Tribe* 5, 
The Theater of 'Plants. 
Chap.85. 655) 
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SmnJI leafed male Ciftus!, 
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then it: the flowers alfo are fomewhat larger and of a deeper co- 
.{our, and the heads of feede bigger, hard and hairy as the other, 
with reddffh feede in them; and herein confifteth the chiefeft dif- 
iferences from them. 
n. ci/hu mas folio brtviore. Small leafed male Ciftus. 
This fmall Ciftus for io I may call it,as well in retpecl of the 
growth being lower, and the branches (lenderer, then in any of 
, die other,as in that the leaves hereof are fmaller and Ihorter then 
in the firlf here fet forth, and are alio greener, and rougher and 
• more clammy and fweeter alfothenany male Ciftus: the flowers 
1 are of a paler colour like in forme unto the other, but fomewhat 
[.larger and fweet,which is not found in any other ofthis lort,and 
abide longer in their huskes before they fall; in other things it 
differeth not. 
4. Ciftus mas huMilit. The low male Ciftus. 
I This Ciftus groweth lower .bending downc his many branches 
. from the roote almoft.ro the ground, not much above halfca 
yard long, the leaves that are not fet by couples, as in the other 
forts of Ciftus are (mail and crumpled, unevenly waved as it were 
on the edges white and hoary: the flowers thatftand at the end a 
of the branches are many let together of an equall height, in^ 
i forme ofanurnbell.or tuft,or nolegay.but fmaller, yet of a brigh- 
1 ter reddiih purple,then are in the lecond fort here let forth : che 
heads which containe blackifh feede, are fmaller then in the 
other,and are almoft hidde in the fmall huskes that hold them. 
The Place. 
All thefe forts grow in Spaine and Portugal! and fome of them 
in Prance and Italy, 
The 'time. 
They all doe flower in CMay in their naturall places, but about 
Midfomer with us,and lometimesearlier. 
The Names. 
Itis called in Crecke and wVJ©-, Ciftmmi Cifthnt which 
the Latines alfo doe hold, not haying any other name whereby 
toexprefleit: fome alfo call it w'Sa£?i’and*jWe;i', Citharort and 
Cijfarcm.tis perad venture derived ffom lu ’«"rCijf<« Hedera, which 
ciuiahT liny hiserrour; for in writing of Hedera in his 16. Book'“ n d 34-Chap. hee faith it is of two forte, 
male and female,&c. which in his 14. Booke and Io. Chap, hee faith the Cifttis hath : but it maybee Pliny way 
herein deceived by a falfe copy of Tbeophraftus, which hee follow e< I which had “w inftead ui^r©- for Cj^e.a 
in transiting of Tbeophraftus, doth fall into the fame errour with Pl m 7 >. making Hedera to bee male and female, 
with flowers likeRofes but afluredly unleffe the copies were falfely written, which bred that errour, we cannot 
judge that Thcophraftw; who had written lo cxaftlyin another place o f the feverall (orts of Ivie,fhould be fo much 
forgotten in this, to fay Ivie hath flowers like Rofes.&c. Some call it RofaSjhatica : the Arabians c all it RamiPl 
Ahhchjx Ibaio.tlthis-.tht Italians Cifio snafehio-. the Spaniards Corynacos and Ejlcpa : the Porttigalls Rofeila; the 
French und Dutch Cifte, and we in Englijb male Ciftus likewife or the Sage Rofe, becaufethe leaves of the one 
fort are rugped and hoary like Sage leaves, and the flowers like Angle Rofev, but why Gerard fhould call it the 
Holly Role I fee no reafon, having no refemblance unto Holly, but bccaufe that name hath bcene long impofed 
upon it,I will let it fo paffe. All thefe forts of Male Ciftus, with the other fet forth in my other booke, arc remem- 
bred by Clufttts in his Hiftory of Plants,and needenot furtheramplification. 
TheVtrtues , 
The Male Ciftus is drying and aftringent, and not without fome little heate, yet fome tliioke it to bee cold, 
and is very profitable to flay bleedings at the mouth or nofe, vomitings, and weakenefle of the ftomacke, and 
fluxes ofblood or humours in man or woman, as the Laske.the Blooddy ftix, and all other extraordinary fcow- 
riugs or loofenefle of the belly,and womens inordinate courles: the flowers faith Diofccridcs and Cyakn are the 
molt effeftuall for thole ptirpofcs.to be drunke in red wine, yet the leaves and young (hoots or buddes may bee 
ufed with good fuccefle : and thefe applyed in a ferote to any fealding or burning of fire or water doth heale 
them quickly: the^fo bruifed and 1 -.yd to any greene wound,clofeth the lippes thereof and reftraineth the blee- - 
ding t the leaves aWpindtheyoungfhootes boyled in wine, and filthy or old Vlcers waffled with the decoftion 
thereof.yea although they be cankrous, eating or fpreading Vleers,w ill wonderfully and quickly (lay the freeing 
moyft humors,and dry and heale them: the diftilled water of the leaves and flowers is of the like efficacie, and in 
all things where there ncedeth drying, binding and ftrengthning, this is to very good purpofe applied. 
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