 
They cure pUtrified vlcers being applied in manner ofa pultis : Viofcorides teacheth that they g 
arearemedie for eating vlcers, called in Greek wm, being anointed therewith ; and that they cure 
burnings,fca!dings,and old vlcers. 
t 19 Cijlus annutts fore mueulato. 
±20 Citlus folio Sampfichi. 
The Place. 
They floure from May to September. 
*J TbeTimc. 
The Names. 
*[ The Temperature. 
Ciftus, as Galen faith, doth greatly dry,necrehandin the fecond degree, andit isof thatcold- 
TbeVertues. 
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