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Show ——— 1274, Lin.3, Ofthe Hifterie of Plants. Lis. 3. q The Names, The Brambleis called in Greeke eo:i French,Rovges ,Loi Duyts Brelmers : in Latine,Rubss,and Sentis,and Vepres, as Owid writeth in his firft booke of Metamorphofis, Aut Lepori qui vepre latens hoftilia cernit Oracanum, Orto th’ Hare, thatvnder Bramble clofely lying, {pies The hoftile mouthes of Dogs. Ofdiuersit is called Cyvosbatus, but not properly ; for (ynosbates is the wild Rofe, aswe hauewrit. ten: in high-Dutch, gemen : in low-Dutch, Beeewmen sin French, Rowce : in Italian, GarZa in Englifh,Bramblebuth, and Black-berry buth. Thefruit is named in Latine Morum rubi sand as Fuchfiws thinketh, Vacininm, but not properly: in fhops, Mora Bati ; and in {uch fhopsas are more barbarous, Mora Bai: in Enelith , Blacke- berries. The Rafpis is called in Greeke émiaje: in Latine, Rubus Ideus, of the mountaine Ida on which it groweth : in Englifh, Rafpis, Framboife, and Hinde-berry. @ The Temperature and Vertues. A The yong budsor tender tops ofthe Bramble buth, thefloures,the leaues,and the vnripefruicr, OF the Hiftory ot Plants. _ There groweth vp fometimes vnder the fhrub hard to the roots,a certaineexcrefcence or hypocif,whichis thicke, fat, groffe,full of inyce, without leaues, wholly confitting oftmany lisrle cayellowith tree;5 of a ye xes, as do thofe of fsorboxes, q Henbane : or of; the Pomegranat 8 | red: colour in onee tinde, and in another white, and in certaine other greeneorgraffic, as Diofcorides faith. @| The Defcription. He firft kinde ofCéftus growethvp like a fmall buthor fhrub, of awooddyfubftance, three or foure cubits high,garnifhed with many{mall and brittle branches,fet full of crumpled or rugged leaues very like vito Sage leaues;at the top of the branches come fluresofa purplecolour,in fhape like vntoa fingle Brier Rofe, hauing leaues fomwhat wrinkled likeacloath new dried before it be fmoothed, and inthe midft afew yellow chines or thrums : the flours for the moft part do perifh and fall away before noone,and neuerceafe Aouring in fuchmaresfrom the moneth of May vntothe beginning of September, at whichtimethefeedis ripe, be- ingofareddifh colour, and is contained in an hard hairie huske not much vnlike the husk of Henbane, 1 Ciflus mas anguftifolius . Me ‘ Themale Holly Rofe. 2 Ciftus mas cum Fypociftide, The male Holly i Rofe with his : excrefeence. do very much dry and binde withall : being chewed they take awaythe heate and inflammationof the mouth, and almondsofthe throat: they ftay the bloudy flix, and otherfluxes,and all maner of B c D bleedings: ofthe fameforce is their deco@ion,witha little honey added. Theyheale the eyes that hang out, hard knotsin the fundament, and ftay the hemorthoids,if the leaues be layd thereunto. The iuyce whichis preffed out ofthe ftalks,leaues,and vnripe berriesand madehard inthe Sun, is more effeGuall forall thofe things. The ripefruit is fiveet, and containeth in it much inyce ofatemperate heate,thereforeit is not vnpleafant to be eaten, It hathalfo a certaine kinde ofaftriG@ion or binding qualitie. / E Itis likewife for that caufe wholfomefor the ftomack,andif a man eattoolargely therof,aith F drieth Galen, he thall haue the head-ache: butbeing dried whileft it is yet vnripe it bindeth and more thanthe ripefruit. G H I K : : The root befides that it is binding containeth in it muchthin fubfance, by reafon whereof it wafteth awaythe ftone in the kidniesfaith Galen. : Pliny writeth,that the berries and floures do prouoke vrine,and thatthe decoétion ofthemia wine isa prefent remedie againft the ftone. The leaues of the Bramble boiled inwater;, with honey, allum, and a little white wine added thereto, make a moft excellent lotion or wafhing waterto heale the fores in the mouth,thepuiue 2 parts ofman or woman, andthe fame decoétionfaftneththe'teeth. fo muchbinThe Rafpis is thought tobe like the Bramble in temperature and vertues, but not ding or drying. The Rafpis,faith Dio/torides, performeth chofe things whichthe Brambledoth. Thefruit is good tobe giuento thofe that haueweake and queafie ftomacks, Cuar.s5. Of Holly Rofes, or Ciftus. @ The Kindes. kinde ofRofe : the old Writers haue made wo lis bea to takenofdiuers I/tas hath been thereof, male and female; andlikewifea third fort,whichis called Ledwm : the latet Her rifts haue difcouered diuers more,as fhall be declared. | 4 generall Defiription, wherein all theforts ofCiftus are comprifed. Iftus and hiskindes are wooddy fhrubs full of branches, of the height oftwo or wee C fome haue broadleaues, others rough, vncuen, wrinkled, fomewhat downy,and ae i ofthe _leaues of Sage ; although fome have the leaues of Rofemary,others the forme . eS ed Poplar tree: the floures grow on the tops of the branches, like vnto the wild Rofe,yet ‘I colour quickly fade,perifh, and fall away : thofe ofthe maleate moft ofa reddifh blewor eee sich i and ofthe female white: iri their places comevp little heads or knops fomwhat roun¢, 1! contained {mall feed ; the roots ofthem all are wooddy. mint, fecond forrofCiftus, being anotherkind ofthe male Ciffus,which Pena calls Ciffus mas tine ae 8 like vnto theformer,but that ftomthe root ofthis kinde there commerha cer white te orout-growing, whichisfometimesyellow, fometimes greene, and fomerimes of, WHtchis drawne by an artificiall extraGion acertaine inyce called im fhops Hypo a. yea hath many wooddy ftalks diuided into divers brittle branches ofa ruf Me colour:eo Ogrow rough leaues fomewhatcutor toothed.on the edges,and ofan ouer- Acllent brist, ie Hloures growon the tops of the branches,in forme ofa Muske Rofe, but ofan the roce o purple colour : after which come round knops, wherein is contained {mal reddith ¢ Then tough and wooddy, _ ; . tesdine Ourth fort ofci/us hath diuers wooddy branches, whereon are fet, thicke thruft roget + ; Ee ‘ot and a ml leaues narrowlike thofe ofWinter Sauorie,butofan ouerwornetuffet colour:the Oures are like the precedent. |
