Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Li B.3. 
for befides this Scorfm of which he hath made mention, lib. 2 5 . cap. 5 . fetting dow ne T heephraftus 
his words, where he makcth Aconitum Thet-jphoncn to be Scorpitu, lib.z$. cap. 10. and likewife other 
plants vnder the fame title, but vnproperly. 
The T emperature and Vertuts. 
There is nothing written inTheophraflus concerning the faculties of Scorpius (pinefus, or Furze : 
A pij„y f eenle th to attribute vnto it the fame vertues that Scorpioides hath ; notwithlfanding the later 
Writers do agree that it is hot and dry of complexion : the feeds are vfed in medicines againft the 
ftone,andftay ing of the laske. 
+ Th : s chapter hath vnder°onc a gica: alteration : as thus; the firft, third, and fourth deferiptions belonged to the third figure : thefecond and fifth deferip- 
tion> to the fifth figure • and tfic firft, fccond, and fourth figures had no deferiptions belonging to them. The figure that tvas in the firft place isnow in the third r 
the fccond ftill hofds his place : the third is in the firft, belonging thereto of right .• and foi handfomnefle fake I hauc made the foutth and fifth charge pLccs-Tfiis 
Ntpa alfo in the fixch place was formerly mentioned by our Author (but now omitted) in tire chapter of Afparaguj. 
Chap. XI. 
Of Qammocke Fur^e } %eJl-Harrove > or Fetty Whinne. 
TheKindes. 
T Here be diners forts of Reft- Harrow, which fome haue inferred among the fmooth Broomes ; 
others, among thofe with prickles, whereof fome haue purple floures and likevv ife firi of pr ic- 
kles ; others, white floures. and iharpe thoines : fome alfo purple floures, others white,and alfo yel- 
low, and euery of them void of prickles . 
1 c^inenis, fine ReflaBouis. 
Cammocke,or Reft-Harrow. 
£Wl-i/ur P'zwWiJ'- 
r 
3 Antnis non (pinefa purpurea, 
"Purple Reft-Harrow without prickles. 
^7 The Defcription. 
% /’"''•AmmockeorgroundFurzerifethvp with ftalkes a cubit high, and often higher, fet 
V, with diners loynted branches, tough, pliable, and full of hard fharpe thornes : among 
which do grow leaues in forme like thofe of S Johns wort, or rather of the ten till, of a 
deepe 
