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Show 890 Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. Sot at Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Lis. 2 Lis.2, the foures of Woodbinde : many timesit falleth out, that there is to be found three or foure fay- $ 6 Clematis cruciate Alpina. Virgins Bowerofthe Alps. cersone aboue another,filled with floures,as the firft,which hath caufed it to be called double Ho- q The Place. ny-{uckle,or Woodbinde. Thefe plants do not growwilde in England ; pand, that I'can as yet learne; notwithftandingI haue 2 1 Periclymenum, Woodbinde or Honifuckles. themall in my garden,where they flourith ex. ceedingly. Periclymenumperfoltatum Tralian Woodbinde. The Time, Thefe plants do floure from Augutt to the end of September. q The Names, There is not much morefoundoftheir names than is expreffed in their feuerall titles, now withftanding there hath beene fomewhat faid, as I thinke,by hearefay,but nothing ofcertain. tie: wherefore let thatwhich is fet downe fuffice. We mayin Englifh call the fir, Biting Clematis,or white Clematis, Biting Peruinkle or purging Peruinkle,Ladies Bower, and Virgins Bower. | The Temperature, ' The leafe hereofis biting, and doth mighti- ly blifter,being, as Galen faith, ofa caulticke or burning qualitie: it is hot inthebeginning of the fourth degree. q@ The Vertues. : Dioftorides writeth,thatthe leaues being applied do heale the feurfe and lepry,and that the feed beaten,and the pouder drunke with faire water or with mead, purgeth flegme and choler by the ftoole, Cur. 328. : ae q The Plate. vpon fhrubbes and buthes, oftentimes ‘TheVVoodbinde groweth if woods and hedges,itand vpon thofe things fo t and hard about , that Jeaucth his print e Winding it felfe fo ftraigh : OfWood-binde,or Hony-fuckle. Thé Kindes. Wrapped. e in ae plenty, The double Honifuckle growerh now in my garden, and manyothers likewif Herebediuers forts of Wood-bindes, fomeof them fhrubs with winding falks,hatvry themfelues vntofuchthings as are neere about them. Likewife there be other fons ibe fet foundoutby the later Herbarifts,thatclime notatall,but ftand vpright, the which tha I gq The Time. stipe in Autumne, q The Names. ie ftalktss Oodbinde or Honifuckle climeth vpaloft, hauing long flender woods parted into diuers branches : about which ftand by certaime ne oreene 0” leaues,fet together by couples one right againft another; of a lg athe brat Jour aboue,vnderneath of awhitith greene. The floures fhew themfelues in the tOP|P: ore Outs ches manyinnumber, long,white,fweet of{mell, hollow within ; in one part ani - rapes with certaine threddes growing out of the middle. The fruit is like to Little bunches ° 3 id nee tingsthey . be ripe, wherein is contained {mall hard feed. The root ;iswooddie,an ood Wood 2 This ftrange kind of WWoodbindhathleaues,ftalks,and rootslike vate the comm of cago rele binde or Honifuckle,fauing that neetewntothe place where the flourescome re fling grow through the leaues,like vnto the herbe Thorow-wax, called Perfoliata,which blelittle faucers: out ofwhich broad round leaves proceed faire; beautifull, an os jeand floures, fhining with awhitith purple colour, and fomewhat dafhe with yellowpy or ented ftretched outlike the nofe ofan Elephant,garnifhed within with {mall yellow ee filled and whenthe floures are intheir fourifhing, the leaues and Aoures do refemble fauce® garden offomediligent Her- arifts, - Ma y and [une : thefruit _ Theleaues come forth betimesin the fpring : the floures bud forth in forth amongthe fhrubbie plants. And firft of the common Woodbinde. | The Defcription. qithough not long fince,very rateand hard to be found,exceptin the i cay } Ttiscalledin Greeke weiacuon +, in Latine, Volucrum maius : of ScriboniusLargus, S tue mater:in (pinas :in talian,“inctbofco : in High hOs, Caprifolinm, and Matrifylud :| of {ome, Lilinnt ister ns Ceuits in French, cheures dpammeke avtand Gheptenbl Dutch, Low sin utch,inGeysbladt mille Spanith,Madre(lua} in Englith,V Voodbinde, Honifuekleand Caprifoly. ‘ gq The Temperatures ce ; t paft recouteric to bee Therehath an errour intimes paftgrowne amongft a few, and nowalmof of the leaues of decoétion the is,how errour ich wh vniverfall ailerrour growne cal ed againe,being ons ofthe inflammati the for giuen arerafhly floures, the onifuckles, or the diftilled.wvaterof nei- But contrariwife Hon ifackleis mouth and throte;asthotgh they were binding and cooling. thinne. Foras Galen {aith, both the nor binding ; but hot, and attenuatingor making “ier cold enuate and heat, as if fomewhat too much an VVoodbinde,and alfo the leaues,do fo muchatt do theyat the firft onely pro if a 8 bedrunke,they will caufe thevrine} tobe as ted. as £3 a* ring, bloud,yet 5 G The |