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but with a few, the elder boughes, having a whitifhbarke, and the younger greene, with foure browmlK lines i 
like lifts running all the length of them, which make them feeme foure fquare, the wood is fomewhat whitiih, , 
hard and yellow, it hath diverfe branches, whereon doe grow faire and darke greene long leaves,broadeft in the :l 
middle from among which come forth long ttalkes, whereon ftand foure or live white flowers, cluttering toge¬ 
ther confifting of foure leaves a peece, withfomethreds in the middle, after which come round hard hmkes ■; 
or red berries, divided into foure parts, in eadh whereoflieth a white hard feede, covered with a yellowskinne, 
which will give a yellow colour,it it be put into water: the rootes are many,not running deepe into the ground, 
but fpreading rather under the upper face thereof. 
a. Evonyrrtw TUrmonkus. The Spindle tree of Hun!trie. 
The Spindle tree of Hungary, hath diverfe gentle and pliant ftemmes, riling from the roote, which grow to be i 
three or foure foote high, and of the thicknetfe of ones thumbe, covered with a thicke greene barke, with many 
biacke fpots therein, divided into many other letter branches, fct in a feemely or comely order one above another, i 
about w hich grow many leaves, let oppofite one unto another, fomewhat likeunto the greater Mirtle leaves,? 
but more nemle in handling, lightly dented about the edges, of a drying tafte at the firtt, but after wardsti 
fomewhat bitter, and hot, from among the leaves at the j'oynts of them come forth fmall long ttalkes, with two? 
or diree flowers on each of them, conlifting of foure leaves apeece, of a Alining purphlh colour hanging downe; 
their heads, and with a fquare umbone in the middle, which grow into a foure Iquare head or berrie, like in 
forme unto the former, fomewhat fpongie or light, of a faire yellow colour on the outfide, wherein lie fhiningl 
round feede, blackc on the outfide, two or three lying in one cell or partition, which are very like unto the feede® 
of baftard Dittany. , . r TT 
3. EpfnjmusUtifoliw. Broad leafed Spindle tree of Hungry. 
This broad leafed Spindle tree, rifeth up (if it be manured) to be higher than any man, fpreading his (lender? 
pliant branches, uncatie to breake, whereon doe grow many faire broad greene leaves, let by couples, and asi 
lame as the leaves of Lauroierafui, or Cherry Bay tree, lightly dented about the edges, and of an unpleafant anch 
bitter tafte: at the j'oynts betweene the leaves and ttalkes fpring forth long ttalkes, with diverfe flowers at the 
endofthem, hanging downe their heads, conlifting of foure white broad leaves, tendingtoa flefli orblufh coi 
lour, very like unto the common Spindle tree, which turne into foure fquare heads of berries, and fometimes in i 
to five fquare berries, but much larger, having certaine lifts like towingeson every of them, wherein are coni 
tained white graines or kernells, covered with ayellow skinne as in the firfl. 
The Place, 
The firtt groweth in many p'aces of this Kingdome, in woods and untilled places, andferveth among otheij 
fhrubbes for hedges; the f'econd Cluftus found both in the upper and the lower Hungary., upon thole hills thal( 
runnetothe Alpes,as alfo in LMoravia in the woods there. Thelaft was found by ■Cluftus alfo, in a wood in thaij 
part of Hungary that is called Interamnis, and which the Germanes call H'indefchlandt beyond the riveiij 
Dravut. 
The Time. 
They doe all flower about May, and their berries arc ripe in September.. 
The 'JTjmes. 
This is generally by moll Writers called Evonymus, and taken to be the true of Theophraftm, quay 
hor.i summit iti lib.-}. cap. ultima, and which hec calleth Tetragonia tranflated fthtadratoria by Gaza in his thin 
Booke and li\t Chapter; but there are diverfe, and Lugdunenfis_ with them,that have rather judged an other 
fhrubbe to be Evnonymus, which Gefrnr in his Epiftles, and ClafiM inhishiftory of Plants, thinketobeakinde o? 
Ledum, and is by Cluftus called Ledum tsllpmum, (which I have remembred before in the former Claflis) b: 
niffesAbdroandus Xmum Alpinum, nsGejner in deferiptione montie frafii doth record, and is probable to b 
Chamerhododcndros lyilfinaodoraoiTena and Lobel in their Adverfaria, and which Lobell in his Obfejvatiom 
calleth 'Balfamum Alpinum : but Cluftus fheweth plainely, that it cannot agree therewith, not having a four, 
fquare head or huske. It hath beene corruptly called Anonymus of diverfe, inftead of Evonymus, as Cordusi 
Hift. faith, Trans miftaking it called it farpinus. It is called alfo Fufanum and Fuforia, becaufe the Italians cal 
led ic Fufaro, asbeing ufed by Turners and others, to make fpindlesfor fpinning wheelcs and other things, an 
by Bauhintn Evonymus vulgaris grants rttbentibw. The fecond is called by Cluftus Evonymus alter, vel Jecundu, 
by Camerarius and Tabermomdnus Evonymus T-amonictu, and by Bauhimss Evonymusgrants nigris. Thelaft 1 
called Evouymns jive latifolius by Cluftus and all others. It is called in Englilh Spindle tree.Pricketimbertre- 
and Prickwood, and in fome countries of this land Dogge wood, and might from the forme of the berries, ii 
well be called Square berried tree. The Italians call it Ettfano, the French Fufm,iud bonnet depreftre, the German* 
Spindetbaum, the Dutch Papcnhtmt. 
The Verities, 
This is fcldome ufed in Phyficke with us for to helpe any difeafe; yet it is found by experience that three el 
foure kernells will purge both by vomiting" & by the ftoole,cau(ing much chollcr andflegmeto'be avoided. T hen 
phraftus, and from him diverfe others, have faid that the leaves hereof are pernicious and deadly, efpecially i 
f.heepe and ©oates, unlette they be purged by Amchus ( which word is not well knowne what it. meaneth) Dl 
dometts interpreting it, that they Ihould be purged upward and downe ward, and others undemanding it, that thd; 
fhould be purged by want or abftinence from meate. Dalechampius as Lngdtsncnfi fetteth it downe, confirmei .1 
that faying oSTbeophraftus, to be hurtfull to Soates by his owne experience, who faw fiockes of (Soates feedir 
upon the fhrubbes that grew with this, but none of them to touch it,and that they refufed to eat it being caft un 
them, but Cluftus faith the cleane contrary, thathee underftood the Soates in Hungary did greatly dcfire to ea 
the leaves thereof, and tooke no harme thereby, and that the Hungarians in their language call this fhrubln 
Kechke rago fa, id eft capri, rofa arbor, the ©oates Rofe tree, fo diverfe be the writings and opinions of me;; 
. whereof in many other things we have fufficient experience. 
