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Show i Of che Hitterie of Plants. LBs 3. Of theHiftory ofPlants. that there be twokindes ofCxeoron,the one white,the other blacke: this maybe called in q The Defcription. Spurge Flax,or mountaine Widow Wayle: the feed of Thymelea is called in thops, Gra dinin. The Temperature. SpurgeFlax is naturally bothinleaues andfruit extreme hor, biting andofa burning qualitie, q The V ertues, A The graines or berries, as Diofcorides faith, purge byfiege ; choler, flegme and’ water, if twenty gtaines of the inner part be drunke,but t burneth the mouthand throat, whereforeit is tobegj withfine floure or Barly meale,or in Raifons,orcoueredwith clarified hony, that it may be fivallowed. : : ; The fame being ftamped with Niter and vineger,ferueth to annoint thofe with,whichcanhard. ly feat. i oven The leaues ntuft be gathered about harueft, and being dried in the fhade,theyare tobe layed vp and referued. F : They that would giue them muft beat them,and take forth the ftrings:the quantity of twoounces and two drams put into wine tempered with water, pu rgeth and draweth forth wateryhumors : but they purge more gently ifthey be boiled with Lentils,and mixed with pot-herbes chopped, The fameleaucs beaten to pouder and made vp into trochifces orflat cakes, with the inice of aaa 2 ; fowergrapesare referued for vie. The herbe is anenemy to the ftomacke,whichalfo deftroyeththe birthif itbe applied, Our Authorformerlyfollowing Tabernémontanme gauc two figires and defesiptionsin this Chapter, but being both ofonéthing I omitted theworfer figure and detcription, Cuar.65: Laureola florens. Laurell,or Spurge Laurell flouring; Purge Laurell is a thrub of a cubit high,oftentimes alfo of two, and fpreadeth with manylittle boughes,which ate tough andlithy, and couered with a thicke rindé. The leaues be long, broad, grofle,imooth,blackifh gicene, fhining,like the leaues of Laurell, but lefler, thicker;.and without {mell, very many at the top,cluftering together. The floures be long, hollow, of awhitith greene, hanging beneath and among the leaues : the berries when they be ripe are blacke, with a hard kerell within,which is a little longer than the feed of Hempe: the pulpe or inner fubftance is white: thenot wooddie,tough,long, and diuerfly parted,growing deepe: the leaues,fruit and barke, as wel oftieroot as ofthelittle boughes,doe withtheir fharpneffe and burning qualitie bite and fet on frethe tongue and throat. The Place; Itis found on mountaines, in vnrilled,rough,fhadowie,and wooddie places,as by the lake of Loanaor Geneua,and in many places neere the riuerof Rhene and ofthe 'Maze. ¢ Ir growes abuniatlyalfo in the woods in the moft partsof England. + 3 G The Time. The foures bud very foon,a little after the Autume Equino @iall:they are full blown in Winter, inthe firft Spring : the fruit istipe in May and Iune: the plant is alwaies greene, and indureth tecold fLormes of winter. @ The Names, ltisealled in Greeke sist, of the likenefle it hath with the leaues of the Laurell or Bay tree: inLatine likewife Daphnoides : the later Latinifts for the fame caufe name it Laureola, asthough tieyfhould fay Minor Laurws,or little Laurell. it is called ,auser, and amas, notwithftanding there Of Spurge Laurell. smother Chamedaphne,and another Peplion, This fhrub is commonly called in Englith, $ purge 2 fat Lanveola tune finite Laurell withhis fruits Littellofdiuers,Laurell or Lowry. Some fay that the Italians namethe berries hereof Piper montanum , or Mountaine Pepper, as #othe berries of Dutch Mezereon: others affirme themto beecalledin High Dutchalfo, Zeta " Atmay be Theophrastus his Cneoron: forit is much liketo a Mirtle in leafe, it is alfoa branched “it, tough andpliable,hauing a deep root,without fell witha blacke fruir, q The Temperature. . ltis like in temperature andfacultie to the Germane Spurge Oliue, throughout the whole fiib2 “tte biting and extreme hot. @| The Vertues. Thedric or greencleaues of Spurge Laurell; faith Diofcarides, purgethbyfiege flegmatick e hu- A! 0's; it procureth vomite and bringeth downethe menfes,and being chewedit drawethwater out othehead , Ttlikewife caufeth neezing ; moreouer, fifteengraines of the feed theteofdrunke, are a purgaB Cuar. 66. Of Rofe Bay, or Oleander. | The Defiription. : Ofe Bayis afmall{htub ofagallant thew like the Baytrec, bearing leaues, thicker, greater longer and rougher thanthe leaues of the Almond tree:theflou res be ofa faire ’ ted colour,diuidedinto fiue leaues, not much vnlike a little Rofe : the cod orfruitis hen © 4elepias,or Vincetoxicum,andfull of fuch white downe, among which the feedli eth hid. 3 ce is long,fmooth,and woodd ie, Bones bag Od Kinde ofRofe bay,is like the firft,$¢ differeth in that,t hat put in other refpetts it is very like. : ; this plant hath white The |