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The Theater of T/ants. 
Chap,25. lOij 
TheVertues. 
The ccmdenfate juice of Lycium is that that onely is to bee ufed,ofall the parts of thecree, which was made as 
Diojcorides fheweth of the leaves and berries, bat Pliny faith of the roote and branches, which being deeped 
three dayes in water was afterwards boyled and drayned, & then evoporated untill it came to the thicknes of ho- 
ny.and fo to be kept as a liquid medicine as Cmlen feemeth to intimate, orellc dryed up to the thicknefle of Opium 
and made up in that manner into Cakes, which as is fayd were to be broken to know the goodneffe: the feumme 
faith Diofcoridts taken away in the boyling is put with other medicines that (erve for the eyes, the red is put to 
other ules, yet the LjriKiw it felfe is alfo fet downe by him,to be effeftuall to ta e away thedimneffe and dimes 
that hinder the fight. It daycth Fluxes of all forts both of the belly and humours, as the Laske and Bloody flux, 
the abundance ofWomenscourfes,and the whites, bleedings at the mouth or nofe and fpitting of blood ; it is 
effeftuall alfo for allfowle and creeping Cankers,Vlcers and fores,whetherinthe mouth throat or other parts of 
the body, as alfo for the loofeneffe of the gummes, chappes in thelippes or clefts in the fundament, and at the 
rootes ofthe nayles of the hands: butefpecially for all fores in the privie parts of man or woman: itisgoodfor 
the cough being taken with water, as alfo againd the bitings of a mad Dogge : being put into the cares that 
runne and matter.it helpeth them: it is good alfo againd the itch andfeabbes' and to clenfe the skinne: it colou- 
reth the haire yellow,and giveth a yellow dye not onely to Leather and skinnes, but ferveth Dyers allband 
Painters in their workes. 
1 . RitDui vulgaris mtjer. 
The Bramble or Blacke bufh. 
Ghaf. XXV. 
'Rfb xr. The Bramble.’ 
§F the Brambles there are are divers forts, fome having thornes or prickles upon them, others few or 
\ none, fome growing higher and lower then others, fomealfo carefully nurfed up in Gardens which 
: are the Rafpics berries of divers forts, whereofl have in my former Booke given you the know- 
I ledge fufficiently and (hall not be here againe deferibed. 
1, Rubw vulgarU major . The common Bramble Blacke berry bufh. 
The common Bramble or Blacke berry bufh is fo well kno wne that it needeth no defeription, eyerv one that 
hath feene it being able 11 fay that it (hooteth forth many very long ribbed or draked branches,which althought 
great part thereof dandeth upright, yetby rcafon ofthe length 
and weakeneffe they bend againe downe to the ground, there 
many times taking roote againe,all ofthem thickc let with fhort 
and crooked thornes, and leaves like wife at feverall places up. 
on long prickly footedalkes, three and fometimes five fet toge- _ _ ^ 
ther, hard and as it were crumpled with fmall prickesonrhe 
middle under rib,of a darkegreene colour and grayifh under- wwecMS * 1 * 3 
neath.which feldomo fall away allthe winter.untill all the fharpe " 
frodsbe pad (whereby the countrey men doe obferve that the 1 
extremity of Winter is pad when they fall off,) and that new 
leaves fhortly after beginne to (hoot forth againe: the flowers 
are many fet together at the ends of the branches, which confifl 
of five whitifh leaves likethofe of thewilde Bryer bufh, and 
fometimes dafht with a little Carnation, with fmall threads in 1 
the middle, after which come the fruit every one by it felfe, f 
but confiding of many graines or Berries as it were fet together | 
in a round head like a Mulberry,greene at the fird, reddifh after- \ 
wards, and blacke and fwcete when they are ripe, which 
elfe are harfh and unpleafant : the roote gtoweth great and® 
knottie. 
1 . Rttbw minor Cbamerubui five Mumirubtu. 
The fmall low or ground Bramble. 
The branches hereof are very (lender, akvayes lying and tray-'ij 
ling upon the ground.never rayfing it felfe up as the former doth, < 
andoftenrootcthasitcreepeth, fet with crooked thornes, but 
much fmallei then the other &wirhthelike leaves and flowe: 
of a pale Rofe colour, and berries but fmaller, and of a blewifh' 
blacke colour when they aretipe like unto a Damfon. and a, 
fweete as the other Blaccke berry almod, but with Idler fappe. 
or juice in then : the roote here of creepeth about, and fromther, 
knotty j’oynts fend forth new branches. Of this kinde there is (j| 
another fort. 
3. Rubw montanw odor at w . 
Sweet mountaine Bramble or Rafpis. 
This mountaine Bramble or Rafpis (for to eyther it may bee ■ 
referred) hath fundry long dalkes riling from the roote without 
any thornes on them.but fet thicke with (oft haires,from whence (hoot forth the broad and large leaves without 
order, let upon long hairy footedalkes divided into five parts almod to the middle rib; e, and (omecimesbut into 
three or more.each a little dented about the edges of a very fweet lent but falling awa in wintertthe flowers are 
iomewhat large like the Eglantine of a delayed purplilh violet colour, with divers yellow threads in she middle 
fUnding 
