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Show ~1296 Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. more high, like to the laft defcribed, but aitogent er greater. oftenir, betties hereof ae verti wherein efpecially is the difference. + The leaues ofthis are The largeas Bay Icaues, fharpe oin. téd, Steene aboue,and whitith vnderneath, but not hairy, norasfnipt about the edges: the Hocis grow by couples, ofawhitifh purple,or wholly purple : to thefe paires fueceeds but oneberry, larger than any of the former,ofthe bigneffe offloures there commonly little cherry,and of the fame colour, hauing two marks vpon the top therof;where the floures ofa flood. : 7 Periclyneni 3. 4. flores. Ch, Thefloures of the third and fourth. “1297 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. 4 This kind ofvpright Wood. bind groweth vp likewife to the height ofa man.and icl gy The Names. Vptight Wood-binde or Hony-fuckle is called Periclymenum ftans, and Pcritlymenum rettum, dx gpright Wood-binde: ofDodonaus, Xylaftenm : in high-Dutch, Honds Kitten,that is tofay, Cznim Cerafa, or Dog Cherries. The Englith namesare expreffed in their feuerall titles. Itharhbin called Chamacerafus, but nottruly. | The Temperature andVertues, Touching the temperature andvertues of thefe vpright Wood-bindes, we haue no expetience atallour felues, neither haue we learned any thing of others, ‘ DunasEide elle Dwarfe Hony-fuckle. Cuar.10. Of Sene. Senafolys obtufis. Italian Sene. qj The Defcription. Ene bringethforth ftalksa cubit high, fet with diners branches: the Jeaues are long, winged, confifting of many {mall leaues like thofe of Liquorice,or ofbaitatd’Sehe : the floures comeforth of the bottomof the wings, of colour yellow, ftanding vponflender footftalks ; from which after the floures be gone hang forked cods,the fame bowing inwardlike ahalfe-moone,plain andflat, in which are con- tained feeds like to the feeds or kernells of grapes, ofa blackifh colour. The rootis flerder, long, and vnprofitable, which perifheth whenthe leaues are gathered for medicine, and the feeds beripe, and muft be fowne againe the next yeare, euen as we docome. There is another kinde of Sene gtowing in Italy, like the other in each retpe&,fauing that itis greater, and hathnotthat force in purging that the other hath. : q The Place and Time. Thisis planted in Syria and Egypt, alfoin Italy, in Prouince in France,in Languedoc, It hardly groweth in high andlow Germany, heither in England: it profpereth in hot Regions, and.cannot away with cold for that caufeit is in Italy fowne in May, and continueth no Jonget than Autumne: the beft is brought from Alexandria and Egypt, The Arabians were the 5 Tothekindes of Wood-bindes this plant may likewife be referredwhofe pi@urewith this nierue fent vnto Clufiue long finceby that learned Dogtorin phyficke Thomas Penny (0! our London colledge of famous memorie:) itrifeth vpwitha ftalke of afoot higha broadIcaue BERs oneaI ‘ : 575 whereupoa are fet by couples faire right againft another, ribbed with cettaine nerues like firft that foundit out, thofe of Plantaine,; tharpe pointed, éand fomewhat hollowed c in the 1e middie midd! like like $poon-wort on-wort :: fffrom the bofomeofwhichleaues comeforthfinall floures,not feene or deferibed by which commethfortha clufter of redberries,thruft hard together as thofeofAa the Author ron or priefts p Therootis toughandvery {lender, creepingfar abro. ad vnder { the vpper cruft ofthe earth,wherdy itoccupieth muchground, q The Place. Thefe plants are ftrangers in England : they gtowin the woods and mountaines of Switzerland Germany, Sauoy,and other thofe parts tending to the Eaft, Eaft North-Eaft. and Eaft and! South; t i Thauea plant ofthe firftkinde in my garden: the eft as yet Lhaue not feene, and thereforeca! not write foliberally thereofas I could with, ; | The dwarfe Hony-fuckle growes in the maritime parts of Norway and Sweden, & the cou tries thereabour. t j ; | The Time, _ They floure for the moft part when the others do, thatis to fay in May and Iune, and their ir is tipe in September. : q] The Names. ; ThePerfians call it AbalXemer,as Mefuehis copy teacheth : the Apothecaries Seza, by which itwas knowne to C4 Gvarius the Grecian, and to the later Latines : ic is called in Englith, ne, @ The Temperatures e é Sencisofa meane temperature,neither hor nor cold, yet inclining to heate, anddry almoft in “He third degree ; it is ofa purging facultie, and that by the ftoole, in firch fort as it is not much “oudlefomne tomans nature, having withall acertaine binding qualitieywhich it leaueth after the Pureing . , : q The Vertues, iP ¥oideth forth legmaticke and cholericke humors, alfo groffe and melancholike, ifit be hel~ "th fomething tending to that end. : 'Safinsular purging medicine in manydifeafes, fit for all ages and kindes. ; fg. rtgeth without violence or hurt, efpecially if it be tempered with Anife feed or other like smelling things added, or with gentle purgers or lenitiue medicines. It may be giuenin Poder } commonlythe infuf infaG ~)9ut is vic ion thereof is vfed. the rh ; |