Tribe 9- The Theater of'Plants, Chap, 23. 1005 
heaths and other walte gravelly or Tandy grounds,and To doth the laft as alfo about Orlenr.ee ; but the firft is found 
about Mompelier andhathbeenebroughtoutof likewife, 
'The Time. 
They all flower in the Sommer moneths bu: the greater forts forr.ewhat earlier then the IcfTer. 
The Names. 
The firft is generally taken to be the niym& Scorpius Theophrafti, which gaze tranflatethTVe/v* in lit, 6 . cap. i > 
where he faith Corrada and Scorpius are wholly compofed of thornes, bntnot that Scorpius lib. g.c. 14, vvholb 
roote he faith doth reprelent a Scorpion,and is good againfl the fling thereof, and which hee calleth Te'lephonen 
in the 19, Chapter of the fame ninth Booke, which doth moft properly decipher out the Doranicum whole 
rootes are very like unto Scorpions as I have fhewed before, (o that the word Scorpius is maaWos Poly femes 
dieho a word of many lignilications in Theophraftets,but Gaza doth molt unproperly make them both Nepa, there» 
by confounding this prickly Scorpius with the other: The firft is the Scorpius primus of Clufius, Scorpius a fr er anc j 
fecundus of Luedunenfrs mATabermontar.us, and genifta fpinofa of Dodoneus, Bauhinus calleth it Gcnifte fpinofa 
major lor.gioribns aculeie : the fecond is as I take it peculiar to ourowne Land, and not mentioned by my bef re 
Gerard , yet Bauhinus referreth it to the next: the third is the Nepa Theophrafi, of Libel, Gamer arias and Ta- 
iermontames, and Scorpius Theophrafli of Lujrdunenfis,'.Scorpius Jive Nepa of Anvuilara, and called by 'Bauhinus 
Geniftafpinofa major brevibus acuhis-. the fourth is the Geniftella of Tragus, Fuchfius, Dcdonsus, Lugdunexfis and 
Tabermtmtanus, Geuiflavel Geniftella fpinofa of Gefney in host is Geniftella acukataot Label fwlio thinketh it may 
baUo Flex Flinijlib.20.c.^. Tabermontamisind Lonicerus, calledby CafalpinusCoroneolse fimiliifujfrutex and 
by Bauhinus genifta fpinofa minor Gcrmanica : the fift is called by Bauhinus in his Tinax Genifta fpinofa minor Hi- 
ffanica vUloftjftma , but in his Trodremus Geniftella OHonfpeliacdfpinofa, and faith that fome of tMompelier called 
it Corruda lutea: the htt Bauhinus calleth geniftella minor tslfpalatoides vel Genifta fpinofa Anglica. faying it 
was lent out of £»%■land by the name of genifta sfinofa (which is probable was found in fome place of our Land 
unknowncrousastheplantitfelfeis, andfent him as a raritie, who faith the like thereunto was found about 
Orleauncc in France. The Italians call tile firft S corpione berba, the Dutch gufpeldoren, and wee in Fr.slifb Boric 
«Sorfc,andoffome Whinne,and thorny Broome.but that may be generally given to all thefe thorny bullies, and 
more particularly is appropriate to the fouttll fort, which the French call Goneftepierjuant, the germanes Stechend 
Pfrimmen ,and the Dutch Stechende Brem ,and we in Enelifh the ftnall prickly Broome. 
■ . . The Virtues. 
The firft and third are held to be hot and dry, good to open obftruftions of the Liver and Spleene, fome have 
ufed the flowers of eyther inadecoffion againfl: the Iaundies^s alfo to provoke Vrine and to cienfethcKidneyes 
of gravell or ftones ingendred in them. The others no doubt are participant of the fame qualities. 
Chap; XXIII. 
Bhamnut. Buckes thorne. 
8 SNderthe name of Rhantntts are comprehended divers forts of fhrubbes, fome much differing fiotn 
^ other.- the elder age in Theophraftus his time acknowledged two forts, the one white, the other'blacks 
and both ever greene: Diofiorides in his time acknowledged three which havebeene controverted by 
^ writers in thefe later times, wherein there are fome forts found out; feme of our later writers have 
caWcdant Rharnnusfolutivus, that is, purging Ramme, as a diftiruflion from the other that are not fo, whereof 
I have entreated in the fecond Claffis of this worke,and of the third Rharnnus of‘Dtofcerides (as the moft judici¬ 
ous doe account it j called Paliurus Chrifts thorne, I have entreated in my former booke : the reft that are re. 
ferred thereunto and called Rharnnus by other authors H all follow in this Chaprer, and beginne with that 
which is moft frequent in the Low Countries by the Sea fide as well as in the upland countries, and in cur owns 
Land by the Sea coalls in many places al(o. 
1. Rharnnus primus DioJcorUis Lobelia five littnralis. Sea Buckes thorne with Willow-like leaves. 
This Buckes thorne fliooteth forth many and fundry pliant twiggie ftemmes branched into divers fmallcr bran¬ 
ches, whereon are fee many long and narrow leaves without order, covered as it were with a white dufl or 
powder as the ftalkes arcalfo, with divers fmall thornes Handing among them: at the j'oynts with the leaves 
from the middle upwards grow fundry lmall greenifh moffie flowers together, which tunic into round berries, 
greene at the firft, and ofa yellowifh redneffc when they areripe,. having a. juice or flefhie fubltance within the 
outer skinne, and aflattifh round griff ly kernell within,of a blackifhbrowne colour: the roote i> tough, long, and 
fpreading much under ground: this abideth with the leaves on the twigges all the winter long, and lo doth the 
fruit alfo. 
Bauhinue upon Matthiolus fetteth downs that this Rharnnus doth varie in fome places neare the- Rhyne, we.that 
the one fort that hath broader and longer leaves hath but one or twoberries fee together upona (lalke; but that 
fort that groweth by the Danose and the River Ljcus hath fhorter and narrower leaves, and hath divers berries 
fet together. 
1. Rharnnus fecundus CStoxIfclienfiam five primus Clufij. White floored Buckes thorne. 
This Buckes thorne is a bufh fit to make hedges withall, rifing up with divers ftraight uprightifiems, 
divided into many branches, armed with very ftrong and fharpe thornes (landing out, from whence the fmall 
long and narrow thicke flefhy leaves come forth foure or five (landing together, almofl round acthe point fel- 
dome falling away before other have fprung forth: the floweislland at the fayd joynts with the leaves in hoary 
huskes three or foure together, being fomewhat long and round ending in five leaves, of a pure white colour 
where after they are fallen a certaine round thing groweth like unto that of the lafmine which ieldomc commeth 
to beare any fruite: the roote is thicke and long creeping farre away. 
3. Rhamniprimi Clufij altera fpecies. Red flowred Buckes thorne. 
This other buckes thorne is like unto the laft inpioft things, onely growing not fo high, bulking with more 
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