L ! b* 3. Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 1395 
Some there be that would haue the berries to be called Vaccinia, and Vacttnitmt to he that' of 
which Vitruvius hath made mention in his feuenth booke of Archi tedUire or,, the arc of bn ildirn , 
chap. 14. of purple colours rafter the fame manner, faith he, they temper V actinium, and putting 
milke vnto it do make a gallant purple : in fuch breuitieof the old writers what can be ccuainelv 
determined. 
^ TheTempcr attire. 
The leaues and fruit ofPriuet are cold, dry, and aftringenr. 
<([ The Virtues. 
The leaues ofPriuet do cure the fwellings,apoftumations, and v leers of the mouth or throat, A 
being gargarifed with the iuyee or decoAion thereof, and therefore they be excellent good to be 
put into lotions, to wafh the lecret parts, and the fealdings with women.cankers and fores in chil- 
drens mouthes. 
Chap. 58. Of Mocke-Trimt. 
i Phtllyea angujiifolia. 2 P hilly ea latiarefelio. 
Narrow leauedMock-Priuet. ThebroaderleauedMock-Priuer, 
«[ The Dej'cription. 
1 Yprus is a kinde of Priuet,and is called phillyrea, which name all the forts or kindes 
^ , thereof do reraine, though for diftin ftions fake they paffe vnder fundry titles. This 
plant groweth like an hedge tree, fometimes as big as a Pomegranat tree, befet with 
flender twiggy boughes which are garni died with leaues growing by couples, very like the leaues 
of the Oliue tree, but broader, fofter, and of a greene colour : from the bofomes of thefe leaues 
come forth great btinches of final 1 white floures,of a plcafant (weetfmell : which being vaded, 
‘here fucceed clufters ofblacke berries very like the berries of the Alder tree. 
2 The fecond Cyprus, called aKo Phillyrealatifolia, is very like the formerin body, brioches, 
leaues, 
