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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
Lib. y 
manifeft, that the fecond Sauine is not Thy a, neither Viu arbor, fo called of the later Herbarifts ; 
it is likewise named by Lobcl, Sabina genuina baccifera , atrocartilea, that is, the true Sauine that, bea- 
reth berries of a blackilh blew colour. 
• The Temperature. 
The leaues of Sauine, which are mod vfed in medicine, are hot and dry in the third degree, and 
Of fubtill parts, as Galen faith. 
TheVertues. 
The leauesof Sauin boyled in Wine and drunke prouoke vrine, bring downe the menfes with 
force, draw away the after-birth, expell the dead chilae, and kill the quickc: it hath the like ver. 
tuereceiuedvnder in a perfume. 
T he leaues (lamped with honey and applied, cure vlcers,ftay fpreading and creeping vlcers, 
fcoure and take away all fpots and freckles from the face or body ofman or woman. 
The leaues boyled in oyleOliue, and kept therein, kill the wormes in children, if you anoint 
their bellies therewith : and the leaues poudered and giuen in milke or Mufcadell do the fame. 
The leaues dried and beate into fine ponder, and (hewed vpon thofe kindes of excrefcences fub 
praputio, called Caroles, and fuch like, gotten by dealing with vneleane women, take them away 
perfeftly, curing and healing them : but if they be inueterate and old, and haue been much tampe- 
red withall, it (hall be necefiarie to adde vnto the fame a fmall quantitie of Auripigmentum in fine 
ponder, and vfe it with diferetion, becaufe the force of the medicine is greatly increafed thereby 
and made more corrofiue. 
Chap. 51. Of famarts^e. 
i Tamar! feus Narbonenfisl 
French Tamariskt. 
IdcMA-i oltuAj CaJlJ! uco-j . 
2 T amari feus Germanical 
Gtfrmane Tamariske. 
