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Show Of the Hiftory of Plants. 1304 ey LD" Theoile ofripe Olites mollifieth andaflwageth paine, diffolueth tumors or {wellings, is ocd for the ftiffeneffe ofthe ioints, and againft cramps,efpecially being mingled according to artwith goodand wholefomeherbes appropriate vntothofe difeafesandgrietes, as Hypericon,Cammonll M Dill, Lillies, Rofes,and manyothers, whichdofortifie andincreafe his vertues; j Theoile of varipe Oliues, called Omphacinumoleum,dothftay, repreffe, and driue away the be. ginning oftumors and inflammations, cooling the heate of burning vicers and exulcerations, 1395 OftheHiftorie of Plants. L1Bs 3- um tobe that of h auee thethe berries to be called Yaccinia, and Vaccini Some there be that would bookeof Archite@urelor the art of building, feuenth nhis 1 n tio men e mad which Hitravizes hath faith he,they temper Vaccinium, and putting le colours : after the fame manner, chap. 14 of purp h breuitic of the old writers what can be certainely milke vato it domake a gallant purple :in fuc ined, a The Temperature. on dry, and aftringent. coldj are Privet of fruit The leaues and fee , q) The Vertues. f the mouth ort Oa, vicerso and ations, apoftum gs, fwellin the cure The leaues of Priuet do nt good to be Liguftrum, , and therefore they be excelle being gargarifed with the iuyce or ¢ ecostion thereof s andfores in chilfcal dings 5 with women,canker pitinto lotions, to waththefecret parts,and the drens mouthes. q| The Defiription, Priuet, or Prim Print. Riuetis a fhrub growing like ahedgetree, the branchesiand twigs wherofbeftraight, and couered withfoftgliftring leaues.ofa deepe green colour,like thofe of Petuincle,bur yet longer, greater alfo than the leaues ofthe Oliue tree: the floures be white,{weet offinell, very little, growing .in clufters ; which being vaded there fueceed clufters of berries, at the firft greene, and whentheybe ripe blackelikea little clufter of grapes, whichyeeld a purple iuice:the roor growetheuery wayaflope, Cuare 58, t Phillyrea anguftifolia. Narrow leaued Mock-Priuet, OfMocke-Privet. 2 Phillyrea latiore folio. j The broader leaued Mock-Priuet. qj The Place. The common. Priuet groweth naturally in enery wood,andin the hedgerowes ofout Londongardens: itis not foundinthe counttey of Polonia and otherparts adiacent. | The Time. Tt floureth in the end of Mayjorin June: the berries are ripe in Autumneof about Winter, which nowand then continueall the Wintet Jong ; butin the meane timethe leaues fall away,and in the Spring new come vp if their places, q The Names. ; Itiscalled in Latine, Liguftrum :i0 Tralian at this day, Gusftrico, by a corrupt word drawne from Ligaffrum + itis the Grecians ems and in | allindying. And therefore Pliny, 1:6.24.cap.10.was deceiued, in that he iudged Priuet to be the felfe fametree which Cyprusis inthe Eaft: which thing notwithftandinghe did not write 484° himfelfe thought, butas orher men fuppofe ; for, 6.12. cap. 14. he writeth thus : Some ( al affirme this,7/X, Cyprus,to be that tree whichis calledinItaly, Liguftrum ; and that Ligufrs™ Priuetis that plant which the Grecianscall seve, the defcription doth declare. wey Phillyria, faith Dioftorides, is a tree like in bignefle to Cyprus, withleaues blackerandD108 than thofe ofthe Oliue tree: it hath fruit like to that of the Maftick tree,blacke,fomething i" ftanding in clufters, and fucha tree for all the worldis Priuet, as we haue before declared. Serapio the Arabian, cap .44. doth call Priuet Mahaleb, ‘There is alfo another Mahaleb, whicn i$ Zraiheorfeed ofwhich Axicemaketh mention, cap.a78. that it doth by his warme and comfort? bieheatediffolueandaflwage paine. Serspio feemethto intreatofthem both, and tocontaee uersiof thetatubaleb vnder the title of one chapter sit isnamed in high-Dutch, aBeinholtsie> Mundtholes, vhein oder Sehultociders : in low-Durch, Reelevupt,Monthout: in Eren” che eae : in Englifh, Priuet,Primprint,andPrint, SS faith; and (as Bellonizs reporteth) do giuea yellow colour but the leaues of Priuct haue 19 Vie ST NO wile vies « for Cyprus 1s a fhrub that gioweth:naturally inthe Eaft, and Priuet inthe ; E Welt. They be very like one vnto another, as the deferiptions doe declare but yet inthis they differ, as witneffeth Bellonius, becaufe the leaues ofPriuetdo fall awayin winter, and the Jeaues OL Cyprusare alwaies greene : moreouer, the leaues of Cyprus do make the hairered, as Disftoriae q| The Defiription. 1 Yprusisa kinde of Privet,and is called Phillyrea,which nameall the forts - a his they paffe voder fundrytit os cP thereof do retaine, thoughfot diftinGions fake gaas a Pomegranat tree, befet with e, fometimes asb ig x a plant growethlike an hedgetre growing by couples,very like the leaves det wigsy boughes whichare garnifhedwithleauescolour fr ourthec bofomes of ; tage leaues =F thefe greene a of and fofter, broader, the Olinetree, but being: vaded, which fmell: (weet pleafant a of floures, white {mall of bunches “oneforth oreat berries of the Aldertree. ae L very like theOS fcceedclufters of blacke berries Nete Pe srmer in body; branches 2 The cond Cypius, called alfo Phillyrea latifolia, is very like the former i yt dys rae ie eau. 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