T R IB E.Zj., 
The Theater ofTlants. 
Chap.20. 451 
. A star mm Ibinojks, five Comtda fisiais horrida. Afparagus wich crucll fharpe [homes. 
. ° [ . .1. .--A __L « A^ rs*-- < r-b 1* fl-rir»f7V7 rnnl-p oc lift hnf upllru* 
Itfcornc, growing downeward, and together with the ,h glbi 
K thorneupon the younger branches, hand five or fixe (mall imm 
ji: Jong, narrow and fofc leaves, cluttering together, which 
:i are of a fweetifh clammie or gummic tafte *. at the joints M| //} 
likewife with the leaves, come forth the flowers, of a Sa l m'Mr 
: yeliowith greene colour, each of them (landing upon a a-® 
long and (tender footc flalke, hanging downeward: af- 
: ter which come in their places large roundifh berries, red 
1 when they arc ripe, feeming to be three Square, full of a f ^ 
; tough or clammie juyee, containing with it one blacke 
I graine or feede, and leldome two. u 
The Place. w 
This firft kinde by tranfplanting is thought to become 
f the garden kinde, and groweth in many low medowes 
! that are nere the lea, as alfo in many other places further 
of, the coalts as I doe heare ; for it is thought that it is this 
kinde that groweth in the Marches of Tidnam, nave Chip-. 
ij ft oil , and in Apleton medow in Gloftcrfinre, which is about 
two miles from Triftow, from whence the poore people 
doe gather the buddes or young (hootes, and fell them in 
the markets of Briftow , much cheaper then our garden 
I kinde is fold at London : the fccond groweth in ftony and 
1 rockie places, neare unto Salamanca in Spaine, and not one- 
I ly under the hedges, but in the very fields alfo in Caflile and 
Cj.mado , and about Narbone and Mompelierin France, and 
in alfo: the third groweth both by hedges fide, and 
in many ftony and ragged places, both in Spaine and portu - 
gall, and in (fandy alfo as Bellonius faith : the Iaft groweth 
alfo in rough uneven places, very plcntifull about Lifisborne, 
in the common wayes, and by the river Tagus, and in ma¬ 
ny ocher places, both in Spaine and Portugal/, and in Candy 
like wife ; but it will hardly endure our cold climate. 
The Time, 
They doe for the moft part all flower, and beare their 
berries late in the yeare, and fcarfe at all with us, although they be houfed in W inter. 
The Names . 
It is called in Greeke dtsm^m and Afparagus and csLfpharagus. Varro faith/ quia ex afperis virgul- 
th ligetur• Pompeius Cjrammaticw , quod in afpera virgulta nafeitur ; but as Cjalen faith the firft budding of any herbe 
that wasufed to be eaten, after it was fprung from the feede, was called^ fparagru, as in Cabbage, Lettice, and 
the like buddes, or (hootes of herbes; but in fpeciall, and as ttioft deferving this hath kept the name peculiar to it 
felfe. It is called alfo in Latine Corruda, qmdubi ado levit facile corruat decidatq*. Tliny faith the Athenians called 
ho-fxivtov'Hormimon, amtH o^a } quodeft ruo,&y fome,but othersthinke it to be derived bimHl^uAv y nam^r deco*. 
Plum cir fenten Veneris caufa bibit nr :the Arabians call it Halion or He lion,the Italians A spar ago-the Spaniards AJpa - 
ragos ; the French Afparge- } the Germans Spar gen ; the Dutch Corallcraut , in EngliJlj S perage or Afparagus: the 
firft fort is to be underltood of that kind which is fet forth in my former Book:tke lecond is called by\Afattbiolut % 
Angiiilara, and Tabermontantft, A fparagus paluftris jby Label and Pena in their Adverfaria, Afparagus mariti - 
mus Diofcoridis, by Clupus and Camcrariw , Afparagus marinus ,and by Tauhinw Afparagus maritimus crafpore fo¬ 
lio : the third is generally thought to be the Afparagus petrous of Ditfcorides and Cjalen , which he faith is alfo 
called Myacanthus, in his fixth Booke of Simples or Ample medicines,and of Pliny Corruda, txfylveflri* Afpara¬ 
gus, T heopbr aft us inhisGxth Booke and firft Cliapter, faith that Afparagus ('without giving it any another Epi- 
thite, which it muft be under flood of this kinde)and Scorpio are nothing but thornes* for they have no leaves. 
Afatihiolus and Tabermontanus call it Afparagus petrous, and Corruda ; Gefner , Tiodoneus, Camerarius, and 
others, call it Afparagus fylveflris • Clupus Corruda prior. Cordus , Lobel , Lugdunenfts antfothers Corruda , and 
Bauhfnus as I doe, Ajparagus folijs aentis: the fourth is called by C lupus Corruda alter a , by Lobel Corruda Hiipa- 
nied y and fo doe Lugdunenfts and Tabermontanus, by Dodoneus Afparagus fylveftris- and by Bauhinus Afparagu? 
aculeatus alter tribus, aut quatuor (pinis adeundem e.vortum : the laft is called by Clufius ,Corrtidatertia\ ‘Belloniw in 
his firft Book of Obfervations,and 18-Chapter, faith,that they of Creere, called it Polytricha • by Dodon^us Afpara- 
gus fylveflris tertius • Lobel and Lugdunenfts call it as Clufius doth, Corruda tertia, and Bauhinus aculeatus jp inii 
horridus. 
The Vertues. 
The young buds or (hootes or branches of any of thefe forts of Afparagus boyled, are more powerful! in Phy- 
ficketo helpe difeafed perfons then the Garden kinde: the buddes or branches boyled in ones ordinary broth 
helpethtoopen the belly, and to make it foluble, and either they or the rootes boyled in wine, provoke urine 
beingftopped : and is good alfo againft the bardneffe or difficulty to make water, or the Strangury when it 
commeth by drops, and to expcll gravell aijd the gone QUt of the kidneyes, and helpeth alfo other paines in the 
remes 
