tree leaves are, and ufed in tkcoftions are good againft the ulcers in the mouth or to wafh the teeth, the lame 
alio being drunke provoketh urine and womens couries. 
AUtemw five Philyca Theophrajli credit a, 
; Here is fo great affinity betweenc the former Mocke Privet, and this ever greene Privec, that divers 
1 good Auchours call the one by the others name, asyouhavein part heard in the former Chapter,and 
fhall more in this,whercof there are two lorts a greater and a Idle. 
i. AUternw major feu prior. 1 he greater ever greene Privet. 
The former of thefe two fhrubs,groweth fometimes tall like a tree, wich long but not any great 
branches,nor yet much divided into lefler ones,and are covered with a whitifh greene bark.arid with another yeU 
lowilh one under it,or more inward, whereon grow fomewhit broad leaves without any order, of a meanefife 
betweene the Ollive,and the ever greene Oke, but thicker.and flightly dented about the edges, and of adarke 
greene colour, of an unpleafant talk, and bitterifh withall, the flowers are many tufting together at the fetemg 
to of the leaves, and are of a whitifh greene colour, there hath not bcene any fruite oblerved to follow them. 
2. A Utermu minor feu alter. The lefler ever greene Privet. 
This other groweth lower by much, with a whitifh greene reddifh barkc mingled, the leaves arc lefler,roun¬ 
der, and dented about the edges, and of a paler greene colour, the flowers are greater and greener, fet together 
like the former, unto which luccecde (mall round berries, greene at the firft, reddilh afterwaards, and blackifli 
when they are ripe,having three (tones or feedes within each of them. 
The Place and Time . 
Both thefe were obferved by CIu/im in S paine and Portngalt, They flower there in their natural! place in Fe¬ 
bruary, and the fruite is ripe in c May, 
The Names, 
Pliny calleth this Alaternm quafi inter Oleum & llicem media , Bellomue in his firfl booke of Obfervations and 
4 * Chapter faith, that there is none in mount Achos but knoweth the true name of that tree, that Pliny calleth 
Alatemus, to be the Philyca of Theophralhti, but thofe ofCorcyra and Candy, call it iKstiafavO- EUpriniu, It is 
thefirft Alatemw o [Clufiuf, and the Alaternus Pllnij of Label, Cafalpinw zsTauhintu faith, but I thinke rather 
it fhoilld be Lugdnnenfis, calleth it Celafirm mas Theopbrafti t znd Cafalpinus Phillyra mat Theophrafii ; Lttgdur.cnjis 
take;h it to be CTpharca Theophrajli,which they of Mompelier call,as laith Lobel,Bourgejpine fomc alfo call it Phi- 
x. Alatemw major ♦ The greater ever greene Privet. 
, Alaternm minor. The lefler ever greene Privet, 
