I^s 6 Of the Hiltorie of Plants. L ! 3.3. 
5| Tht Temperature. 
Head) hath, as Galen faith,a digefting facultie, consuming by vapors : the fioures and leaues arc 
ro be vfed. 
5 | TheVertue;.. •> ' . ■ 
/j, The tender tops and fioures, faith Dhfeeridtsjat good to be laid vpon the biting ; ar d [kln/Lrni 
of any venomous beaft: of thefe fioures the Bees do gather bad hony. ~ ° ° 
5 The barke and leaues of Heath may be vfed for, and in the fame caufes that Tamariske is vfed. 
f The figure whick our Author ®auc ia the ninth place by the name of Etiahs:cifets Utiftlu I take to be the t'.ua Idtu i.ef 
his JnepUce) aadin ftcad thereof 1 haue giuen you out ordinaiy bcr.y. bearing Heath* 
(which -:u. ih finde 
Chap. 53. Of Heath of lerico. 
I Rofa Hifricoifteamaior. 
The Heath Rofe of lerico. 51 ThcDefiriptio*. 
JLcfdRkric'ontU (teat a. 
1 . TTHis kinde of Heath which of the Ia- 
* _ ter writers hath been called by the 
name Hofa Htertcomea^xhc. coiner fpoiled the# 
name in the mint, for of all plants that baue bin 
written of, there is not any more vnlike vnto the 
Rofe, or any kinde thereof than this planrwhat ' 
'moued them thereto I knownot-.but thus much 
of my owne knowledge, it hath neither finape, 
nature, nor facultie agreeing with any Roie • 
thewhich ddubtlelfe is a kinde of Heath, as the 
barren foiie, and that among Heafh.doth stri- 
dently ihew, as alfo the Heathie matter where- ' 
with the whole plant is polIeiTcd,agtecing with 
the kindes of Heath in very notable points. It 
rifech vpout of the ground, of the height of four 
inches, or an hand breadth, coinpaft or made 
. of fundry hard ftickes, (which are the ftalkes) 
clafpmg or Ihutting it feife together info 3 
round forme, intricately iveauing it feife one 
ftteke ouerthwait another, like a little ne t.-vpon 
which wooddy ftickes do grow leaus not vnlike 
to thofe of the Oliue tree, which maketh the 
whole plant ofa round forme, and hollow with- 
in; among the leaues on the in fide grow final) : 
molfie fioures, of a whicifii herbie colour.which 
The Heath Rofe of lerico dried 
turne 
