A 
B 
Of theHiftory of Plants. 
The greater is called in Latine Salixperticalis , common W ithy, Willow, and Sallow, efpeciab 
ly that which being often lopped fendeth out from one head many boughs : the kinde hereof with 
the red barke is called of T hecp hr afl us, blacbe Withy ■ and the other, white : Pliny calleth the black 
Grata, or Greeke Withie (the red, being the Greeke Withy, faith he, is eafie to be cleft) and the 
whiter , Antenna. 
Tbeophraftiu writeth, that the Arcadians do call the leffer -aw, not ’in. , pliny alfonameth this 
Heltce : both of them do make this tob cSalicis tcrtiajjtecies, the third kinde of Sallow : the fame is 
likevvife called in Latine, Salixpumila,Salix •vimindu, Gallica Salix ; and by Colume//a,Satina, which 
lie faith that many do terme nmcrina irfhigh-Durch ) it.lej.’n BOcphetl : in low- Dutch. 
in Englifli, Ofier, fmall Withy, Twig Withy : Petrus Crcjccnttus nameth it Vinciis. 
The Temperature. 
The leaues,floLires, feed, and barke ofWillowes are cold and dry in the fecond degree, and a- 
ftringent. 
•I The Vcrtucs. 
The leaues and barke of Withy or Willovves do ftay the fpitting of bloud, and all other fluxes 
of b loud whatfoeuer in manor woman, if the faid leaucS and barke be boiled in wine and drunke. 
The greene boughes with the leaues may very well be brought into chambers and fet about the 
beds of thole that be fickeoffeuers,for they do mightily coole the heateofthe aire, which thing 
is a wonderfull refrefhing to the ficke Patients. 
The barke hath like vertues -.Diefcorides writeth, that this being burnt toafhes,and fteeped in 
vineger, takes away cornes and other like rifings in the feet and toes : diners, faith Galen , doe flit 
the barke whileft the Withy is in flouring, and gather a certain iuice, with which they vfe to take 
awaythings that hinder the fight, and this is when they are conftrained to vfe a clenfing medicine 
of thin and fubtill parts. 
hap. 5 6. Of the Ollue Tree. 
I oleafativa. 
The manured Oliue tree. 
2 Oleafyluejlris. ‘ 
The wilde Oliue tree. 
