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Show a6 (OtthelitoryofRlans)Lag tobe eaten, fuchas Oxyacanthus or the Hawthorne bringeth notforth, whercip he plainely made, difference, oxyacanthathe Barbery bufh,and Oxyacanthus the Hawthornestrce, ‘ ° Diofcorides bath not made mention of this Thorne; for that which he calleth Oxyacanthainthe Foeminine gender,is Galens Oxyacanthus inthe Ma{culine gender. 7 Anicen {eemeth to containe both thefe fhrubs vnder the name ofCAmyrd ergsbut we knowthey are neitherof affinitie or neighbourhood,although they be borhprickly. jt The fhrubit {elfe is called in fhops Barbaries, of the corrupted name CAmyrheris, ofthe later writers Crefpinus : in Italian,Cre/pimo in Spanith, E/pino de mainelas - in high Dutch, Daitlelberr: in low Dutch,Saufeboomt: in French, £/pine vinette-and thereupon by a Latine name,Spiniuint LB.3. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. 1324 : Spaine, Italy, or any hot Region. ahis tree is garnifhed with many large branches befet with leaves like the Peare tree, or rather like the Aller leafe, ofa darke greene colour aboue, and of a white colour vnderneath : among thefe leaues come forth tufts of white floures,very like vato the Hawthorne floures, but bigger: after which fucceed fmall red berries,like the berries ofthe Hawthome,and in tafte like the Neapolitan Medlar : the temperature andfaculties whereofare not yet knowne, 2 AriaTheophrafti. Cumberland Haw-thorne. 1 Oxyacanthus, The Haw-thornetree. Spina acida,and Oxyacantha Galeni. t In Englith,a Barbery buth,or Piprige I'xce,according toD’, Turner. + Yi The: Temperature. The leanes and berries of this thorne are cold and dry inthe fecond degree : and as Galen allo affirmeth,they are of thin parts,and hauea certaine cutting qualitie. q The Vertues, Theleaues are vfed of divers to feafon meate with, and in ftead ofa fallad, as be thofeof Sor. relf. The decoftion thereof is goodageinft hor burnings and cholericke agues : irallaieth the heate of the bloud temperech the ouermuchheateof the liver, The fruire or bers goodfor the fame things, and bealfo profitable forhot laskes, and for the bloudy flixe,and they {tayall manneroffuperfuous bleedings. Thegreene leaues of the Barbery buth ftamped, and made intofawce,as that made of Sorrell, called greene fauce, doth coole hot ftomackes, and thofe that atevexed with hot burning agues, and procureth appetite. The conferue made ofthe fruite and fugar performethall thofe things befcre remembred,bt with betterforce and fucceffe. Theroots ofthe tree fteeped for certaine daies together in ftrong lie, made with athes ofthe ath-tree,and the haire often moiftned therewith, makethit yellow. | The Kindes, Here be two forts ofthe white Thorn Trees defcribed of the later writers,on e very common moft parts of En3Jand: there is anothervery rare, and not found in Enrope, exceptin fome few rare gardens of Germanie which differeth not from our common Hawthorne,faving that te fruichere of is as yellow as Sattron:we hauinthe Weft of England one growing ata place Glattenburie, which bringerh forth his floures about Chriftmas, by the report ofdiuers ofcalle: 8° on haue feen the fame ; but my felfe haue notfeen it; and therefore leaucit to bebett examined. a] The Defcription, I He white Thorneis a great fhrub growing oftentimes tothe height ofthe Peat the trunke or body is great: the boughes and branches hard and w ooddy,fets long fharpe rhornes : the leaues be. broad,cut with deepe gathes into diners ie fmooth,and ofa gliftering greene colour; the floures grow vponfpokic rundlesofpleafant f{mell, fometimes white,and often dafht ouer with ‘a light wath ofpurple; which hath 2 fome tothinke fomedifferenceinthe plants:after which comethe fruit,being round berries atthe firftand red when they be ripe ; wherein is found a foft fweer pulpe, and certaine ™ feed : the root growethdeepein the ground, ofa hard wooddy fubftatice. ‘p 2 The fecond and third haue beentouched in the firft title,norwithftanding I hauet tnotvnfit to infertin thisplaceaplant perticipating with che Hawthorne in floures a6 and with the Seruice tree in leaues,and not vnlikein fruit alfo. sn 1 heophraftus hath{et forth this tree vnder the nameof W4ria; which groweth vato ofa fnall tree, delighting to growin our fhadowie woods of Cumberland and Weftmeta nies wie ee fog ome it is to be found in great quantitie:butse ex of the North country,where many Other places : } pa @ ThePlace. : } The Haw-thorne growethin woods and in hedgesneerevato high-waiesalmoft euery where, Thefecond isa ftrangerin Eng land. The laft groweth at Glaftenbury Abbey,asitis credibly réportedvntome. + The Avia growet h vpon Hampfted heath, and in manyplaces ofthe Weft af England, + a The Time. : The fir and fecond floure in May ; whereupon many do call the tree it felfe the May-buth,as a hiefetoken ofthe comming in of May :the leaues comefortha little fooner: the fruit is ripe in the beginning of September, and is a food for birds in Winter. ae a q The Names, and Gale in Ditfiwides deferibeth this fhrub, and namethit’oz4es, inthe foeminine gender: tisbooke of the Facultics of fimple medicines, ‘ozo, In the mafculine gender: ee faithhe,isa tree, and is like to the wilde Peare tree in forme, and the vertues not valle . Oxyectatha, Diofeorides writcth thus: Iris atree like to the wild Pearetree,very full oft ea ce trepio callethit CAmyrberis : and fome,faith Diofcorides would haue it called rey, but the ree Pp>feemeth to belong tothe yellow Haw-thorne: it is Sai + beeoe : ENEbein Italian, Bagaia : in Spanith, Pirlitero : in French, Aue-epme »¥-Dutch MAWhicedronefewchore tree; and ofteme Londoners, May-buth. + Leia not the oxy. “athe of the Greekes, butthat whichis called Pyracantha, as thall be aes wat dias € fecond is thoughtto be the 47ia of Theophrafius, and fo Lobel and fl etyeas feng of p Me, as Bellonius, Géfuer,and Clafins, refer itto the Sorbus, and that notvn tly :in Kingdomic theycall ica white Beame tree, ¢ q The rette g " 5 Cua rp, 24. Of the white Thorne, or Hawthorne Tree. NSOK Thebarke ofthe rootsis alfo vied in medicines for the iaundi(e,aad that withgood fic. i + eeffe, ¢ |