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Show Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. . x _ ees ~ . . > - Lin, cs ~ Li. 3. manifett, that the fecond Sauine isnot Thya, neither Vite arbor, fo called of the later Herbarig itis likewife named by Lobel, Sabina genuina baccifera, atrocerulea, thatis, the true Sauinethatby.: rethberries of a blackithblewcolour. ea Gq The Defcription. l T He firft kinde of Tamariske growethlike a {mall hedge tree, couered with areddith gq The Temperatare. barke,hauing many branchesfet and bedeckt with leaues,muchlike vnto Heath:among The ;leaues of Sauine, which are moft vfed in medicine, are hotand dry in the thiird d pes egtec,and y : y of fubtill parts, as Galenfaith, q The Vertues, yhich comeforth {mall moffie white floures declining to purple, which turne into a pappous or * The leaues of Sauin boyled in Wine and drunke prouokevrine, bring downe the menfes wi force, draw awaythe after-birth, expell the dead childe, and kill the quicke: it hath ein sootsoforher fhrubs be,and groweth diuers waies. 3 TheGermane Tamariske hath many wooddie branchesorfhootsriffing from the root,with awhite bark,hauing his leaues thicker and groffer than the former, and notfo finely iagged or cut: Thefloures are reddith,andlarger than the former,growing not vponfoot-ftalkes,many thick clu- : tue receiued vnderina perfume. The leaues ftamped with honeyPe andapplied, cure vicers, ftay {preading and creepingyl NC . > r {coure and take awayall {pots and freckles fromthe face or body ofman or Cashes me The leaues boyled in oyle Oliue,and kept therein, kill thewormes in children, ifyou anoint Cc their bellies therewith :and the leaues poudered andgiuenin milke'or Mufcadell dothe fame, B D Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. a The sieciiese and beateintofine pouder, andftrewed vpon thofe kindes of exerefcences /ib reputio, called Caroles, and fuch like, gotten by dealing with vncleane women,take them awa Faredly, curing and healiig: them: but if theybeifitieterate And old,and'hauebeen midage “¥ed withall,it thall be neceflarie to addevnto the fame a {mall quantitie of Auripigmentum infne pouder, and vfe it with diferetion, becaufe the force of the medicineis greatly increafed thereby and made more corrofiue, downie feed,thatflieth away with the winde, as thatof Willow doth: the root is wooddie as the fering together,as thofe of the former,buteacha pretty diftance from another onthe tops of the branches {pike fafbion,and beginto floure below:which do turne into feed, thar is likewife carried away withthe winde, q The Place. Tamariske growethby running ftreames, and many times by rivers that breake forth, and not feldomeaboutfenny grounds,commionly ina grauelly foile,for it beft profpereth in moift and ftony places: it is found in Germany, Vindelicia, Italy, Spaine,and alfo in Greece. The Tamarisks do alfo grow in Egyptand Syria,as Diofcorides writeth,and likewife in Tylus an Wand in Arabia,as Theophraftws noteth: the wood wherof, faith he,is not weak as with vs in Greece, but frong like zrim»,or timber, or any otherftrong ching : this Tamariske Diofcorides doth call vrothatis to fay,tame,or planted and faith that it bringethforth fruit very like to Galls,in tafte Cuar. 51. 1 Tamarifcus Narbonenjis, French Tamariske, Of Tamaruke. 2 Tamarifcus Germanith, Germane Tamariske. tough and. binding. Petrus Bellonius in his fecond bookeoffingularities reporreth, that hee faw in Egypt very high Tamarisks and great like other trees,and that fometimes in moift places by riuers fides, and many timesalfo indry and gravelly grounds where no other trees did grow,which now and then did betehanging on the boughes fuch a multitude of Galls, that the inhabirantscall Cherma/él,as being ouer loden,they were ready tobreake. Both thefe grow and profper well in gardens with vs here in England, _ The Time. Thefe trees or fhrubs floure in May, and in the later end of Auguft,theit feed is carried away with the wind, q The Names. They are called in Greeke. wens: and in Latine alfo Myrica, and Tamarix : in hops,Tamarifiws: o£ {aurus Horatianus, Murica: Diofcorides maketh that which groweth in Greece and Italy to be 2;p10, owilde Tamariske: it is named in high Dutch Qamavifchen holt, and qo0e%: in low Dutch, Foenboomn, @Tamarltchvoome: in Italian, Tamarzgio : in Spanifh, Tamarguiraand Tamari< : in French, Tamarw in Englith, Tamariske. 5 The Temperature ahd Vertues. Tamariske hathaclenfing and cutting facultie with a manifeft drying; it isalfo fomewhat A afttingent or binding,and by reafon of thefe qualities it is very good foran hard {pleen,being boy- ledwith vinegeror wine,cither the rootot leaues,or tender branches,as Galen writeth. _ Moreouer Diofcorides teacheth,that the decoétion of the leaues made with wine,dothwafte the B ibleene,and that the fame is good againft the tooth-ache,if the mouth be wafhed therewich :that itbringeth downe the Menfes,if the patientfit therein ; that it killeth lice and nits, if the parts be dathed therewith. : sabe afhes of burnt Tamariske hatha drying facultie, and greatly fcouring withall, and little Cc INGing , . Thefoures and downiefeed of the greater Tamariske doth greatly binde, infomuch asiccom- D. meth very neere to the Gallnamed Galla Omphacité,but that the roughneffe oftafte is more evident ‘nthe Gall.the which floures are of an vnequall temperature, for thereis ioined to the nature therSa great thinnefle of parts,and clenfing facultie, which the Gall hath not,as Galen writeth. Thefe floures we fitlv vfe (faith Diofcor.)in ftead of Gall,in medicines for the cies and mouth: Itis go0dto @anchbloudand toftay. the laske and womens whites, ithelpeth the yellow. taun- “icc.andalfo cureth thofe tharare bit ofthe venomous f{pider called Phalanginm, the barke feraeth ‘or the fame purpofes. ‘ . Theleaues and wood ofTamariske haue great power andvertue againft the hardneffe and ftopPing of the {pleene,efpecially the leaues being boiled in water,and the decoction drunke,orelfe inied ina {mall veffell of Ale or Beere, and continually drunke : andif it bee drunke forth of a cup *' aith made of thewpood or timber of Tamariske,is ofgreater efficacie. ee |