J4£ 0 Of the Hiftoric of Plants. Li B.3. 
p The duft or dovvne, faith Ga/w,that lieth on the leaues of the tree is to be taken heed of, for if 
' it be drawne in with the breath, it is offenfiue to the winde-pipe by his extreme drineffe,and ma- 
king the fame rough, and hurting the voice, as it doth alio the fight and hearing, if it fall into the 
eyes or eares. Diofcoridcs doth not attribute this to the duft or dovvne of the leaues onely, but alfo 
to that of the balls. 
Chap. 12,1. Of the JVay faring Tree. 
Lm*nu,fi<te Viburnum. 
r . The Wayftirinztree. 
I lb lA/Vl-'lAAATv 
ThcDcftription , 
T He Wayfaring mans tree growes vp J to the 
heigh t of an hedge tree, ot a mean bignes ; 
the trunke or body thereof is couered with a 
ruifet barke ; the branches are long, tough, and 
ea fie to be bowed, and hard to be broken, as are 
thofe of the Willow, couered with a foft whi- 
tifli barke, whereon are broad leaues thicke and 
rough, fleightly indented about the edges, of a 
white colour, and iomewhat hairy whileft they 
be frefhand green ; but when they begin towi- 
ther and fall away, they arereddiih,and fet to- 
gether by couples one oppofit to another. The 
floures are white, and grow in clufters : after 
which come clufters of fruit of the bigneffe ofa 
peafe, fomewhat flat on both fides, at the hrft 
greene, after red, and blacke when they be ripe : 
the root dilperfeth it felfe far abroad vnder the 
vpper cruft of theearth. 
^1 7 he Place. 
This tree groweth in moll hedges in rough 
and ftony places, vponhils and low woods, efpe- 
dally in the chalky grounds of Kent about 
Cobham, Southfleet, and Grauefend,and in ail 
the trad to Canturbury. 
5 TheTime. 
The floures appeare in Sommer : the berries 
ate ripe in the end of Autumne, and new leaues 
come forth in the Spring. 
This hedge tree is cMtA Viurnao^ Rnellitts : in French, Viorne, and Viorna: in Italian, Lantam : 
it is reputed for the tree Viburnum, of which Virgil maketh mention in the firft Eclog, where hee 
commendeth the city Rome for the loftineffe and ftatelinefle thereof, aboue other Cities, faying, 
that as the tall Cypres trees dofhew themfelues aboue the low and fhrubby V lorn, fb doth Rome 
aboue other cities lift vp her head very high ; in thefe verfes : 
Vertw h&c t ant um alias inter cuput exitlit vrbes, 
Quantum lentafolent inter viburna cuprejsi. 
But this all other cities foexcels, 
As CyprefTe, which ’mongft bending Viornes dwels, 
J I iu Jge Viburnum not to be a name to any particular plant, butagenerall nametoall low 
and bending fhrubs ; amongft which this here deferibed may take place as one. I enquired of a 
countrey man in Eifex, if he knew any name of this : he anfwered,itwas called the Cotton tree,by 
reafon of the foftndfe of the leaues. $ 
The Temperature. 
The leaues and berries of Lantanaare cold and dry, and of a binding qualitie. 
