Tribe p. 
The Theater of Plants. 
Chap,32. 1035 
Cedar,and is almoft astfrongand powerfulltoconditeorenbaulmethe bodies ofthedead, toprefervethem from 
putrefaflion as it : the built de cade or abhominable linking Tatre,is ufed not onely of theShepherds to cure their 
Shecpe and Dogges of the mangy, icabbes, lice, &c. but helpcthalfotokill lice, and cure the fcabbes in childrens 
heads, and is ufed eyther ofiti'elfe alone,or with a little Vinegar to an aking tooth to eafe the painc, or elie to 
breake it or caufe it to fall out -• the fame alfo is effcftuall to denfe and dry up watering,conhoding or creeping 
Vlcers: it is alfo ufed to bee laid upon wood to preferve it from Wormes, and the fmell thereof driveth away 
Mothes and other noyfome Flics. 
P tunut fjlvefirii. 
The Blacks thorne or Sloe bulk. 
Chap. XXXII. 
Prftnw fjlvefirii. The blacke Thorne dr Sloe bufli. 
Ht the blacke thorne or Sloe bufh here take up a place,becaufe it is fo thicke liored with thorites. It ne; 
vergrowethtothegreatneffeofatreebut alwayes abideth as an hedge bufh, in fomc places rifing 
higher then in others,having ufually divers (femmes riling from the tootes, branched forth into grea¬ 
ter armes and fmaller fprayes, ftored with (frong.fhort and fharpe thorncs, fet with and belides 
the final! daike greene leaves finely dented about the edges: the flowers arc very white,many fet on the branches 
in divers places and not wholly at the toppes,confiding of five leaves as all other Plummes and Cherries have, 
with divers white threads tipt with yellow in the middle, after 
which follow the fruit, which are as all know,blacke and finall 
when they are ripe, and with the harfhneffe a little fweete, but 
before that time fo harfli that none can induce to taffe them -• 
thefe are all of one forme, that is round, and of one fize or big- 
nefleina manner,but to be much bigger or elfe as big as a Bulleis, 
or to be long with the roundnefle as a Damplon or other larger 
Plum I did never fee -• the roote is great and wooddy,fpreading 
under ground and (hooting forth againc in divers placcs,if it be 
not cut and ptuined. 
The Place. 
Itgroweth in every place and country,in the hedges and bor¬ 
ders of fields,and is for their devifiona kire defence. 
The Time. 
Itflowreth early, that is, alwayes in Apri/l and fometimes in 
eJUarch,' fo flrong and hardy it is againft all the injuries of the 
weather, but ripencth the fruit after all other Plummes whatfo- 
ever, for it is not fully ripe and fit 10 be eaten and ufeduntill the 
Aucumne f'rofts have mellowed it. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke yem/ittea, dyes* Coccymelea tgria and 
agriococcymelea quod magritttdine & rottinditatc 
coccimalaferat , and the frut dyc/oyj>Azu^ohiy agriocaccymelon: but 
Galen faith that they call it in Afia Pmrmtim, in Latine 
Vrunw fylvcjhii and Prtmellw, Tie gill quarto Geargicorttm cal— 
Iethit Spinw in the mafeulinc gender in thefe words, 
Et Spinu) jamprunaferentes. 
And fo doth Serviw and divers other authors fince their times. 
The Bulleis is accounted a kind of wild Plumme, of the kinds. 
whereof I have fpoken in my former booke. The Italians call 
it Pruno falvatico , the French Prunity Jauvaga, Yrunelier and 
Pc!ef]rr,(heGe?ma»es Scblchexdorn and Haherfclehen , the Dutch 
Slehendoren and wee in Snglijh Blacke Thorne or Sloe tree, or 
Bufh. 
The Vertucs , 
All the parts of the Sloe bufh are binding, cooling and drying, 
and all cffcftuall to lfay bleedings at the nofeor mouth or any 
other place, the Laske of the belly or flomack or the Bloodv 
flux, the abundance of womens courfes, and helpeth to eafe the paine in the fides.bowells and guts,that come 
by overmuch kowring, todrinke the decoffion ofthe barke of the roote, or more ulually the decoffion of the 
berries eyther frefh or dryed. The Conferve likewife is of very great ufe and mod familiarly taken for the pur¬ 
ports aforefaid : but the diftillcd water ofthe flowers firfl deeped in Sackefor a night, and drawne therefrom 
by theheateof 3 Balneum,is a moffeertaine remedy tryed and approoved,to eafe all manner of gnawings in the 
fiomacke, the (ides heart or bowe!ls,or any other griping paines in any of them, to drinke a l'tnall quantitie when 
the extremities of painc are upon them : the leaves alfo are good to make lotions, to gargle and wafhthe mouth 
and chroate, wherein is fweliings, fores or kernells, and to flay the defluxions of rheurne to the eyes or other 
parts,as alfo to coole theheate and inflammations In them,and to eafe the hot paines of the head.tq bathe the fore¬ 
head and temples therewith. The Ample deflilled water of the flowers is very cffeftuall alfo for the (aid purpo- 
fes, and fo is the condenfate or thickned j'uice of the Sloes: the diftilled water of the greene berries before they 
be ripe is ufed alfo for the faid effedls of cooling binding and (faying the flux ofblood and humours, and fomc 
other purpoks.queftttdiofe prstereo. The j'uice of the fruit of Sloes is taken as a Subllitute for the j’uice of Acacia 
in all our Apothecarier Pnoppes, which fubfficution although it bee not much to be mifliked, as having one and 
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