486 Chap.63' 
Tbeatrum 'Botamcum* 
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tint/ elsC.M Tan,arinhera, m d the fruit eTnmtrinb*. Thefecond is the Ericabacciferaot Mattbiol* which Lo. 
-■?- - ■ —< <• - t- — Mattbioli, and is the eleventh Encacoru folio of : but this 
bcLLupdunenCis,cxtdTbttliwt call Ericabaccifera a_ . . 1t , c ■ ■ , - r , 
is not the Vaccinia palafiria Dodo net, before fee forth, which Luedanenfir cilleth Ertcabacctfera Doionei, not 
the O.vjcoccttm Cerdi, being all one. 
J The Vertues, 
I have referred the declaration of the Venues of all the former, unto this place, that I might (hew you them 
altogether Heath is fomewhat drying, and a little bitter withal!, except the berryed forts, as Clnjiut hath rela¬ 
ted bv the nfleofmoft ofthem. &,/« faith it hath a digefting quality, reviving the malignity of humours, by 
tranlpiration or fwearing; which a decoftion of the flowers beingdrunke, doihperforme, and thereby giveth 
much eafe to the paincs within the body, andexpclleththeworir.es therein alfo: the leaves and flowers made 
into a decoSion is good againft the (ling orbitings of Serpents, and other venemous creatures, and the fame be- 
in-> drunkewarme faith Matthiolm, for thirty dayes together, morning and evening, doth ablolutely breake 
the Hone and drive it forth: the lime alio, or the deflilled water of the whole plant, being drnnkeeafeth the 
cbollicke • the faid water or the juyee of the herbe dropped into the eyes helpeth the weakened of the fight: 
ChtCrne faith that Rmdeletim at Montpelier ufed the oyle made ol the flowers of Heath with good luccelle agair.ft 
the Wolfe in the face or any other foule or fretting and eating canker Ipreading over the whole face: the lame 
alio doth dilfolve tumours: abathe made by decoaion of the herbe and flowers is goodI tor them to firm, that 
are troubled with ihe Hone, or with the gout, for it giveth much eale tothem both: the white berryes of the 
Heath frith CUfut arc brought to the markers in Spairte, and there fold to give tothofe that havehot agues, to 
code the heate and quench their third ; and befides are much defired faith hee, of women and children, to 
Dleaid their pailate : the hony that che Bees take from the flowers of Heath is called mel tntprobnm, but we have 
not found any ill q laliry therein in cur Land : onely it will be higher coloured then in thole places where no 
Heath groweth. 
Chap. LXIII. 
Aprifliitmftve Aquifiliam, The Holly bufh or tree. 
Ome have thought that there are divers forts of Holly, fome trecr, fome (Stubs, fame with prick¬ 
ly leaves, and fome with fmooth, but the truth is,it is but of one fort, for although it hath bcene 
feene in divers places to grow to be a great tree, as Gefner in bar tit reporteth, of divers, and of one 
a- Curia thirty ioote high, whofe leaves were fmooth and not prickly, yet no doubt buc it rofe 
from a young fhoote that was prickely at the fitft, forwhiieicis differed to (lioote forth fundry 
roddes from the roote, or before any of them groweth to be great, the leaves are prickely, buc 
crowinnoldasthe//f.vdoth, itloofcththe prickles and becommeth fmooth, aind onely prickely at the end, and 
femecimesnot. It is withus moil ufually abulh, and with many Aiooces from the roote growing (lowly, un- 
lelfe the ground be not gravelly, wheieitmoft frequently is found, but more mellow and gentle; the outer 
barke whereof is of a fad grecne colour, but ic hath alfo another inward, which is whiter: the leaves are let on 
the ftalkes and branches on (horcfooteftalkes,;being fomewhat broad, hard, thicke and long, fmooth ihining, 
and of a very belli yellowifh greene colour, cut roundabout the edges, into round notches or 
dents, and every point of them very fharpe and prickely: the flowers grow clafe to the (Hikes, at 
the footeofthe leaves many comming forth cogether round about them, andconfiftof foure white leaves with 
foure chredsin ihe middle (landing about a grecne round head, with groweth to be a (mall red berry when it is 
ripe, like untoa Hawthorne berry, buc with a little Crowne at the toppe which parteth into foure (mail trian¬ 
gular ieede,with hard fhels, and a fmall fweete kernell within them, abiding on all the Winter, aimoflinms 
grcatell beauty ■■ the roote groweth deepe, the woodisfirme and hardly linking in water, and of awhitifh 
co l our - . 
2. Aquifolium undiqtieechinatum. Holly with leaves wholly prickely. ^ 
This differeth not from the ordinary fort, cither in body, barke,fruite, roote,or ule, onely inthcleafe, which 
is no leffe armed with fharpe prickles, all upon as about the edges thereof. 
The Place 2nd Time, 
Hollygroweth in wafte and unfilled grounds, indivers Countries throughout the whole Land, andaslfaid 
fcldomc groweth with us to be a tree of any bignefle, itflowreth in Iune, and the berryes grow ripe, not untill 
the end of Ottobcr, and then abide almoftallthc Winter long, being frefheft at Cbrifimas, the leaves doe alwayes 
abide greene. 
The Names, 
Theophrajlw callcth it in Greeke which Gaza rendtreth Aquifolia, following Pliny therein, and yet he 
hath an Aquifolia Ilex , which is the Ilex coccigera declared before, by which name he would intimate that there 
is an Ilex, that hath dented prickly leaves, as the Aquifolium hath, and not that the Aquifolium is any kindeot 
Ilex, which beareth Acomes, and the rather in that the Aquifolium doth not endure fuch hot fixations as that 
Ilex doth : fome doe call it Agrifolium, as well as Aquifolium,Lacuna tooke it to be Diofcorides his fecond PaltUm 
rw, and Guilandinw from Pliny, the Crat£gu* of Theophra^HS^Tfodonaus faith that fome called it RufcMfylve- 
fii a , Cdfalpimti doubteth whether it may not be the Hedera rigens of Pliny, which he faith, fiat fine admmcxlo, 
and therefore j/oLj omniumgenernmob idvocata ciffos , none ofthefe Authours flicwingany prickles in the leaves 
of rhofc plants they let forth. The Italians call it Aquifoglioj the Spaniards Azebos ,the French Houx,z\id tiottfion, 
the Cjermanes JValddtfell, and of fome Stechender Palmen, as Gefner in hartis faith,which is Talma aculeata, With¬ 
out all reafon, ihe T)titcbHulfi i 2r\d we Holly,or Holme and Hulucr# 
TheVertues. , 
The berries are hot and dry, and of thinne parts, helping to breake winde faith e DodontnM, and there ore goo 
lo helpc the chollicke, lor faith he, I have ic fr.om them who have made tryall of them, that tenne ot twe_v o 
