j- 3 Rhtmntts foluttvus pumiluu 
Dwarfe Buck-thorne. 
greene colour : the root is vvooddie as in other 
ihxwbs-.Clufius found this growing in rhemoun. 
tanous places of Auftria, and calls it Sfinainfe. 
tloria fumitd. 
3 This other hath branches fome cubite 
long, and of the thicknelfe of ones little finger, 
orleffer, coueredwicha blackeand fhriuelled 
barker and towards the top diuided into little 
boughs, which are couered with a thin & fmoo- 
ther barke,and commonly end in a fharp thorn : 
the Ieauesmuchrefemble thofeofthe Slo-tree 
yet are they fhorter and lefTer, greene alfo, and 
fnipt about the edges ; firft of an aftringent,and 
afterwards of fomewhat a bitterifh tafte ; the 
floures which grow amongftthe lcauesare of 
an herby colour, and conftft of foure leaues ; the 
fruit is not much vnlike thatof the former; but 
diftinguifhed with two,&fomtimes with three 
crefts or dents, firft green, and then black when 
it is ripe : the root is thicke, wooddie and hard. 
Chi fun found this on the hill aboue the Bathes 
of Baden, hee calls it Spins infccionapumils 2 . 
This CWsttbiolus and others call Lycium Itsli- 
cum : and our Author formerly gaue the figure 
of Matthiolus and TabernsmontsnHs , by the name 
of Ljcium HiJJianictm , and here againe another 
forhis Rhamms folutivas, which tirade mee to 
keepe it in this chapter, and omititin the for- 
mer, it being deferibed in neither. $ 
Vuuiui Tic 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
+ 1 Rhsmnus folutivas, 
Buck-thorne 
1(J CcZt,ix 
% 2 Rhamnns folutivus minor. 
Middle Buck-thorne. 
