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Spaine, Italy, or any hot Region. This tree is garnifhed with many largebranches befetwit/i 
leaues like the Peare tree, or rather like the Aller leafe,of a darke greene colour aboue and of a 
white colour vnderneath : among thefe leaues come forth tufts of white floures, very like vnto the 
Hawthorne floures, but bigger : after which fucceed fmall red berries, like the berries of the Haw 
thorne,and in tafte like the Neapolitan Medlar : the temperature and faculties whereofare notyec 
I Oxyacanlhus . 
The Haw-thorne tree. 
yVuA 'dla^-S ‘ 
2 AriaThcophraJli. 
Cumberland Haw-thorne, 
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The Haw-thorne groweth in woods and in hedges neere vnto high-waiesalmofteuery where 1 
The fecond is a ftranger in England. The laft groweth at Glaftenbury Abbey, as it is credibly re- 
ported vnto me. t The Aria groweth vpon Hampfted heath, and in many places of the Weft of 
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The firft and fecond fioure in May ; whereupon many do call the tree it felfe the May-bufh as a 
chiefe token of the comming in of May : the leaues come forth a little fboner : the fruit is ripe in 
the beginning of September, and is a food for birds in Winter. r 
The Names, 
. delcribeth . thisflmib,andnamethit^«W«, in the foemininc- gender .-and Galen in 
his booke of the Faculties of Ample medicines, ’ofi.sBi.5Bt, in the malculine gender : Oxyacanthus, 
faith he, is a tree, and is like to the wilde Peare tree in forme, and the vertues not vnlike,&c, Of 
Oxyacantha, Diofcoridcs writeth thus: It is a treelike to the wild Peare tree, very full of thorns, &c. 
Serapio calleth it i_ Amy her is : and fome, faith Diofcorides^ would haue it called n«>n«, but the name 
Pyrirn feemeth to belong to the yellow Haw-thorne : it is called in high-Dutch, JSaottDoiCti; in 
low-Dutch, J|agcDO.tEtl t in Italian, Bagaia : in Spaniih, Pirlitero : in French, Aub-efpine : in Eng- 
Iifh,White-thorne, Haw-thorne tree ; and of fome Londoners, May-buih. f This is not the Oxy- 
acantha of the Greekes, but thatwhich is called Pyracantba, as (ball be fhewed hereafter. 
The fecond is thought to be the o 4 rid of Theopbrajlus, and fo Lobel and Tabernanmtamis call it/ 
Some, as Bcllomus, Gcfier, and Clafius, refer it to the Sorbus, and that not vnfitly : in fome places of 
this ktngdome they call ita white Bearac tree. $ 
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