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Show >144 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. from fhedding.withftandeth drunkennefle,ifit be taken fafting,and preuaileth again poifonand Cuar: 73. the bitings of any venomous beatt. i of eS G There is drawne out of the greenberries thereofa inice,which is dried and referued forthe fore: faidvfes. : ; . ‘ H_ Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Lis. ig Lis. 3. There is likewife preffed out of the leaues.a iuice, by adding vnto them either old wine orraine water,which muft be vfed whenit is new made,for being onee drie it putrifieth, and as Dioféorids faith,lofeth his vertues. Of Worts or Voortle berries. @ The Kindes. Accinls, or Worts, ofwhich wetreat in this place, differ from Violets, neither arethey efteeV med fox their floures butberries : of thefe Worts there be diuers forts found out by the latet Writers. Cuap. 72. Offect Willowor Gaule, Myrtus Brabantica,five Eleagnus Cordi. Gaule,fweet willow,or Dutch Myrtle tree. t i 2 Vactiniarubra. Vaccitia nigra. B= Red Wortsor VVortle berries, 0 Blacke VVorts or VVortle berries, ’ | The Defcription. Auleisa low and little fhrub or wooddy plant,hauing many brown & hard branches:whereupon doe grow leaues fomewhat long,hard,thicke,and oileous, ofan hot fauouror {mel] fomewhatlike a¢yrtws: among the branches come forth otherlittle ones, wherupon do grow manyf{pokie cares ortufts, full offmall floures, and after themfucceed great flore of {quare feeds cluttering together, ofa ftrong and bitter tafte. The rooris hard, and ofa wooddie {ubftance, The Place. This Gaulegroweth plentifully in fundry places of England,as in the IleofEly,& in the Fennie countries thereabouts, wherofthereis fuch ftore in that countrey,that they makefa- Bots ofit and fheaues , which they call Gaule theaues,to burne andheattheit ouens. Itgrow cth alfoby Colebrooke, and in fundry thet places, | The Time, : The Gaule floureth in Mayand Iune,anc the {eed is ripe in Auguft. G The Names, ; This treeis called of diuers in Latine,My tus Brabanticaand Pfeudomyrfine,and (ordus callethit Eleagnus, Chamaleagnus, and Myriusbra- A > SE bantica. Eleagnus is defcribed by Theephrafinst0 bea fhrubbie plantlike vnto the Chafte tree, with a foftand downie leafe,and with the floute o! the Poplartreezand that which we hauedefcribedis no fuch plant. It hath no name amongtheo! " writers for ought we know,vnlefle it be Rhus[ylueftris Pling,or Pliny his wilde Sumach, ofwhi¢ : ce hath writteninhis 24.book,11 chap.|'Thereis,faith he,awilde herbe withfhorr ftalkes, whic? ® an enemy to poifon,and akiller of mothes.] It is called in low Dutch,@agel sin Englith,Gaule. = The. Temperature. : Gaule or the wilde Myrtle,efpecially the feed,is hot anddrie in the third degree : the leaues % hotand drie,but not fo much, A B @ The Vertues. i Thefruit is rroublefome to the brain;being purinto beere or ailewhileft it is in boiling many vfe to do)it makeththe fame heady, fitto make a man‘quickly drunke. . Thewhole fhrub,fruit and all,being laied among clothes,keepeth themfrom moths and worms Car, q| The Defiription, Activia nigra, the blacke Wortle or Hurtle, is abafe and low fhrub or wooddy plant; bringing forth many branches ofa cubit high, fer full of fmall leaues ofa dark greene colour, not much valike the leaues of Box or the Myrtle tree: amongft which come forthlittle hollow floures turning intofmall berries, greene at the firft, afterward red,and atthe laofa blacke colour, andfull ofa pleafant andfweet iuyce : in whichdoelie dinerslittle thine whitith feeds : theberries do colour the mouthandlips ofthofe that ¢ate them,with a black colt; the toot is wooddy,flender, and nowandthen creeping. ; 2 Vaccinia rubra, ox red Wortle, is like the former in the manner of grawing, but that the leaues are greatet and-harder, almoft like.the leaues of the Boxtree, abiding greene all the VW inter Sn§:amongwhich comeforth {mall carnation floures, long and round,growingin clufters at the P ofthe branches: afterwhichfucceedfmall berries, in fhew and bigneffe like, the former, but “at they are of an excellent red colour, andfull of iuyce, of fo orient and beautifull a purple to “Mine withall, that Indian Lacca is not to be compared thereunto,efpecially whenthis iuyce is Peparedand dreffed with Allom accordingtoart, as my felfe haue proued byexperience: the taft Stouch andaftringent: the root is ofa wooddyfubftance. Vatounta alba or the white Wortle, is like vnto the former, bothin ftalks and leaues,but the Settles ate ofa white colontywherein confifterh the difference. ie abe * The figurewhich our Author here giues in the thirdplace hath need ofa better eee |
