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Chap, XXX. 
Rofa Hiericontea. The Rofc of Hicricbo, 
|Here hath beene obferved two (ores of this fmall plant, called the Rofe 0 fHiericbo, the one accounted a 
1 Wilde fort^and yet the one groweth in as barren places as the ocher, 
1. Roja Hiericontea vulgo ditta. The vulgar Rofe of Hicricbo. 
The Rofe of Hicricbo is a fmall bufhy plant growing full of wooddy brittle branches, fee in a round 
compafle,and fyndry fmall leaves on rhcm,farre Idler rhen thofe of the Willow, and more necre unco the Privet: 
the flowers (land thicke clultring together, made ol 
foure white leaves growing out of long huskes,wher* -Rofa Hiericontea. 
in afterwards is contained two fmall feede, the roote 
is long and wooddy. This is faid to fmell fomewhat 
fweete.but I could never finde it fo,and to tafte fome- 
whac fh 3 rpe. 
2. Rofa Hiericontea Jylveftris, 
The wildc Rofe of Hiericho. 
The wild fore groweth in the lame manner, as the 
former,but the wooddy flalkes are differ and harder to 
breake^and hath (as it is faid) neither lmell nor tafte. 
TbeTlace and Time, 
Both thefe forts grow in Syria and Arabia, as Bel - 
bitiM and RaurcolfiM have obferved in their travailes. 
The Names, 
It is called Rofa dc Hierirho , and H t ericcor.tea , and 
Rofa Marie, by all that have wrictcnof it,(the Monkes 
as Bellonhi faith,being the firft inventors, of the name, 
and of the fuperftittons they added to it, when as he 
faith he found none hereof growing about Hiericbo % 
but oncly in Arabia, in the defarc land ncere the red 
Sea) except Cordus and his Father before him, who 
tookc it to be Aotomum,but faith Anthmius CMufa con- 
traryed that opinion for divers refpe'fls, and ycthec 
contumatioufly would uphold his father error, which 
fnewethhow neceffary unto fee the face of things 
growing as Camerariu* *nd others,who having fovvne 
the feede, doth fay it doth in fomc fort reprefent a 
Thlajpi, having but a little fharpe tafte in the branches 
oncly and roote. Rattrcolfm faith he found the other 
fort in Syria, growing among the rubbifh, and on the 
hoiifrs,and the f cfore called it a wildc kinde, Cordus to put a diftin&ionbetweene thefe two forts, called the 
former Amomum, and the later Amomit, comparing and fitting the description of Amomum in Viofcorides , unto 
the forme and parts thereof,yet how like foever he would make it,it commcth farre tbort of the true Amomum, 
asitis well knowne now adayes, ^erardan the contrary fide would referre it to a Heath, who is as farre wide 
as the other. 
TbeVcrtties,, 
It is not found ufefull in phyfleke for any refpeft that I can learnc : this onely property is in it, that how dry 
foever the plant is,being brought from beyond Sea,yet if it be fee in water for a while, it will dilate and open it 
felfe abroad,that all the inward parts may be diftin&ly obferved how it groweth, and although the leaves arc all 
loft,yet the feede and the veffells remaioC, from whence if it be frc(h,the feede taken hath growne, and will clofe 
up againe after a while,that it is taken out of the water, not as the fuperftitious Monkes,falfely fained that it did 
open miracuIoufty,that night that our Saviour was borne,and that it would doe f« in what houfe foever it is,when 
the woman with childc abiding therein, (hall be neetc her cijiic of delivery :fbr wkhmoy flute as I faid it will o- 
pen,and not without it. 
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