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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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j phillyrea [errata 2. Clufij, 
The fecond toothed Priuet of clujlus. 
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leaues, floures, and fruit; and the difference 
is this, chat the leaues of this plant are broa- 
der, but in facultie they are like. 
3 This kinde of Priuet rifeth vp like an 
hedgebufh, of the height of fiueor fix cu- 
bits: the branches are long,fragilc or brittle 
couered with awhitifli barke ; wheteon are 
fet leaues fomwhat broad, iagged on the ed- 
ges like the teeth of a (aw, and of a deep green 
colour: among which come forth the floures, 
which neither my Author nor my felfe haue 
feene : the berries grow vpon final 1 foot- 
ftalks, for the moft part three together, being 
round, and of the bigneffe of pepper graines, 
or Myrtle berries, of a blacke colour when 
they be ripe. 
«i The Place. 
Thefe plants do grow in Syria neere the 
city Afcalon,and were found by our induftri- 
ous Pena in the mountaines neere Narbone 
and Montpelier in France : the which I plan- 
ted in the garden at Barn-Elmes neere Lon- 
don, belonging to the right Honourable the 
EarleofEilex : I haue them growing in my 
garden likevvife. 
The Time. 
The leaues fhoot forth in the firft of the 
Spring : the floures fliew themfelues in May 
and Iune : the fruit is ripe in September. 
The Names. 
This Priuet is called in Greeke, JH 'JiOOfty and 
in Latine alfo Cyprus • and may be named in 
Englifh, Eafterlin Priuet, and Mocke-Priuet, for the reafon following : they are deceiued who 
taking Pliny for their Author, do thinke that it is Ligujlrum, or our Wellerne Priuet, aswee haue 
fhewed in the former chap, it is the Arabians Alcanna, or Henne : and it is alfo called of the Turks 
He nne euen at this prefent time. 
The Temperature. 
The leaues of thefe kindes of Priuet haue a binding qualitie,as Diofcoridcs writeth. 
The Venues. 
Being chewed in the mouth they healethevlcers thereof, and are a remedie againft inflamma- 
tions or hot fwellings. 
Thedecoftion thereofis good againft burnings and fealdings. 
The fame being ftamped and fteeped in the iuiceof Mullen and laid on, do make the haire red, 
as D iofeorides noteth . Edom us writeth, that not only the haire, but alfo the nether parts of mans 
body and nailes likewife are coloured and died herewith, which is counted an ornament among the 
Turks. 
The floures being moiftned in vineger and applied to the temples alfwageth head-ache. 
There is alfo made of thefe an oile called Oleum Cyprinumjwect of fmell,and good to heate and 
fupple the finewes. 
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Chap. 55?- Of baftard'Triitet. 
TheDefcription. 
I 'T'His fhrubby tree, called Macalth, or Mahaleh, is alfo one of the Priuets : it rifeth vp like 
A vntoa fmall hedge tree, nqt vnlike vnto the Damfon or Bullefle tree, hauing fpany vp- 
rightftalks and fpreading branches: whereon do grow leaues not vnlike thofe of the phil/yrea of 
Clufius defcription:amongft which come forth moflie floures of awhite colour, and ofapeMeA 
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