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\The Defcription. 
CPurge Laurell is a fhrub of a cubit high, oftentimes alfo of two, and fpreadeth with many little 
‘-'boughes, which are tough and lithy, and couered with a thicke rinde. The Ieaues be Jong broad 
gro(re,fmooth,blackilh greene, fhining,like the Ieaues of Laurell, but lefler, thicker, and without 
imell, very many at the top,cluftering together. The floures be long, hollow, of a whitifh a ree ne, 
hanging beneath and among the Ieaues : the berries when they be ripe are blacke, with a hard kcrl 
nell vvithin,which is a little longer than the feed of Hempe : the pulpe or inner fubftance is wh ire- 
the root wooddie,tough,long,and diuerfly parted.growing deepe : the Ieaues, fruit and barke as wei 
ofthe root as of the little boughes,doe with their fharpnelfe and burning qlralitic bite and fet on 
fire the tongue and throat. 
The Place. 
It is found on mountaines,in vntilled, rough, fhadowie, and wooddie places,as by the Take o f Lo- 
zannaorGeneua,and in many places neerethe riuer of Rhenc and of the Maze, t Itgrowes abun- 
dantly alfo in the woods in the moft parts of England. ^ 
^ The Time. 
The floures bud very foon,a little after the Autume Equino&ialhthey are full blown in Winter 
or in the firft Spring: the fruit is ripe in May and lune: the plant is ahvaies greene, and indureth 
the cold ftormes oi winter. 
•J T he Names. 
. It called in Greeke***«vfe, ofthe likenefleit hathwith the Ieaues of the Laurell or Bay tree* 
m Latine hkewije Daphnoides : the later Latinifls for the fame caufe name it Laureola, as though 
they mould lay Minor Laurwpt little Laurell.it is called ard notwichftandincr there 
as another Chamadaphnc^nd another Peplton. This fhrub is commonly called in Englifh, Spurge 
Laurelhot diuers,Laurell or Lowry. ° 1 & 
Somefay that the Italians name the berries hereof or Mountainc Pepper as 
lanr the bernCS Dutcl1 Mezereon : others affirms them to bee called in High Dutch alfo, 
It may be Theophraftttshh Cnecrcn ■ for it is much like to a Mirtle in Ieafc, it is alfo a branched 
plant, tough and pliable, hauing a deep root, without fmell,with a blacke fruit. 
•j The Temperature. 
It is like in temperature and facultie to the Germane Spurge Oliue, throughout the whole fob.’ 
stance biting and extreme hot. c 
% The Venues. 
The drie or greene Ieaues of Spurge Laurell, faith Diofcorides, purgeth by fiegc flegmaticke hu- A 
mors ; it procureth vomite and bringeth downe the menfes,and being chewed it dravveth water out 
ofthe head. 
It likevvife caufeth neezing ■ moreouer, fifteene graines of the feed thereofdrunke, are a pursa- E 
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The Description. 
1 O Ofe Bay is a frnall fhrub of a gallant fhew like the Bay tree, beairing Ieaues, thicker^ 
X\.§ rc ater,longer.and rougher than the Ieaues ofthe Almond tree.-the floures beofa faire 
red colour, diuided into flue Ieaues, not much vnlike alittlcRofe: the cod or fruit is 
long, like afelepias, orP tncetoxicum , and full of fuch white downe, among which the feed lieth hid- 
den: therootis long, fmooth, and wooddie. 
2 The lecond kinde of Rofe bay, is like the firft,8i differeth in that, that this plant hath white 
noures-but in other refpefis it is very like. 
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