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Show Eos > D 12.94 ioe Lib. 3. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. ~~OFthe Hiftory of Planes: The diftilled water of the floures of Rofemarie being drunkeat morning and evening firft and lafttaketh away the ftench of the mouth and breath, and makethit very {weet,ifthere be added thereto , to fteep orinfufe for certaine daies, a few Cloues, Mace;Cinnamon, anda little Anni. feed. The Arabians and other Phyfitions fucecedingdo write, that Rofemarie comforteth the brain the memorie,the inward fenfes,and reftoreth fpeech vnto themthatare poffeffed with the dumbe palfie, efpecially the conferue made of the floures and fugar,or any other way confe@ed with {y. gar,being taken euery day fafting. The Arabians,as Serapio witneffeth,giue thefe properties to Rofemarie : it heateth, fay they, is ’ ~ offubrill patts,is good for the cold rheumewhichfalleth from thebraine, driueth away windines ? prouoketh vrine,and openeth the ftoppings of the liuer and milt. Tragus writeth that Rofemarie is {pice in the Germane Kitchins,and other cold countries, Fur. ther,he faith,that the wine boiled with Rofemarie,and taken ofwomentroubled with the mother orthe whites, helpeth them, the ratherif they faft three or foure houresafter. ‘ The floures made vp into plates with fugarafter the manner of Sugar Rofet and eaten, comfort the heart,and make it merty,quicken the fpirits,and make them morelively. The oile of Rofemarie chimically drawne,comforteth the cold,weake and feeble braine in molt wonderfull maner. The people of Thuringia do vfe the wilde Rofemarie to prouoke thedefired fickneffe. Thofe of Marchia vfc to put it into their drinke the fooner to maketheir clients drunke,and alfo do put it into chefts and prefles among clothes,to preferue them from mothesorother vermine: a Ch + The vertues inthetwo laft places properly belong to theRofmarintim fyliteftre of Matthiolw 2 which isthe Chamepeuce ofCordus, ofthe foregoing Chapter,bythe nameof Ciftus LedumSilkfiacums 12.95 q The Deéfiription. 1 His ftrange kinde of Hony-fuckle, foufd in the woods of Sauoy,reprefents yntovs that i fhrub or hedge-buth called Corausfemina, the Dog-berry tree,or Pricke-timber tree, tuning leaues and brancheslike the common Wood-binde, fauing that this doth not clamberor cymbeas the others do, but contrariwife groweth vpright, without leaning to one fide or other, branches, by ikea {mall tree or hedge-buth : the floures grow vpon the tender {prayes or twiggie leffer, and of couples,not valike in fhapeand colour to the common Wood-binde,but altogether swhitecolour, hauing within the fame manyhairy chiueslike the othet of his kinde after comered berries ioyned together by couples: the root is tough and wooddy. which » Theftalkes of the fecond be oftentimes ofa meane thickneffe, the wooddyfubftanee fom- what whitifh and foft: the branches be round, and couered with a whitith barke, notwithftanding inthe beginning whenthe fprayes be yongthey are fomewhatreddith. The leaves be long,like hoe of the common Hony-fucklé, foft, and of a white greene : on the lower fide they bewhiter, adalittle hairy: rhe floures be Jéffer than any of the Wood-bindes,but yet of the fame fafhion, adofawhitith colour, ioyned together by couples vpon feuerall flender foot-ftalkes, like little wilde Cherries, ofa redcolour, the oneleffer oftentimes than the other, 3 Pariclymennmrectum fractu caruleo. Vpright Wood-binde withblewberries. 4. Periclymenum rectumfrutterubro. Cherry WWood-binde, i 11.P!plat andisis defcribed inthe ; Cuar. 9. OfVpright Wood-binde. 1 Periclymenumesrectum S abaudicum. Sauoy Honifuckles. 2 Periclymeoum rectum Gtrmanicom: Germane Honifuckles, 3. This ftrangekindeof Wood-binde,which (urolvs Clufivs ath fet forthinhis Pannonicke Uations,tifeth vp oftentimes to the height ofa man,euenas the fortier doth ; which dinides and gapeth in fun€into many branches, couered with a rough blacke barke, that choppeth branches ase of awhitith greene colour , couered sckhtsas the barke of the Oke. .The tender one 4hp woollyhairineffe, or an ouerworne colour, whereupon dogrowleaues fet byeouples grow, by jal the other, like vnto the commion Wood-binde,of a drying bitter tafte: the floures mainkewile,ot awhitifhcolour. The fruit fucceedeth,erowing like little ee and Wnefoot-ftalke, of a bright and fhining blew colour; which being bruifed , doe ote the a SOfareddifh colour,ahd they are of a fharpe winie tafte, and containc 0 themmahy fmalk a “Mieeds. The root iswooddy,difperfingit felfe farabroad, A This |