1026 Chaf.2 9. 
Theatmm Botanicum. 
Tribe 9. 
The Names . 
Very many fas A-fat thiolus, Lacuna, Turner , Tellonius, Lobel,Dodon<iW, famer arias fiafa/ptxtts ,Rautrolfius f[la- 
lius fTabermontanus and feme ocher ) dee take this Thorne to be o’frta'jan s* Oxyacantha of Diofcor ides which hce 
deferibeth to be like the Pcare-treebut leffer, and very thorny,bearing a berry like unto thole of the Myrtle, but 
red,fuil and eafie to breake, having a (lone or Kernell within it, feme alfo thirke that it is^eW o[T)iofcorides t 
others take it to be the O '%vciya.vZ& Oxyacanthus of Galen, which he Ukewife faith is like unto the wiide Feare- 
tree in forme, and not unlike it in qualitie.fo that the ones mafeuline the others feminine are but one bufe or tree, 
by the judgement of many thebeft Herbarifts although feme take them to bee divers, as C&mcrarita who doth 
make the Barbery buffi to be the Oxyaeantbos of Cjalen, and not the Oxyacantha of Diofcorides , and lo dee alio 
C°rdw upon Diofcorides and Tabcrmontanus JAermolaus and Rue Him iikewile dec take the Bai bery to be Oxyacan- 
tba, and fo doe FuchfmsfTiragus, Cornarius, and Tome other whom <Jlfatthiolru juftly gainefayeth,for there is r.o 
Ijkeneffe in the Barbery excepting the thornes (and yet in them there is a difference) unto Oxyacantha, being nei¬ 
ther in forme of body hke the wiide Pcare,nor in the fruit like unto a Myrtle, dry and fryable eafie to breake,the 
•Baibery being moyft and full of juice. Tragus faith that fometooke the Hawthorne to be z Arbutus. But 7 hee- 
p hr a ft us his Oxyacantha is neither Barbery nor Hawthorne, which in his firft Booke and 15. Chapter hee purteth 
among chofe trees that are ever greene,which cannot be faid of eyther Baibery or Haw thorite, for that in no place 
or countrcy they are knownc to kcepe their leaves,but to loofe them in W inter, but by the judgement of the bed 
and moft expert Herbarifts in our times, the Pyracantha as I have declared in my former booke is the true Oxya¬ 
cantha both of Diofcorides although hec hath not mentioned any fempiternitie of leaves, and TheeybraHw alfo 
agreeing thereto in ail things: Some there be alfo that would make the Spina appendix Phnij to bee the Barbery 
bufii as LugdunenfiS) but C In fits is againft that opinion for that therein there are thefe two doubts, firft that PU- 
ny if hce had meant the Barbery by his Spina appendix would not have forgottenthe three thorr.es-that groW to¬ 
gether in the Barbeiy which is eminent enough therein : and next hee would not have forgotten the ycllowco- 
lour, both in the barke of the branches and rootes : but the moft judicious of thefe later times, among whom is 
Gefner in hortU and Clufius inhiftoriahwe determined tfet Spina appendix Plinij , which fonaetimes alio he callcth 
Spinal imply, can be no other thornethen this Hawthorne,'which Tragus and Lomcerw tooke to bee Cynofbates 
J hcophrafliy and Cordus in hifioria calleth it Sorbus acttleata, Anguilara Spina alba vtilgo, and Spina acuta as De- 
don eta doth alfo. Bduhinuj placeth it among the Medlars calling it UWeJpilus apijfolio fylveftrjifpinofa five Oxya¬ 
cantha, and as akinde thereof like* lie puttQth the Tyrac ant ha, but in my opinion he had done better and more 
rightly,to haveteferred them both to the kinds ofScrviccs whercunto they better agree then unto Medlars, in 
that Services arc fmallcr fruits as thefe arc: the fecond here exprtffed is mentioned by Dodonaw under the name 
of Spina acuta humilior : the lad as a kind peculiar to our owne countrey as I tbinke,l have here fet forth unto you 
more exactly then Gerard, whoonelyhad a fuper ficiall notion or rather relation thereof. The Hawthorne is 
called by the Arabians iMmirb&is, by the Italians in lomc places Tugaio, and in others Ampcrlb, and Tan d y orfo t 
by the Spaniards Pirliter0, by the French A’ubejpin (Ruellius faith that the vulgar fort doc cal] it SeneUe , yet 
fhtercetAnw fetteth a fruit downe irtfemc of his receipts by the name of fruttus Sene thrum in his Pharmacopxa rr- 
ftituta to be Paliurm unlefte hee thought the Pali urns to be the Hawthorne:) by the Germans Hagcndorn , by the 
‘Dutch Hagcndoren and by us fn Bnglijh Hawthorne, or Hedgethorne, Whitethornc and 'JWay or CAfay. bufii, 
bccaufs oui‘ ordinary fort fcldome or never flowieth before May and never after. 
The Vertues . 
The berries or thefeedcsin the berries are generally held to be a fingulargcod remedy againft the (lone, if the 
powder of them be given to drinke in wine : the fame is alfo reported to bee good for the Dropfie : but whereas 
divers have attributed hereunto a binding or aftringent qualitie Anguilara his judgement was (whom Afatthioius 
confutcth)that Tragus who faith chat the leaves,flowers & fruit are drying and binding,and that if the Rowers be 
deeped three dayes in wine, and afterwards diftilled in glaffe, the water thereof drunke is a foveraigne reme¬ 
dy for the plurifie,and for inward tormenting paines: the diftilled water of the Rowers by an ordinary way ftay- 
eth, faith he, the Flux or Laske of the belly : the feeds cleared from the downe bruifed and boyled in wine and 
drunke performeth alfo the fame effeft : the faid diftilled water of the Rowers is not cnely cooling but drawing 
alio :Tor it is found by good experience that if clothes or (punges be wet in the fayd water and - applyed to any 
place whereinto thornes,lplinters,&-c. have entered and bee there abiding it will notably draw them forth : the 
vertues given by Cjalen unto Oxyacantha doe not pertainc hereunto, for faith he the fruit thereof is not fewer or 
harfh,especially when it is ripe, but fwcet and therefore more fit to open then to binde the belly, and fitter to 
bring downe then to ftay womens monethly courfesibut the laft evinccch this errour. 
Chap. XXIX. 
Sabina. The Savine tree or bufe. 
fort ofSavine T have expreffed and fet forth in my former Bocke, the figure whereof 1 here (Lew 
11 a^aine,the other forts (hall be exhibited in this Chapter. 
1, Sabina baccifcra major. The greater berried Savine tree. 
The greater Savine tree that grovveth with us fpreadeth not fo much as the former Savine doth, 
uut rifeth more upright to a mans height (but Tellonius faith in hb.de coniferis that he law it as high as 
an Almond tree on the mountaines Ama>m and Olympus in Phrygia) fpreading forth armes ar.d branches fully 
furntfeed with leave-, which at their firft comming forth are fomewhac like unto Tamariske leaves, but being 
growen old they are more like unto the leaves of the Cypreffe tree, hard and pricking, and ofa darke greene co¬ 
lour with an eye of blew feado wins them of a fent leffe ftrong and nothing fo fha.rpe as the ordinary: it hath not 
beene obferved to bearc any Rowers but fmall round berries like unto Juniper berries, but greater and of a fharpe 
tafte, blacke when they are ripe with an eye of blew upon them like the Juniper or the ordinary Savine,which 
divers have held to be barren, taking their authority from Pliny, who alfo faith that Rpfemary bearcth no feeds 
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