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Show a | "1466 Cuar 51. Theatrum Botanicam. T ripe 16, or finelinnen, togive the betterfenc. The oyle that ismadeof the fowers by infolation is good for arly cold part of the body to warmeit,and to cafe the paihes of the crampe,andftitching in the fides, Cuap. Li, The Theater ofPlants, Trepe 16, 3. Lilac feu Syringe flore ceraleo, ) Cwar52, 3+ Syringa Perfica five Lilzefoliys imcifis Pericam,lafminum Perficam diftum, ‘The blew Perfian Jafmine or Pipe tree. ‘The blew Pipe trec orLilac, ENS BGs x Polemoninm five Trifolinmfraticans vel Iafminum lucenm vulgare, DL enS e Shrub Trefoile or the ordinary yellow Iafmine. © Lthongh asI faid inthe Chapter before,this plant is not ofthe Iafmines, yet bécaufe it bath by time ob- Whe Ro mS tained thatname, and that the flowers thereofin forme refemble the white Iafminc, I thought it good tojoyne it nextunto them, becaufeI would not put it into their Chapter. Ic fpreadeth white rootes inthe ground farre about, rifing up in {undry places with manytall and {lender twiggy branches,ercen at the firft, but after ofa darke grayifh colour,whereonare Polemonium five Trifoliam jraticans vel 1afesinum fet at feverall diftances,three {mall darke greene leaves to~ satewm vulgare. Shrubbe Trefoile, or the gether oncvery flalke, the end leafe being the biggeft : at Seo INS KW LZLI A k yN ordinary yellow Iafmine, the joynts withthe leaves come forth the flowers, each fingly by it elfe mpona ftalke which are long and hollow, yy ending in five leaves ufually, yct fometimesinfixe, very like untothe flowers of the white Ia{mine but yellow,and thereuponit was calleda yellow la{mine,which beingpaift, Dr» there follow other roundblacke fhining berries of the big \t ZN nefle of a great Peafe or bigger,full of a purplith juyce which will colour onesfingers that fhall bruife them. The Place and Time, This groweth plentifully about AZompelier, and abideth well any where in our Country: itfowreth in Z#/y, bur WK ff \\A en [eave ESA D SS WY LP : DR wefeidomefee ripe fruite the-eon. The Names, Itis called Polemoninm Monsgfelienfium by Gefner, Lobel, Camerative and Lugdunenfis and Trifoliumfruticans by Do- donevs and Tabermontanis, whoalfo calleth it Reta bacciFera five trifolia, and Ge{ner Rutacapraria Gallorum AfonLpelenfium, and by fome La(minum lutenm Ttalicum, yer Ni = Colmna callech it, Lafmini |pecies trifolia non videtur ad Polemonium accedere, Bcfler in horto Eyfietenfi, fheweth S i K&S i)) f> yay Ga N § one with foureleaves, that are greener, and not fo fharpe pointed, and Bashinus Ia/minum lutenmy ulgo diflum,bace ciferum, who alfo giveth this note of it, that at AZompeli= erit is often found but with one leafe alone upona ftalke, although in Gardens it hach three. It is very donb: full whether it thonld be the Polemoninm of Diofcorides or no, for you have here the judgement ot Columna, non videtur ad Polemonium accedere, although Lobel wou'd rake it agree inall things, Some would makeit therefore 2 Ctifus, bac it agreehchereto in nothing, but in having threeleaves together. Wecannotlearne what /talian,French, or Dutch mameithath, bucin Englifh it maybe called Shrubbe Tre- foile,accordirg tothe Laine, but Gerard faith, itis called Make bare,yet I know not where nor by whom: it is ufu- ally called now adaies the yellow lafmine from thelikeneffe ofthe howers. The Vertnes. We know notof any knowne propertyit hath for certaine,and thereforé to give youths particular Vertués of Polemonivm,when as peradventure not any one can belong thereunto,werencedeleffe, and che ground of a great etrour. Cuar, LIL, Syringa, The Pipe treé. Sy Lthongh I have fhewedyou thefe five forts of Pipe trees in my formér Booke, yet Ithinkeitnot 3Y}| unfit to prefent you withthem againe here, and give youa full defcription of that fore that was de} fective there, 1, Lilac Matthiolifive Syringalore ceruleo, The blew Pipe treeorLilac. sas §©TheblewPipe tree rifeth fometimesto be as great as a meane apple, yet ufually it groweth nothing fo great, having oftentimes fuckers rifing from the roote, the younger branches being covered witha gtayith greene barke, and theelder with adarker, having within them pith like the Elder, with two faire broad, {mooth deepe greene leaves, {mall pointed at the ends, fet at every joynt, which are fome diftance ene from another, many of them folding the leaves inwards, {tanding on long footeftalkes : at che roppes of many of the branches comeforth many long hollow blewith purple howers, ending in five leaves, in along tuftt gether, i ‘i trees Pipeto vehite fingle lalesi paia ; Phe , Syringa Arabica flore duplict, ; The double white Pipe use. 1467 |