Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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The Place. 
Buck-thorne grovvcthnccrc the borders of fields, in hedges, woods, and in other vntoiJed places- 
it delighteth to grow in riuers and in water ditches : it groweth in Kent in fnndry places as at Far- 
ningham vpon the cony bnrrowes belonging fometimeto M'.S*W,as alfovpon cony burrowes in 
Southfleet,efpeciaIly in a fmall and narrow lane leading from the honfe of M r . William Stvan\nto 
Longfield downcs, alfo in the hedge vpon the right hand ac Hartford townes end towards London 
and in many places more vpon the chalkie bankes and hedges. 
The Time. 
It floureth in May, the berries be ripe in the fall of the leafe. 
The Names. 
The later Herbarifts call it in Latine Rhtmnusfolutiwts, becaufe it is fet with thornes like as the 
Ram, and beareth purging berries. CMatthiolus namethit Sfina in fettona ^Valerius Cordus Spma Cent i 
and diuers call it Burgifrna. It is termed in high Dutch, CteUfebeet tofttljtlOin : m Italian Spine 
CUerlt,Spino Zcrhno,Spmo Ceruino in Engliih, Laxatiue Ram, Way-thorne, and Buck-thorne • in 
low Dutch they call the fruit or berries IRlRinbett'ctJ, that is, as though you fhould fay in Latine 
Bacca Rhenana: in Englifli,Rheinberries : iaVrtnch,Nerprun. 1 ’ 
% The Temperature. 
The berries ofthis Thorne, as they be in tafie bitter and binding, fobe they alfo hot and dry in 
thelecond degree. 3 
IT Vert ues. 
A The fame do purge and void by the ftoole thicke flegme, and alfo cholericke humors : they are 
giucn being beaten intopouder from one dram to a dram and a halfe:diners do nuiflbcr the berries 
who giue to ftrong bodies from fifteene to twenty or moe ; but it is better to breake them and boile’ 
them m fat flefh broth without falt,and to giue the broth to drinke : for fo they puraewith leiTer 
trouble and fewer gripings. 1 1 b 
B There is preifed forth of the ripe berries a iuice, which being boyled with a little Allum is vfed 
of painters for a deep greene, which they do call Sap greene. 
C rhe berries which be asyet vnripe,being dried and infufed or fieeped inwater, do makeafaire 
yellow colourjbut if they be ripethey makcagreene. 
C h a p. 3 1. Of the Holme 3 Holly,or Hulucr tree . 
Agrifolium. 
The Holly tree. 
The Description. 
*^w**v*g I'liu k'acis-rva 111 wi juium mi Hiuniij 
which doth alfo finkeinthewater,as doth the 
Indianwood which is called Gucuacttm : the 
leaues are of abeautifull green colour, fmooth 
and glib, like almoft the bay leaues, but leiTer, 
and cornered in the edges with fharp prickles, 
which notwithftanding they want or hauefew 
when the tree is old: the floures be white, and 
fvveet of fmelhthc berries are round, of the big- 
neiTeofalittlePeafe,ornotmuch greater, of 
colour red,of tail vnpleafant,with a white ftone 
in the midil, which do not eafily fall attfay, but 
hangon theboughesalongtime: the root is 
wooddie. 
T He Holly is a flmibbie plant, notvvithftan- 
ding it oftentimes growes to a treeofa rea- 
fonable bigneiTe : the boughes whereof are 
tough and flexible, couered with a fmooth and 
green bark. The fub fiance of the wood is hard 
and found, andblackifh or yellowifh within. 
ding it oftentimes growes to a treeofa rea- 
colour red,of tail vnpleafant,with a white ftone 
There is made of the fmooth barke of this 
treeor fhrub, Birdlime, which thebirders and 
countrymen dovfeto takebirdswirluthey pul 
off the barke, and make a ditch in the ground, 
fpecially in moift, boggy, or foggy earth, wher- 
intothey put this bark,couering theditch with 
boughes of trees,Ietting it remaine there till it 
be rotten and putrified, which will be done in 
the 
