Lib. 5. Of the Hiflory of Plants. 1297 
5f The Nama. 
Vpright Wood-binde or Hony-fucklc is called Periclymcntim flans, and Periclymennm rettum, or 
vpright\Yood-binde:of7?U(/o»<«(w, Xjloficum : in high-Dutch, i^onDjt fettfctl, that is to fay ,Ca- 
nnm Cerafa, or Dog Cherries. The Englifh names are expreffed in their feuerall titles. It hath bin 
called Chamxcerafus , but not truly.' 
5 J ThcT emper attire and Venues , 
Touching the temperature and vertues of chefc vpright Wood-bindes, we haue no experience 
at all our (dues, neither haue we learned any thing of others. 
Chap. 10. Of Sene, 
Sena folijs abtufls, 
Italian Sene. 
5 [ The Dcfcription. 
S Ene bringeth forth (talks a cubit high, fee 
with diners branches : the leaues are long, 
winged, confiding of many frhall leaues 
like thofe of Liquorice, or of baltard Sene : the 
floures come forth of the bottom of the wings, 
of colour yellow, (landing vpon (lender foot- 
ftalks ; from which after the floures be gone 
hang forked cods,the fame bowing inward like 
a halfe-moone, plain and flat, in which are con- 
tained feeds like to the feeds or kernells of 
grapes,ofablackifh colour. The root is (len- 
der, long, and vnprofitable, which perifheth 
when the leaues are gathered for medicine, and 
the feeds be ripe, and muft be fowne againe the 
next yeare, euen as we do corne. 
There is another kinde of Sene growing in 
Italy, like the other in each re(pe£t,fauing that 
it is greater, and hath not that force in purging 
that the other hath. 
' 5 [ The Place and Time, 
This is planted in Syria and Egypt, alfoin 
Italy, in Prouince in France, in Languedoc. It 
hardly groweth in high and low Germany, nei- 
ther in England : it profpereth in hot Regions, 
and cannot away with cold ; for that caufe it is 
in Italy fowne in May, and continueth no lon- 
ger than Autumncrthe bed is brought from 
Alexandria and Egypt. The Arabians were the 
firft that found it out. 
5 | The Names. 
The Pcrfians call it Ahal^emtr, as CMcfuc his copy teacheth : the Apothecaries Sena, by which 
name it was knowne to \jictuariws the Grecian, and to the later Latines : it is called in Englifh^ 
Sene. 
5[ The Temperature. 
Sene isofameane temperature, neither hot nor cold, yet inclining toheate,anddry almoft in 
the third degree : it is of a purging facultie, and that by the ftoole, in Rich fort as it is not much 
troublefome tomans nature, hauingwithallaccrraine binding qualitie, which it leaueth after the 
purging. 
51 The Vertues. 
It voideth forth flegmaticke and cholericke humors, alfbgroITe and melancholike, if it be hel- 
ped with fomething tending to that end. 
It is a Angular purging medicine in many difeafes, fit for all ages and kindes. 
It purgeth without violence or hurt, efpecially if it be tempered with Anifefeed or other like 
fweetfmellingthingsadded,orwithgent!epurgers or lenitiue medicines. Itmaybe giuen in 
ponder, but commonly the infufion thereof isvfed, 
Th§ 
