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Show THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE HISTORTIE OF PLA NTs. x The defcription, He white Pipe groweth like an hedgetree, or bufhie fhrub: fromthe roote whereofarifs rich in fhort time groweto be equall with the olde ftocke, wherebyin reafeth ynto infinite numbers, like the common Englith Prim orPriuet, isakinde,if we confider enety circumftance. The branches are couered with e timber is white, with fomepith or {pungie matter in the middlelike Elder, hefe little branches are garnifhedwith fmallcrumpled leaues,ofthe fhape 1¢s,and verylike in forme:among which come foorth the flowers gtowf fower {mall leaues of a white colour, and of apleafant {weetefnell: butin y ate too fweete, troubling and molefting the headin very {trange manner, once -rs,and laid them in my chamber window,which f{melled more ftrongly afterthey v howers, with fiich a pontickeand ynacquaintedfauor, that they awakedme ,fo thar could not take anyreft vnull hadcaft themout of my chamber. Whenthe hens Glans oneuentaria;which the Greciansname Airabes vapetixss, from which Zilach d } h doth ver Zn cn at e es fare ne much differ: among other differences itis very apparant,that Litlach bringeth foorth e ELY non t 8 h ; V~ "2 } i af f (eter Marhiolus doth falfly. piéture it onely a little cod, the feedéwheteos hathinitinc Btie a ed . =, ‘ A ae 9 iein eral Ole ata : Chapter fav va his hefigure whereof we haue thought Thetig pntsgood toini ettin this Chapter;foi want ofa more contienient roome, % The temperature and vertyes. , ic oncerning ; gthe es j our ; aj faculties Of of thefe thrubs; tieithet vfe and faculties we OfWidow Wayle,or Spurge Oline. Chamelea'Avabum Tricoccos. Widow Wayle. followeth the fruit, whichis fmall,curled, andas it werecompactof many little folds broad towards the vpper part,and natrowtowards the ftalke ,and blacke whenitistipe, wherein is containeda flenderandlong fede. Theroote hereof {preadethit felfe abroad inthe ground,after the manner of the rootes offuch fhrubbie trees. 2 Theblew Pipe growethlikewife in manner ofafinal hedge tree with many fhootestifing from cubits high. The ftalk is ofa woody fub. ftance, branched with many{mal twics ful of little leaues like Prinet, but fnallet and lace ker:on the ends whereofgrowe finallpale yellowe flowers;which being paft,there ficceedeth a three corned berrie like the Tithymales, for which caufe it was called Tyscoccos, thatis, three berried Chy- melea: thefe berries are greenatthefirlt,red afterward, and browne when they be withered, and containe in thet an oylie fatneffe like that of the Oliues,being ofa fharpe and biting tafte, and that |.but not foftrong as the former. Whenthefe flowers be gone, there fucceede flat cods and fon at long,which being ripe are ofa light colour, with a thinmembrane orfilme in the midit, whereinare {eedes almoft fower fquare,narrowand ruddie, 3 BalanusMyrepficafine Glans unguentaria. The oylic Acome. : 3 + % Thedefeription. doth burne the mouth, as do both the leaues and rinde.The roote is hard and woodie. # The place. Itis founde in moft vntilled grounds of Italie, and Languedocke in Fraunce, inroughand defare re 3 Glans unguentaria orthe oilie Acorn is theft of atreelike Tamariske, of the bignefle of a Hat It places. haueit growingin my garden, nut : outof thekernell whereof, no othervife that % Thetim Itis alway greene:the feede is ripe in Autumne, out of bitter Almonds,is preffed an ollie ue is viedin precious ointments,as Dioftorides faith, pel a ther is it in ourtime reiected: for the oyle hereof ed with fweete odors, ferueth toperfume glouesan other things. j TIhefe trees growenot ee wilde I England,buel oehave them growing in my pe ATELY greatp The time. O They flower in Aprill and May, but a5 ee haue notborne any fiuite inmy earns Italie and Spaine their fruitis ripe 1 Sepiemp % The manese is The later Phifitions call the firlt Syringe ather | 1. Dfau- flee overy®, that is to faysa Pipe,bicaule the ches thereof, whenthe pith is center ewithd likea Pipe. Itis alfo many times furnamed Candida or white; or Syringe candidofore, ee a white flower, bicaufe it fhould differ fromLillach, whichis fometimes named Sri lew Pipe: in Englifh White Pipe. Lakh cae BlewPipe,the later phifitions,as we hauefaid,do name it Z4ach,orLilac, oF . me1 syritgaArabia nd th éea,or blewPipe, moft do expound the word Lidach, and callit Ben : Sarapio his a % The defeription: \V the roote like the former as our common Priuet doth,wherofit is akinde,The branches haue fome eete fauour andfj Chap.s8. Idow Wayleisa’ fmalt thrub aboutwo {mall quantitie ofpith in the middle of the wood,andare couered witha darke black greenith barke ortinde. The leaues are exceeding greene and crumpledor turned vp like the brims of an hat,in, fhape verylike vntothe leaues of the Poplar tree: among which come the flowers ofan exceeding faire blewe colour, compactof many {mall flowers , in the forme of a bunchof gtapes, cache flower isin thewlike thofe of /aleriana rubra Dodonai, confifting of fower parts likea littleftar, of anexceed fehies hauie found out any thingnorlearnedought of ‘others. % The names The Grecians call it y« , as though they fhould fay lowe or fhort Oliuetree : the Latines Oleago and Oleaftellus, and likewife Crtocacium: it is alfo named of diners O/uella, as Mathews Sylwaticus faith: itis called in Englifh Widow Wayle guia factt viduds. ” The frnitis namedof diuers xéxxos utdeos: in La tides th tine Coccus cuidius, but heis a aya Surg s nameththefruit of Spurge Oliue Coccus cnidins: ioe and Serapioca le ae io Me Mezereon : vader which name notwithftanding they hauealfo i nee a Carlines, and fo hane they confounded Chamelea, or Spurge Oliue with the Catewife 7 bymalea or Spurge Flaxe. s&s Thetempirature, 4 Bot the leaues and fruit of Spurge Oliue, as wehaue faid, are of a butning and extreme hot ; Metature, The vertues. 3 The ler, efpecially j t: aken in pils, fothartwo A ef ome:and choler, jofeori es, purge both flezme ath Diofeorid Wo faith ofsates, Meade or with Meade pils with - wp intointo plls of Spurge Olive, andmadevp Midi otOodbe: mixed with one ted 5 7 mele notin :che belly,but as many asbe takenvare voiaee = ater,They whole CMs |