Of theHiftory of Plants. 
tobeeatcn,fuchas Oxy acanthus or the Hawthorne bringethnot forth, wherein he plainely made a 
difference, Oxyacanthaihe Barbery bufh,and Oxy acanthus the Hawthorne tree. 
Diofcondes hath not made mention of this Thorne ; for that which he calleth Oxytcantha in the 
Foeminine gender, is Galens Oxy acanthus in the Mafculine gender. 
i_s4uicen feemeth to containe both thefe fhrubs vnder the name of t^fmyrberis, but we know they 
are neither of affinitie or neighbourhood, although they be both prickly. 
Thefhrubit felfe is called in fhops Barbaries, of the corrupted name t^imyrberis, ofthe later 
writers Crejpinus .- in Italian,CVf/^/w« in Spanifh, F-fpino de maiucUs ■ in high Dutch, ^atCfcIbCCt; 
in low Dutch, ^aufcbOOin : in French, v'mettc ■ and thereupon by a Latine name, Spiniuincta, 
Spina Midland Oxyacantha Galcnt. $ In Englifh, a Barbery bufh,or Piprige Tree,accordingto D 1 .’ 
Turner, t 
The leaues and berries of this thorne are cold and dry in the fecond degree : and as Galen alfo 
affirmethjthcy are of thin parts, and haue a certaine cutting qualitie. 
A The leaues are vfed of diuers to feafon meate with, and infleadof afallad,as be thofeof Sor- 
rell. 
B The decodtion thereof is good againft hot burnings and cholericke agues : it allaieth the hcate 
of the blond, and tempercth the ouermuch heate of the liner. 
C The fruite or berries are good for the fame things, and be alfo profitable for hot laskes. and for 
the bloudy flixe,and they flay all manner of fuperfluous bleedings. 
D The greene leaues of the Barbery bufh ftamped, and madeintofawce,asthatmadeof Sorrell, 
called greene fauce, doth coole hot flomackes, and thofe that are vexed with hot burning agues’ 
and procureth appetite. 
E The conferee made ofthe fruite and fugar performeth all thofe things before remembred but 
with better force and fucceffe. 
F The roots of the tree fteeped for certaine daies together in flrong lie, made with afhes of the 
aflvtree,and the hatre often moiltned therewith, maketh it yellow. 
G $ The barke of the roots is alfo vfed in medicines for the iaundife, and that with good fuc- 
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"'I'" Here be two forts ofthe white Thorn Trees deferibed ofthe later writers, one very common in 
molt parts of England : there is another very rare, and not found in Europe, except in fome 
few rare gardens of Germanic ; which differeth not from our common Hawtborne,lauing that the 
tint hereof is as yellow as Saffron--. We haue in the Weft of England one growing at a place called 
G altenburie, which bringeth forth, his flourcs about Chriflmas, by the report of diners of good 
credit, who haue fecn the fame ; but my felfe haue not feen it ; and therefore leauc it to bebetter 
T He white Thorne is a great fhrub growing oftentimes to the height of the Peare- tree 
the trunkc or body is great : the boughes and branches hard and wooddy,fet full of 
long fharpe thornes : the leaues be broadmr wirh rWnp o-afkpc inm r1ll!/src Oz 
The Temperature. 
f rhe Vert ties . 
C-Hfl p. 2.4. Of the ivbitc Thorne, or Hawthorne Tree. 
^1 The Kindcs. 
The Defcription. 
Spaine, 
