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Of the Hiftory of Plants.- L 1 b. 3 
The Venues. 
They take away the heate of burning agues, and alfo the drought, they quench the furious heate 
ofcholer, they flay vomiting, reftore an appetite to meate which was loflby reafonof cholericke 
and corrupt humors, and are good againft the peftilentdifeafes. 
B The iuice of thefe alfo is boy led till it be thicke,with fugar added that it may be kept, which is 
good for all things that the berri es are, yea a nd far better. 
f I hauebroi^ht 'his Chapter and the next following from 'he place they formerly held, and fcated them heie amongft the ten of their kindred. 
ofthewilde Auens. After commcth the fruit, greene at thefir(l,afrerye!!ow,and the (ides next 
the Sun red when they be ripe ; informealmoftlikevntoa little heart, made as it wereoftwo, but 
is no more but one, open aboue,and clofed together in the bottom, of a harfh or fharpe tafte,where. 
in is contained three or foure little white feeds. 
f The Place. 
This plant groweth naturally vpon the tops of two high mountainesfamong the moffie places) 
one in Yorkfhire called Ingleborough, the other in Lancafhire called Pend >e, two of the higheft 
mountaines in all England, where the clouds are lower than the tops of the fameall Winter long, 
whereupon the people of the countrey haue called them C loud-berries, found there by a curious 
gentleman in the knowledge of plants, called M '.Hcskcth, often remembred. 
«[ The Time. 
The leaues fpring vp in May, at which time it floureth: the fruit is ripe in Iuly. 
^ The Temperature. 
The fruit is cold and dry, and very aftringent. 
ThcVertucs. 
The fruit quencheth thirft,cooIeth the ftomacke,andallayeth inflammations, being eaten as 
Worts are, or the dec off ion made and drunke. 
■f Mv friend M ."Pimble of Marihone reeeined a Diant hereof out of Lancafhire r and hr the fliaoc of rhelea r eT rnntd nor iuAop it to differ from the /'barnxmf/iu 
T His kind of Sefely, being the ./Ethiopian Sefely,hath blackifh ftalksofa wooddy fubftance : 
this plant diuideth it felfe into fundry other armes or branches, which are befet with thicke 
fat and oileous leaues, fafhioncd fomewhat.like the Wood-binde leaues, but thicker, and 
C h a p, 73. Of Qloud'berry . 
Vaccinia Nulls. 
Cloud-berries. 
ThcDcfcriftion. 
vnder the vpper cruft of the earth, 
and alfo the mo(fe,like vnto Couch-grafte, 
ofanouervvorn reddifh colour, fet here and 
there with fmal tufts of hairy ltrings :from 
which rilevp two fmall ftaiks,bard, tough. 
T He Cloud-berrie hath many fmal! 
threddy roots, creeping farre abroad 
He Cloud-berrie hath many fmal! 
threddy roots, creeping farre abroad 
vnder the vpper cruft of the earth. 
lUUgU, 
and ofa wooJdy fubftance fneuer more nor 
lefle) on which Joe ftand the leaues like 
thofe of the wilde Mallow, and of the fame 
colour, full of.fmall nerues or finevves run- 
ning in each part of the fame : between the 
leaues commerh vp a ftalke likewife of a 
wooddy fubftance, whereon doth grow a 
fmall floure conftftingof fine leaues, of an 
herby or yellow fh green colour like thofe 
fmall floure conftftin; 
Chap. 7 6 . Of fhrub Hearth ort of /Ethiopia , 
€[ The Defection. 
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