Lib. j. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
floures moft part of Summer, andgrowesin many Heachie grounds, t 
8 Challice Heath hath alfo many wooddy branches growing from the roots,' (lender, of a red. 
difh brownc colour, a foot and a halfe high, garnilhed with very little leaues, Idler than thofe of 
Time : the floures grow on the tops and vpper parts of the branches, and be in number, fine, fix or 
moe, hanging downewards,in fafhion long, hollow within like a little tunnel) or open cup or chal- 
lice,ofa light purplifh colour : the root creepeth and putteth forth in diners places new fprings or 
fhoots. 
9 The Heath that bringeth forth berries hath many weake and (lender branches ofa reddifih 
colour,which trailing vpon the ground do take hold thereof in fundry places, whereby it mightily 
increafeth : the leaues are fomewhat broad, ofa thicke and flefhie (abidance, in tafte fomthingdry- 
fngatthefirft,butafterwardsfomewhat(harpeandbiting the tongue: among which come forth 
fmall floures of an herbie colour.-which being vaded there fucceed fmall round berries, that at the 
firftare greene,and afterward blacke, being as bigas thofeof Iuniper ; wherein is contained purple 
iuice like that of the Mulberry:within thofe berries are contained alfo fmall three cornered grains: 
the root is hard, and of a wooddy fubftancc. 1 1 found this growing in great plenty in York (hire on 
the tops of the hills by Gisbrough, between it and Rofemary-topin(a round hill focal led) and fome 
ofthepeople thereabouts told me they called the fruit Crakeberries. This is the fame that cJWVtf- 
thiolus calls Erica B,tccifera:and it is the EricaCirisftlio I i.of Clu[im 4. 
$ i o This which our Authour figured as you feee in the tenth placcfputting the defcription 
of the former thereto)hath brittle branches growing fome cubic high,couered with a barke blacker 
than the reft: the leaues are like thofe of the former, but blacker and fmaller, growing about _the 
ftalks by threes, of a hottifh tafte with fome aftriflion.In September and October it carries a fruit 
on the tops of the branches different from the reft,for it is very beautifull,white,tranfparent,refem- 
blina dusky and vneiten pearles in forme and colour,fucculent alfo, and ofanacide tafte, commonly 
containing three little feeds in each berry : in Nouembcr this fruit becomes dry, and falls away ot 
itfelfe. Clufiiu onely obferued thisinPortugalhandatthefirft fight a farotftooke the white bet- 
ries tohanebeengraines of Manna. Hecalls it Eric a Cor is folio, io. 
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rames or iviauuct.r\cA.ciii3 j'- — --- ■ 
(faith Dodmtus) chat I obferued another Heath which grew low, yet fenc tortli 
