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Show Theatrum Botanicum. atthe end, the youngleaves that {pring forth fromthe branches, keeping oftentimes the fame order, and are of a darke thining greene colour above, and fomewhat ofa yellowith greene underneath; ftriped with white and fometimes with ted fpots, abiding frefh and greene Winterand Summer : from the joynts of the flalkes and toppes of the branches, stow forthuponfhort {talkes {mall moffie yellow flowers, ftanding in an umbell orclofe round tuft ; after which come finali round berries, greene untill they grow ripe, and then turning blacke, with a {mall point at the end of every one, in whichis contained nfually foure feedes three {quatein a mannet, buc ur ordinary Ivie, 3. Hedera Dionyfias five chry(ocarpos. Yellow bettied Tyig, Aledera Dionyfias fide Chryfocarpos, Yellowberried Ivie, Theleaves of this Ivie are feldome cornered on the edges,but fmooth, and onely pointed at the ends, of a frefher greene colour,or not fo blacke as the firlt,thicker alfoand fuller of veines, and more thinly or fparfedly growing on the branches : che berries are greater then in others, and ofa gold yellowcolour, declining to bee more browne when they are ripe. 4. Hedefabelix, Barren Ivie. : The barren Ivie’ fendeth forth divers flender weake wooddy branches,trayling upon the ground,and for the moft part lying thereon; but fometimes it is found to winde it felfe, and clime up the buthes and hedges under which it groweth, with the fmalltendrells it fhooteth forth at the feverall joynts of the branches, where the leaves come forth, being fomewhat leffer then the former, and ofa darken fhining greene colour, uftally formed into three corners, yer fometimes intofive: at the joynt with the leafe underneath, thruft farth alfo “{mall white fibres or rootes, wherebyit taketh hold.as it creepeth : this beareth neither flowers nor feede. 5. HederatrifoliaVirginenfis, Trefoite lvie of Virginea. The rootes ofthis plant doe fhoote underground, and 5. 6, ,Hedera Virginenfis trifolia @ quinguefolia. Virginean Iie of three andfive leayes, Ba, Lie Aer <SS : red, but whenit groweth elder, ithath nocorners on thefides,and onely round or fomewhatlonge, and pointed 3. | as wellas if it werenot taken away. at all,butby faftning the roots into the wall, and there growing great, they often fo crackeit that it willin time alfo ruine iclutterly : while the treeis young the leaves oF moft will be corne- Whice berried Ivie; L or yellow berries are feldome feenc in thefe Chriftian parts, yet J will fhewyoninthis Chapter thofe diverfities that 7 heophrafius {peaketh ot which theyhad in former times, joyning thereto fomelater found out kinds, __ 1. Hedera arboreafivelcandens & Corymbofanigra. The ordinary Climing Ivie. _The climing Ivie groweth upwitha thicke wooddytrunke orbody, fometimes as bigge as ones arme, ting forth onalffides many wooddybranches, and groweth fometimes alone byir felfe intoa pretty {hoobufh or tree,as Lobe/ faith he fawfiichit this countrey,’ but ufually climeth upby trees, and as the branchesrife fendeth forth divers {mall rootes into the body, or- branches of the tree whereby it climeth up, or into the chinkes or joynts of ftone walls, whereonit runneth fo ftrongly, faftning them therein, thac it draweth the nourighment out of the tree and therebykilleth itby conifaming the life and moifture thereof, and by choaking it with the abundance of fhadow and moyfture of his branches,and evergreene leaves (which may feeme to be.an ornament thereto when it isleafeleffe, but is inthe end the bane andutter ruin of it) which branches alfo having thusfaltned their rootes into the tree or wall will live thereby upwards, ifanyfhall cut awaythe trunke or body below, S—-=7 divided eachof them againeinto their /pecies or forts, whereof we knowbutfew, for that onely which climeth hpontrees, walls, 8&c,and beareth black berties,and the other barren kind that creepech uponthe ground,yer with the clafping branches will take hold of whatfoeveris next unto it, are belt knowneto ns; the others with white 2, Hedera cerymbofa alba, ’ This Ivie growech in the {ame mariner that the’orher doth, without anygreat diverfitie that hathbeene obfervedin ourtime, andis cheéfly ‘diftinguifhed in that the leaves are thinnet and finer, and ofa lighter greene colour, andthe berries of a whitifh or grayifh colour, and not blacke whentheyare ripe, LLL of Ivie, (befides the Hedera ‘Pinofa whichis Smilax afpera defcribed before =| inthis worke) which were obfervedin their times, partlyin the leaves and flowers, but chiefely in ; the berries, yet make but three principal kinds, a/b¢,aigra and helix, and yet more exactly two forts, #na que inaltum attollitur, and alia que humirepit, which divifionas moft proper, they fub- t ee a bores noflras, Hedera Heli, Barren Lvice akind of'reddith Giumof a ftrange fent which 1s ‘dangerous to be ufed in Phyficke inwardly, being caufticke or burning, but is ued for outward rémedies chiefly, 3, He Ancient Greeke and Latine writers of herbes, as Die/corides, Theophraftus and Pliny have fer downe manyvarieties ; TheTheater of Plots..CH AP, 94.675. rotind on the one fide. It yeeldeth. in the hor countries XCIIII. Hedera, Ivie. a Tris B.5> tee CHar. Trina A S MOGEr A obe s planta Lobetij¢ leafed plane. |