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Show 348 Of the Hiftory of Plants. Liz, 2, ri many any Vv. rpe ee BTS 3 g thefe about the edges, with vneuenfharpe wih leaues sicihiicinoneaa come white round flutes made ofonepiece inmannerofabell, fhutting it felfe vp clofe tow ard night, a t res of the great Binde-weed,whereunto it is very like, of a feet {mell, but fo rong, that it offends the fences The fruit followeth round,fometimes ofthe fafhion of anegge, fet about on cuerie part with moft fharpe prickles ; wherein is contained very much feedof the bigneffe of tares,and ofthe fame fathion. Therootis thicke, made of great andfmall ftrings ‘the wholeplant is fowver, be reth his fruit,and perifheth the fame yeare. + There areare fome varieties of this plant,in the colour and doubleneffe of the floures. + I. Stramonium Péregrinum. 2 Stramonium {pinofum, The Apple ofPeru. Thorny Apples of Peru. Of the Hiftorie of Plants, Lr. 2. 349 he fheweth thathorfésate made mad : for Cratenas, whom Theocritus His Scholiaft doth Cite, wri teth, That the plant of Hippomanes hath a fruit full of prickles; as haththe bers. In Englith it maybe called Thorne-apple, orthe Apple of Perit, fruit 6f wilde Cucumis t Thewords of Theocrirus, Eidyll. 2. are thefe; Imwyans ouri6map Spudin, &e, Whichis thus in Englifh: Hippomanes mone st the Arcadians [prings, by which enen all The Colts andagile Atares in mountaines maddofall. Nowinthe Gieeke Scholiaamong {t the Expofitions thereis this : «nix wa, 8C, That is , Crateudl faith, That the plant hath a fruit like the wilde Cucumber, but blacker ; the leaues are like a poppie, but thorny or prickly. Thus I expound thefe words of the Grecke Scholiaft,being pag.5 t.0£ theedition fet forth by Dan. Heinfius, Aun. Dom, 1603. Julins Scaliger blames Theocritus, becaufe he calls Hippomanes wz,a-Plant : but Hein tus, as you may{ee in his notes ypon T,heocritus, pag .i20, probably iudges, that ein this place fignifies nothin g but agua Thing ee Suehas are Curious may haue recourfe to the places quoted, where they mayfinde it more largely handled than isfit for meinthis placeto inGift vpon. There is no plantat this day knowne, i mine opinion,whereto Cratenas his defcription may be more fitly referred; than tothe Papaner(pinofum,orficus infervalis, which we fhall hereafter defcrib e; + The Nature. The whole plantis cold in the fourth degree, and ofa drowfie atid humming qualitie; not infez rior to Mandrake, | The Hertues, The iutyce of Thorne-apples beiledwith hogs greafe to the fartne ofan vnguentor faltie cureth & all inflammations whatfocuer, all manner of burnings or {caldings, as well offire, water, boyling leade, guin-pouder, as that which comes by lightning, and thatin very fhort time, as my felf haue found by my dayly practife, to mygreat credit and profit. The firft experience came from Colchefter, where Miftreffe Lobel a Merchants wife there being moft gtieuotifly burned with lights ning, and not finding eafe or cure in any otherth ing,by bythe report of M'. William Ramme, publique Notari this found helpewhenall hope was patt, e of the faid towne, was perfeatly cured, Theleaues ftamped falland boiled with oyle Oliue vntill the herbes be as it were burnt,then ftrained and fet to the fite againe with fome wax,rof B in,anda little Turpentine, and madeinto a falue, doth moft {peedily cure old vicers, new and freth wounds,vlcers vpon the glandulous part oftheyard, and otherfores of hard curation, q Cuar. 63. OfLitter-fweet, or Wooddy Nightfhade. Q The Place; 1 Thisplant israre and ftrangeas yet in England :I receiuedfeeds thereof from ohn me Paris,an excellent Herbarift ; whichdid grow and bare floures,but perifhed beforethefruit cal! toripeneffe. Ves . : 2 The Thorne-apple was brought in feed from Conftantinople by the right honourarable the Lord Edward Zouch,and giuen ynto me,andbeareth fruit and Tipe feed. @ The Time, Thefirft is tobe fowen inabed ofhorfe-dung, as we docucumbers and Muske-melons. The other may be fowen in Marchor Aprill,as other feedsare, @ The Names. Jumfi Thefir of thefe Thorne-apples may be called in Latine, stramonia, and Pomum, or Mali te nofim : of fome, Corona regia, and Melofpiaum : The Grecians ofour time nameit sendaxxay, OFi ie Sewinivrsin ; aS though they fhould fay,a nut ftuffing, and caufing drowfineffe and difquiet theltalians, Paracoculi : it feemeth to Valerius Cordus tobe Hyofcyamus Peruvianus, Ot Henbat2_of Peru: Cardamis doubteth whetherit fhouldbe inferted amongthe Night-fhades asa kindet e wl of :ofMatthiolus and others itis thought tobe Nux methel: Serapio,cap.375 faith,That Nux . As like vnto Nux vomica 3 the feed whereofis like that ofMandrake: the huske is rough of which prickles ; the tafte pleafing and ftrong qualitie thereof is cold in the fourth degree. V i defeription agreeth herewith, exceptin: the the formeor fhape it fhould haue with Nux gti cle Siillara lulpecteth it to be Hippomaneswhich Theocritus mentioneth, wherewithin bis fecom a ; | The Defcription. — Itter-fweet bringeth forth woodc yftalkes as doth the Vine,partedinto many flend er cree ing’ s and fhrubs next vntoit, The barke ofthe oldeit ftalkes are rough and whiti(h, of the colour ofathes, with the outward rinde of a bright greene colous, butt - yonger branchesar unginita {pongie pith, itis clad withlonglea e greene as are the leaues : the wood brittlehaues, {nooth, fharpe pointed, leffer than thofe of the Binde-weed. At the lower part ofthe fame leafe like vnto' twoeares. The floures be {mmall, leaues doth growoneither fide one {mall or leffer and fomewhat cluftered together,confifting of fiue little leaues apiece, ofa perfeé blewcolour , with acertaine pricke or yellowpointall dle: which being paft,there do come in the midin place faire berries,more long than round,atthe firft green, butveryred when they beripe ; of a fiveet tafteat the firft, butafter vety vnpleafant, ofaftrong {aour, growing tocerherin clufters like burnifhedcor branches, by which it climeth andtaketh hold of hedge OF firings, T haue foundanother fort which Bringeth forth tals inthe middlein other tefpea s agreei ; al. The rootis of 3 meane bigneffe, andfull moft pleafant white floures with yellow poin- ng with the former. @ The Place. Bitter-fvect doth grow in moift places about ditches, riuersyand hedges, almoft eutery ve Ie |