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The Theater of '‘Plants. Chap. 11. 
of this Land : the fiftandfixt were found by Doffor Boelius, (often remembred both in my former and this 
worke)in Tarbarj and brought tous: thefeventh was alfo found by him in Spaine and Portugal! ■ the eight in 
many Countries of this Land, both in fields and elfe where, and will bee alfo found as a weede in gardens to be 
pulled out: the ninth in Candy, and the laid groweth about Drajtonntere Portfmouth, 
'The Time, 
They flower in Summer, yet l'orne later than others of their kinde,' 
The Namei. 
They are called Convolvuli & Volubiles, quia crebra revolution vicinosfrutices or herb at implied , ^luflus calleth 
the firll Convolvulus Alth*.efclio,not knowing to what plant of the ancients it might be referred, unlefle it might 
be the lafione of Plinje, whercofhe maketh mentionin theja. chap, of his22. booke. Gerard much miftooke 
this plant, calling it Papaver coniculatum minus, but his correder hath amended it: The fecond is called Convol- 
vulus Pi Tolubilis minor by mold writers, yetfome Smilax Uvis minor as Dodonaus- and Helxine (fiffampelos as 
Matthiolus & fomc others,and taken to be the Scammonea tenuis of Pliny, the third is thought by CaftorDurantes 
to be CantabricaTlinii, and Clujius faith the fame likewife: of Cortufus called Scammonea Patavina,oi Guilandi- 
nus Helxine flans, of Tabermont anus Sc ammonium minus, and of Label as it is in the title: the fourth, fift, fixt, 
andfeaventh.havetheirtitlesintheirforeheades.asmuchasisneceifarytobefaydofthem: the eight is thought 
of many to be the Helxine of Dio/corides, which was called alfo Cijfampe/os, in Greeke b£ln ab innw 
traherevelharere : & tsai-t*. jrii©- quaflvitealu five Hedera Fiticea , becaufc this Helxine (hould be knowne to 
differ from Parietaria, called Helxine alfo, this molt commonly growing in Vineyards, creeping up upon the 
Vines, with a leafe like Ivie : Democritus in geoponicis calleth it OMalacociffos, quajimollis hedera : Lobel calleth 
it Cijfampelos’altera atriplicis ejfloie: Dodonaus calleth it Helxine Ciffampelos £r Convolvulus nifer-. Tragus ta- 
kethittobe Orobanche of Theophraflus, which Gar.atxmf\at.et\\Ervangia-. of Thalius in Harcjma flylva, Volubilis 
media fivenigra.Cordus onDiofcoridestakcth'utobeElatine, Angullara tobee Centuncutus plinii, and Fabius 
Cotumna calleth it Poljgonum Hederaceum: the ninth is fo called by Pona jn his Italian Baldus, as it is in the title: 
the laft is not fpoken of by any before. 
The Vertltes. 
They are all of the nature of the other fmall Bindeweedes no doubt, which is to move the belly: yet Cluflus 
faith the firft is ufed in Portugall, as an hearbeof Angular effefttoheale all fores or wounds; Cijfampelos, is faid 
likewife to purge the body ftr.ongly, ifeither thejuyee, or the leaves, ahd herbe in powder,’be drunke in wine 
or other drinkc. The leaves being bruifed and layd on hard tumors or knots in the flefh, difl'olveth and confir¬ 
med! them. 
Chap. XI, 
Smilax ajpera. Pricklye Bindweede, 
>| Here are two forts of this Bindweede, differing very notably both in leafe andfruite, asyoufhail 
! heare by and by: but there is another plant referred unto them, which is the Sarfaparilla, that is 
| brought from the Weft Indies, which I muft adjoyne, and fpeake of it alfo here. 
i. Smilaxajperafrutturubro. Prickly Bindweede with red berries. 
This Bindweede groweth up with many branches, wherewith it windeth about trees, and other 
tilings, fet with many crooked prickes or thornes like a bramble, all the whole length,bending this way and that, 
in a feemely proportion; for at every joynt itbendeth orboweth itfelfe, firft one way and then another, having 
fomewhatabroad andlongleafe thereat, Handing Upon a long foote ftalke, and is broad at thebottome, with 
two forked round ends, and then growfeth narrower unto the point i the middle ribbe on the backefide of mod 
of them, having many fmall thornes or prickes, and alfo about the edges; the loweft being the largcfl and 
growing fmaller up to the toppe, fmooth and of a faire greene colour, and fometime fported with white fpets; 
at the joynts with the leaves alfo, come forth clafping tendrels, like as the Vine hath,whereby it windes it lelfe; 
the flowers ftand at the toppes of the branches, at three or foure joynts, many breaking forth together in a clu- 
ftre, which are white, compofed of fixe leaves a peece, ftarre fafhion and fwcete in fent, after which come the 
fruits, which are red berryes when they are ripe, ofthe bignefle of eaLfparagus berryes or fmall Grapes, and in 
fome leffer; wherein are conteined fometime two or three hard blackc ftones, like alfo unto thofe of Ajparagtw, 
the roote is (lender white and long, in hard dry grounds, not fpreading farre, burin the loofer and moyfter pla¬ 
ces, running downe into the ground a pretty way, with diverfe knots and joynts thereat,and fundty long rooter 
running from thence. 
2. SmilaxafperafruSlunigro. Prickly Bindweede with blackeberryes. 
. This ot ^ cr prickly Bindeweedc, is like the former for the manner of growing in all points, his branches being 
joynted inlike manner, with thornes on them, but nothing fo many, diming as the former: the leaves are fome- 
wliat like it, but not having thofe forked ends at the bottome of every leafe like it, but almoft wholly round and 
broad at the bottome, of a darker greene colour alfo, and without any,or very feldome with any thornes or 
prickes, either on thebacke or edges of the leaves, with tendrells like a Vine alfo: the flowers come forth in the 
fame manner and are ftarre fafhion, confiding offixe leaves a peece like the other, but they are not white as they 
arc, but of an incarnate or blufh colour, with a round red umbonc in the middle of every one, which is the be * 
ginning ofthe berry, that when it is ripe, will be blackc and not red, being more fappie or flefhie than the other, 
with ftones or kernclls within them like unto it: the rootes hereof are bigger and fuller thin the former for the 
moft part, and fpreading further under the ground. 
5. Smilax ajpera Teruana. Sarfaparilla of America. 
The: Sarfaparilla that cometh from America into Spaine, and from thence info other Countries, hath beenc 
feenefrefh, even the whole plant as it hath beene brought from Spaine to the Duke of Florence, Lucas Ghinas 
his Phyfitian, being by as a witneffe, that in all thingsic did refemble the prickdy Bindweede, and differed iri 
0*3 nothing 
