Tribe cj. 
The Theater of Tlants. 
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i. Spina appendix vulgaris. 
The ordinary Hawthorne tree. 
Chap. XXVIII. 
Oyacantha'Diofcoridic cpuwufdam, iAeft,Spin* acuta feu pctiut Spin* appendix Tliniy, 
The white Thome or Hawthorne. 
He Hawthorne hath not beene fcnowne formerly to be of any more forts then one, but wee have in out 
li >h lPi time ^e knowledge two other which (hall b; prefcntly (hewed you. 
M pj 1 • Spina appendix vulgtru. The ordinary Hawthorne. 
The common Hawthorne groweth up in Tome places to be a tree of areafonable height ifeonvenienc 
drilling, pruning and keeping helpeic forward, otherwife it groweth to bebut a fhrubbe or hedge bufh, with 
divers (lioots armes and branches, whereon are let in divers places fharpe thornes and faire (hining leavcs.fome- 
what broad, and cut in on the edges into divers parts: the 
flowers are many Handing together,comming forth both at 
the tops of the branches and upper j'oynts with the leaves, 
confiding of five white leaves apeece, with divers white 
threads in the middle, tipt with red, and of averyplea- 
fant fweete Cent, after which come berries fomewhac 
lonu, with the roundnefle of a lively red colour when 
they are fully ripe and fomewhat fweete in tafte, contei- 
ning within them divers white feedes lying in a flocky or 
downie (ubftance which make it harlh in tailing, and if 
it fhculd bee eaten it would dicke to the throate and hurt 
the windc pipe: the rootegroweth (arre anddeepe. 
2. Spina acutahumilier. The low Hawthorne. 
The low Hawthorne never groweth (o high or great as 
the former, the leaves are fmalier but longer divided on 
the edges in the lame manner itheflowers alio arewhire 
and fweete and grow in tufts or cluders, bur the fruit that 
followeth is yellow tending to a Saffron colour, in other 
things itdiffereth not from theother. 
3 . Spina acuta bijlora Britanica . 
Badlands Hawthorne. 
We have another Tort ot Hawthorne growing in divers 
places of our Land well knowne to thole that dwell about 
the places where they grow, yet not greatly regarded or 
wondered at by them nor yet by many of thole that have 
feene them growingrbutl doe not thinke fit that it lliould 
be fc (lightly palfcd over or fo finally refpe£fed,for I lup- 
pofe it a ftrange worke of nature, or of the God of nature 
rather, to caule filch a tree being in all parts thereof like 
unto the common Hawthorne, to bloffomc twice every 
yeare, the one time ulually in Map as all others of the 
kind doe. the other about Chriftmas, cyther fomewhat 
before or fomewhat after, according to the temperature 
ot the Winter at that time, for if the Winter before bee 
nrilde without either great frolls or other hard weather, ic 
will be in blolfome white all over as i tv May, lotnctimes 
in T^yvember, or clfe in ‘December, but if it bee hard and 
fharpe weather ic will not blolfome untill tannery that the hard weather be over: it beareth alfo after chefc flow¬ 
ers are pad greenc berries.even iu the Winter before any greene leaves doe appeare or blollomes in L/l-fay, lo 
that ic will have both ripe fruit and greene at one and the fame time upon the tree: there hath not beene obferved 
any other difference betweene this kind and the ordinary Hawthorne. Some might thinke as it hath beetle cli- 
ipiued among divers that this happentth.by reafon of fome hot fpringes that take their courfe by the rootes of 
this tree, which reafon I grant hath lome appearance of likelihood, but wifely fcannedand confidered, is too 
light I thinke to hold weight, for how (hould one tree only blolTome in a place, and none of all the other trees in 
the lame traiff or compalfe of the lame Ipringes running ; and befidcs this there are of chefe trees in divers places 
ol the Land, as in Rtmney Marlh in Whet ftreet.as it is vulgarly called, but {hould bee rather High Ctreer, where 
it flandech in a moorifh ground chough upon a banke beaten with cold and Northerly blafts, andexpofedc > the 
furious winds on all fides, having no Ihtltcr or defence, but (landing in a flat and open foyle, where I thinke no 
hoc fpring eyther doth or is likely to breake forth or runne neare it: let the \vife and judicious Lean it throughly, 
if chis come to pafle by the nature of the loylc and fprings,or the naturall kinde of the tree. 
The Place. 
The firlf groweth every where in the hedges and borders of fields and wCfods: the fecond in Germany : the 
lafi at Glafienbury Abbey , and as is before faid in Highfireet or TVheyflreet in Tytmney Marfh, and neare unto 
Nantwkhe alfo in (fhefhire hy a place called white greenc, which tooke the name as ic was thought fronuhe 
white’ bulhes of thornes which there they call greenes. 
The Time. 
The time of thefe to flower is fpecified to be ordinarily in May and extraordinarily about Chrillma!,fometimes 
a little before and lometimes a little after: the fruit is ripe on the ordinary trees in September , and doe hang on 
them all the W inter as meate for birds,or untill the frods doe make them fall. 
The 
