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Show 132.4 siltsaE Of the Hittorie of Plants, They ate vied in broths in ftead of Veriuice, which maketh the broth not onely pleafantro rhe tft, butis great] profitable to fuch as are troubled witha hor bur ning ague. : Crap, 22. fieynoutith nothing or very little: they alfo ftay the belly, and ftench bleedings, ti fo the menfes, or monethly fickenes,except they happen to be taken into acold ftoduck then do they not helpe, but rather clog or trouble the fame by fome manner of flix. ‘@ The Kindes, per be diversforts ofthe Goofe-betries ; fomegreater, others leffe: fome roundotherslong and fomeof a,red.colour:: the figure ofone hall ferue for the reft. Lwillnot much infift vpon diuerfities of fruits, becaufe my kinde friend M*. rohn Parkinfin hath fufficiently in his late Worke difcourfed vponthat fubied ; onely becaufe I judge manywi be defirous to knowtheir names, and where to get them,I will briefely name the chicfe varieti« ourKingdomeaffords ; and fuchas aré defirous of them mayfinde them with M*. Zohn ctillen ji uing in Old-fireet. Theforts of Goofe-berries are thefe : the Jong greene, the great yellowith; the blew,the grea Vea Crifpa. Theinice of the greene Goofeberries cooleth all inflammatigns, Eryfipelas, and Saint AnthoCa pronoke appetite,and coole the vehement heate of the ftomacke and liuer, Theyoung and tender leaues eaten raw in a fallad, prouoke vrine, and driue forth the ftone and grauell. Cuar. 23. Of Barberries. | The Defiription. He Goofe-berry buth isa thrub of thie or foure cubits high,fet thicke with mo! fharpe prickles : ir is likewife full of branches, flender,wooddy, andprickly :where on doe grow round Jeaues cut with deepe g:thes into diuers parts like thofe of the Vine, of a very greene colour: tlic Houres be veryfinal, ofawhitifh greene,with fomelittle purple de. thed here andthere: thefruitis roundgrowing {catteringly vpon the branches, sreeneatth firft, but waxinga little yellow throughmate. | The Kindes. Thetede diuers forts of Barberries,fome greater,othersleffer,and fome withoutftones. Spina acida, five Oxyacantha, The Barberry bufh. fe ‘y tafte : the floures be yellow, ftanding in clu- fers vpon long ftemmies: in their places come vp long berries, flender, red when they beripe, witha little hard kernell or ftone within ; of a fowre and fharpetafte: the root is yellow, dif perfethit felfe farreabroad, and is of awooddy fubftatice. Wee haue in our London gardens another We haue alfo;in our London gardens)an0- ther, fort altogether, without, prickles: wha fort,whofe fruite is like in forme and fubftance, fruit is very fmal,lefferby muchthan theco™- but oneberry is as bigas three of rhe common mon kinde,but of.a perfe& redicolaunwhere™ kinde, wherein confifteth the difference. Wehauelikewife another withoutany ftone, thefruiteis like the reft of the Barber ries, both in fubftanceand tafte. it differeth ftom. the reft ofhis kinde, ql; The Plage. Thefe. plants do, grow in. our Londonga dens.and elfewhere in great aboundanee. q The Place. The Barberrie buth growethof it felfe in vntoiled places anddefart grounds, in woods, and the bordersof fields, efpecially about a Gentlemans houfe called M*. Mowke, dwelling ina village called Iuer, two miles from Colebrooke, Gq: The Time, ‘i The leaues comeforthin the beginning of Aprill or fooner: the fruit is ripe in Iune and July. q The Names, This fhrub had.no name among the old Writers,whoaswe deemé knewir not, orelfe oe i it not :the later writerscall it in Latine Creffularia ; and oftentimesof the berries, 7a Cripa’ Spanith, Va Crifpa, or Efpina : in Italian, va (pina : in French, Grot/elles : in Englifh;Goo'! T Goote-berry bufh,and Fea-berry buth in. Chefhire, my natiue coantrey. The Temperature. rete fe The berries.ofthis buth before they be ripe are cold and'dry,and thar in-the later end of me cond degree, and alfo binding. : @ The Mertuese q 3 wy phan Thefruitis vfed in diuers fauces for meatejas thofethatiare skilfulin cookerie can beater t® myfelfe, rhe hauing many young ftraight fhootes and flightly nicked about the edges, and of a fowre die, and not without ftringsanexedthereto. There is anotherwhofe fruitisalmolas big as a {mall Chery, and very round in fotme:4s alfo anotherof thelike bigneffe, of an inchin length, in tafte and fubftance agreeing with the commonfort. fpins, uafpinellasand Vva Crifpina: in high; Dutch, Hrutelbeer + it low-Dutch, Sptetselbelim q The Defiription. ao Barberry plant is an high fhrub or buth, branchesjvery full of white and prickly thornes;' the rinde whereofis {mooth andthin, the wood it felfe yellow: the leaues are long,very greene, ritie, full of awinie iuyce! fomewhat fivect in tafte when they be ripe ; in\whichis contained hard feed of a whitith colour: the rootis woo i D Thetipe berries,as theyare fweeter, fo doe they alfo little or nothing binde, and are fomething E forandyeeld a little more nouri(hment thanthofe that be notripe,and the fame not ctude or raw; batthefeare feldome eatenor vfed asfauce, 1 ; tound red, the long red, and the prickly Goofe-berrie. Goofe-berries, B They are Siuertly eaten,but howfocuer they be eaten they alwaies ingender raw and cold blond: c Of Goofe-berrie, or Fea-berry Biff +. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Lis. 3. Th Th where moft of the hedges are nothing elfe but - Barberry buthes. */ ate planred in gardens in moft places of England. @| TheTime. Re leaues {pring forth in Aprill:the floures andfruite in September. ba @] The Names. Sec fe. eo calleth this thorne in Greeke,iguzxes3swho makethit to differ from tfenxerine, AD) his booke Ry culties of fimple medicines:but more plainely in his booke of the Faculties of Nourith- ~sWhere he reckoneth vp the tender {prings of Barberries among the teader fhoots that are ‘Etine to |