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Lib. 3. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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Cornu s feemina. 
The Dog-berry tree. 
C 0 S (Xsve ry lAA^eOLax^ 
greene at the firft, and ofa (Tuning black colour 
whenthey beripe,intafte vnpleafanc , andnot 
cared for of the birds. 
«|f The Place. 
This fhrub groweth in hedges and bullies in 
euery countrey of England. 
ThcTme. 
The ftoures come forth in the Spring in the 
monethof Aprill : the berries are ripe in Au- 
tumne. 
The Names. 
The Italians do commonly call it Sanguine, 
and S anguinello Petrus Crefccmius termes it San- 
guinus ; and CUatihidus, Virga fangutnea : Pliny, 
lib. 2 a,, cap. 10. hath written a little of Vtrga San- 
grnnea : Neither is Virga Sanguinea , faith hee, 
counted more happy , the inner barke whereof 
doth breake open the fcarres which they before 
haue healed. It is an hard thing, or peraduen- 
ture arafh part, to aftirme by thefc few words, 
that Pliny his Virga Sanguinea is the fame that 
the Italian Sanguino is. This is called in high- 
Dutch,I^attriCgel-' in low- Dutch, I©tH)eCoj=< 
noelle, that is to fay, Cor nut fylueflru , or wilde 
Cornell tree : and in French, Comc/licr fauuage : 
in Englifh, Hounds tree, Hounds berry, Dogs 
berry tree, Pricke-Timber : in the North coun- 
trey they call it Gatcn tree, or Gater tree ; the 
berries whereof leem to be thofe which Chaucer 
calleth Gater berries : Valerius Cerdus nameth 
it that is to fay, Fa! fa or Spuria Comm, 
falfe or ballard Cornell tree : this feemeth alfo to be Tbeophraftus his or Cornus faemina, fe- 
male Cornell tree. This hath little branches hauing pithwithin, neither be they hard nor found, 
like thofe of the male : the fruit is 'a*™, that is, not fit to be eaten, and a late fruit which is not 
ripe till after the Autumne Aiquino&iall ; and fuch is the wilde Cornell tree or Gater tree, the 
yona and tender branches whereof be red, and haue (as wee haue written) apith within : the fruit 
or berries be vnpleafant, and require a long time before they can be ripe. 
*y TheTemperature. 
Theberries hereofare ofvnlike parts; for they haue fome hot, bitter, and clenfing, and very 
many cold, dry, harfh, and binding, yet they haue no vfe in medicine. 
The Vertnes. 
Matthiolus writeth, that out of theberries firft boiled, and afterwards preffed, there iffueth an A 
oyle which the Anagman countrey people dovfe in lamps : but it is not certaine, nor very hke,that 
the barke of this wilde Cornell tree hath that operation which Pliny reporteth of Vtrga Sanguinea ; 
for he faith, as we haue already fet downe, that the inner barke thereof doth break and lay open the 
fears which they before haue healed. 
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HAP. 
Of Spindle tree or TrickpAvood. 
«|| The Defcription. 
1 TARickevvood is no high fhrub, of the bigncfTe of the Pomegranat tree : it fpreadeth farre 
M with his branches : the old ftalks haue their barke fomewhat white • the new and thofe 
that be lately growne be greene, and foure fquare*.the fubftanceof the wood is hard, 
and mixed with a light yellow : theleauesbe long, broad, (lender, and foft : the floures be white, 
many (landing vpon one foot-ftalke, likealmoft to a (poked rundle : the fruit is foure fquare,rcd, 
an d containing foure white feeds, euery one whereof is couered with a yellow coat, which being ta- 
ken off giueth a yellow die. „ . 
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