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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L i b. 5. 
The Temperature. 
The fruit of the Haw-thorne tree is very aftringent. 
TheVcrtues. 
A The Hawes or berries of the Havv-thorne tree, as Diofimdes writeth, doboth flay the laske,the 
n men fcs, and all other fluxes of bloud : fome Authors write, that the ftones beaten to pouder, and 
giuen to drinke are good againft the ftone. 
C hap. 25. Of Cj oats Thorne . 
The Description. 
1 'T-'He firft Tragagantha or Goats-thorne hath many branchie boughes and twigs, flender 
1 and pliant^fo fpred abroad vpon euerie fide, that one plant doth fometimes occupies 
great fpace or roome in compaffe : the leaues arefmall,and in fhapelike Lentill leaues, whitilh, 
fnd fomevvhat moffie or hairy, fet in rowes one oppofite againft another : the floure is like the blof- 
fome oftheLentill, but much teller, and of a whitifh colour, and fometimes marked with purple 
lines or ftreaks : the feed is inclofed in fmall cods or husks, a'moft like veto the wilde Low or hor- 
ned Trefoile: the whole plant on euery fide is fet full offbarpeprickely thornes, hard, white, and 
{Irons : the roots run vnder the ground like Liquorice roots, yellow within, and blacke without, 
tou CT h, limmer,and hard to breake • which being wounded in fundry places with fome iron toole, 
andlaid in the Sunatthehigheftand hottefttimeofSommer,iiTuethforthacertain liquor, which 
being hardned by the Sun, is that gum which is called in Ihops Tragacantha : and of fome, though 
barbaroufly Dragagant. 
I Tragacantha, fiue Jpina Hit cl. 
Goats Thorne. 
2 Spina Bird minor . 
Small Goats Thorne. 
2 The fecond kinde of Tragacantha is a low and thicke fhrub,hauing many fhoots growing 
from one turfe:ofa white or grayifh colour, about a cubit high, ftiffe and wooddy : the leaues are 
like the former, and garded with moft ftiffe pricks not very fafely to be touched : among the thor- 
nie leaues come forth many floures in fmall tufts like GjniJlclla , but that they are white : the cods 
are 
