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Show 1152 THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE in verieveri many.places, efpeciallyin Kent i , I haue founde them Englifl in growing Thofe off our. Englith 1 . ; 1c ¢ t ty 1 Ciffusledon t. Clusi 4S vpon the chalkie banks about Graues ende ,Southfleete, andfor the moft pare all che way from thence vito Canterburie and Douer, LEGO, SPUNITE CL the firlt Cis bri, ftus bri % The time They flower from Tuly to the end of Augutt. * The NATE« Treeuscalleth Dwarffe Ciftus inthe high Dutch toong Heppett fopes in Latine cratja Diis but there is another herbecalled alfo of the later Herbariftes Gratiola: Valerius Cordushamethit Helianthemum,an4d Solis flos,or Sunne flower: of Clufius Chameaciftus,or Dwarfte Ciftus, Pliny writeth, that Hediamthe eroweth inthe « hampion countrey Temifcyrain Pontus, and in the mountaines ofCilici he faith further, that the wife menofthole coun 1¢ kings of Perfia do int i¢of Dates , that they their bodies heerewith, boiled with lionsfat,a little Safmay feeme faire and beautifull ; arid therefore hauethey cal- ew, or the beautie of the Sunne; which if it bethe Sunne flower, yet thereis ano1ame , but which may be taken forthe right it is hard co tell (buethat experi- theroft ence teacheth vs ) feeing Pimie is fo breefe: Mathiolus faith, that He/iamthemum is taken of fome tobe Panaces Chironium,ot Chirons All-heale :but it isnothi iglikelic as we hauefaide, %& The temperature, A The faculties and temperature are referied to the kindes of Ciftus, Chéronaffirmeth thatit he leth wounds,ftancheth bloud,andftoppeth the {pitting of bloud,the bloudie fixe, andall otherit fues of bloud. B Thefame boiled inwine healeth vicers in the mouth andprinie patts, if they bewahedtherewithitobe briefe,itioineth togitherandftren th; which things do plainly and euidently thew thatit isnot onelyliketo Ciftus and Ledon in forme, butin vertues and faculties alfos and there fore itis manifeft,that it is a certaine wilde kinde of Ciftus and Ledon, Of Cistus, Ledon, and Ladanum. .Chap.s. io ae %& The kindes. 7T Here be diuers forts ofCiftus , whereof thar gummie matteris gatheredcalledin fhops iq danumyandEabdanum,but voproperly, } % The defeription. x ° ° - . . -) hioher. hae ener, He \ Iftus Ledonisalittle hrub, growing to theheight of aaman,andfomtimes aa ith ; 5 D “A pon do branches, couered with a blackith barke: whereuponé , anyharde woodie : y 3 “ 1 n ; ol ant s fetrogither by couples,oner ht againft anotherlike ynto wings gathereda¢ I 1 vpperfides , and whitifh a 1¢ on the vndern ; whereonis : Ph tor through fhining liquor, ofa veric hot feete finell, which k ds ichi psiscalled Lepdanum: the flowers grow a 2 offiue white leaues everyone decked 01 beautfied pots tendingto blacknes,hauing in the middle ve } 1¢ Rofe: after come the knaps or feede veffels,fullot , it being dried,groweth fomewhat whitifh and of a plealant® es. : i ‘ "0! are long, ofan hedge buths the branches wife to the height c f the other ot on do groweleaues greener then anyof the ' fafo : es 2 + a owardwinterto befomwhatien nit aeforme whereofhe orauer Hat!hathomit precedents the the grauer bas eaues like the Poplar. wires F PLANT? “ANTS, 2 Cistusledon 2,07; Thefec eco ndg ond um C oun |