Lib. 3. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 1^25 
They are vfed in broths in (lead of Veriuice, which maketh the broth not onely pledfanttothe B 
tafte, but is greatly profitable to fuch as are troubled with a hot burning ague. 
They are diuerfly eaten, but howfoeuer they be eaten they alwaies ingender raw and cold blond: C 
they nourifh nothing or very little: they alfo ftay the belly, and ftench bleedings. 
They (top the menfes, or monethly (ickenes, except they happen to be taken into a cold fto- D 
mack, then do they not helpe,but rather clog or trouble the fame by fome manner of flix. 
The ripe berries, as they are Tweeter, fodoe they alfo little or nothing binde,and are fomethincr g 
hot, and yeeld a little more nourifhment than thofe thatbe not ripe, and the fame not crude or raw? 
but thefe arc feldome eaten or vfed as fauce. 
The iu ice of the greene Goofeberries coolcth all inflammations, Eryjipel.es, and Saint Antho- F 
nies fire. 
They prouokeappetite,and coole the vehement heate of the ftomackeand liner G 
The young and tenddr leaues eaten raw in a fallad, prouoke vrine, and driue forth the ftone H 
and grauell. 
Chap. zy Of barberries. 
ThcKindcs. 
Theredediuers forts of Barberries, fome greater, others Ie(fer,and fome without (Tones. 
Spina acida, fine Oxyacantha. 
The Barberry buflr. 
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•Jl The Definition. 
'T’He Barberry plant is an high fhruborbufh, 
-*• hauina many young ftraight fhootes and 
branches, my full of white and prickly thornes; 
the rinde whereof is fmooth and thin, the wood 
it felfe yellow : the leaues are long, very greene, 
(lightly nicked about the edges, and of a fowre 
tafte : the floures be yellow, (landing in clu- 
tters vpon long ftemmes : in their places come 
vplong berries, (lender, red when they be ripe, 
with a little hard kernell or ftone within - of a 
fowre and fharpe tafte : the root is yellow, dif- 
perfethit felfe farre abroad, and is of aivooddy 
fubftance. 
Wee haue in our London gardens another 
fort, whofe fruite is like in forme and fubftance, 
but one berry is as bigas three of the common 
kinde, wherein confifteth the difference. 
We haue likewife another withoutany ftone, 
the fruite is like the reft of the Barberries, both 
in fubftance and tafte. 
*[ The Place. 
The Barberric bufh groweth of it felfe invn- 
toiled places and defart grounds, in woods, and 
the borders of fields, efpecially about a Gentle- 
mans houfe called ML 1 '. Monke, dwelling in a vil- 
lage called Iuer, two miles from Colcbrooke, 
where mod of the hedges are nothing elle but 
Barberry bufhes. 
They are planred in gardens in mod places of England. 
% The Time. 
The leaues fpring forth in Aprill : the floures and fruite in September. 
U The Names. 
Galen calleth this thorne in Greeke, who maketh it to differ from inhisbooke 
of the Faculties of Ample medicines:but more plainely in His booke of the Faculties of Nourifh- 
mentsj where he rcckonethvp the tender fprings of Barberries among the tender (hoots that are 
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