The Defcriflion. 
x T T^cwAiwgt^theblackeWortleor Hurtle, is abafeandlowfhrub or wooddy plant, 
\ bringing forth many branches ofa cubit high, let full of fmall leaucs of a dark grcenc 
coIour ; not much vnlike the leaues of Box or the Myrtle tree : amongif which come 
forth little hollow floures turning into fmall berries, greeneat the firft, afterward red, and at the 
laft ofa blacke colour, and full ofa pleafant and fweetiuyce : in which doe lie diuers little thinne 
whitifh feeds : thcfe berries do colour the montji and lips of thofe that eate them, with a black co- 
lour : the root is wooddy, (lender, and now and then creeping . 
2 Vaccinia rubra, or red Wort le, is like the former tn the manner of growing, but that the 
leaues are greater and harder, almoft like the leaues of the Box tree, abiding greeneall the Winter 
long : among which come forth fmall carnation floures, long and round, growing in clutters at the 
top of the branches : after which fucceed fmall berries, in (hew and bignefle like the former, but 
that they are of an excel lent red colour, and full of iuyce, of fo orient and beautifull a purple to 
limne withall, that Indian Lucca is not to be compared thereunto, efpecially when this iuyce is 
prepared and drefled with Allom according to art, as my felfe haue proued by experience : the tail 
is rough and aftringcnt: the root is ofa wooddy fubftance. 
3 Vaccinia alba , or the white Wortle, is likevnto the former, both inftalks and leaues, but the 
berries are ofa white colour, wherein confifteth the difference. 
$ The figure which our Author here giues in the third place hath need of abetter defcription, 
for 
Of thcHiftory of Plants. 
C h a p« 73. Of JVorts or JVortle berries* 
ThcKindes. 
r Actinia, or Worts, ofwhich we treat in this place^differ from Violets, neither are they ettee- 
med 
Writers. 
V Actinia, or Worts, ofwhich we treat in this placeidiffer from Violets, neither are they eftee- 
med for their floures but berries : of thefe WorMjherejde diuers forts found out by the later 
1 Vaccinia nigra. 
Blacke Worts or Wortle berries. 
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2 Vaccinia rubra. 
Red Worts or Wortle berries, 
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