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Show 1416 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. |} _ 3 Vaccinia alba, Thewhite Worts or Wortle berries, Ling 4 Vaccinia Pannonica, fine Vitis Idea, Hungarie Wortle berries, geek Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants forme forthe difference is not onely in the colour of the berries. This: difters from the former.in and bignefle ,, for it fends forth many, ftalkes, from the root; and. thefe three, foure, or fine.cubits barke:at high, thicke,and diuided into fundry branches,covered for the moft part witha blackith all holeaues forth fends branchesir the of fides the at buds the from thebeginning of the Spring , ftand tieand hairy vaderneath, and greene aboue;: from the midft of thefe, vponlittle foor-ftalkes apiece, without {mells and claering together many little Houres, confifting of fiue white: leaucs become thenthe leaues bylittle and little vnfold themf{elues. andcaft off their downineffe, and like, but fomewhat friptabout theedges. The fruit that fucceeds the floures is round, blacke, bigger thana Haw,full of iuyce ofa very {weet tafte ; wherein lies tenor more Jongith fmeooth blackith feeds. It growes vpon the Auftrian and Stirian Alps, where the fryitis ripe in Auguft. Gfius calls it itis Idea 3. Pena and Lobel, Amelancher.:. Gefner by diuers names, as Myrtomalus, Pe- S WO> , inmelis, Pyrws ceruinus, oot 4 Carolus Clufins in his Pannonicke Obferuations hath fet downeanother of the Wortle berries,ynder the name ofVitis Idea, which differeth fromthe other Wortleberries, not onely, in.fta- ture, but in leaues andfruitalfo.. ¢ The leauesiare long,narrow,fharpe pointed, full ofveines,a litehairy, and lightly fnipt about the edges, greener aboue than below: the fruit. growes from: the as: littops ofthe branches of the former yeare, hanging vpon longfoot-ftalkes, and being as big tleCherries, firft greene, then red,andlaftly blacke, full ofiuyce,and that of no vnpleafant tafe, containing no kernels but flat white feeds commonly fiueinnumbet: the ftalkes are weake, and commonlylie vpon the ground: Chsfins found it yponthe Auftrian mountaine Snealben;with the fit partly ripe, and partly varipe, in Augut. Iishis sts Idea.1..¢ 5 The fame Authoralfo fetteth forth anotherof the Wortle berries, vnder the title of 7a hifi, whichis likewifea fhrubbyplant, hauing many feeble branches , whereon growlong leaues bluntat the points, and ofan ouerworn green colour: among which, at the tops ofthe ftalks come forth clufters of bottle-like floures of an herby colour: the fruit followeth, growinglikewife in clufters, ereen at the firft,and blacke when they be ripe : the rooris of awooddy fubftance. + This isahraics reene, andthe floures ate of awhitith purplecolour. + s+ This differs from the fecond,in that the leauesare thinner, more full ofveines, and whiter | wdetnearh:the floureis like the commonkind,whitith purple,hollow,and diuided into fiue parts : | tefiuit al(o is blacke, and like that of the firft defcribed.. This growes on.diuers mountainous 5 VacciniaVrf, five Vua Vrfi apnd Clufiunr, Beare Wortle berries. t 6 Vitis Idea folijs fabrotundis maior. Great round leaued Wortle berries. placesof Germany,where Clufizs goferued it,who made it his Vitis Idea 2. $ @ The Place. Thefe plants profper beft in a lean barren foile,and in vntoiled wooddy places: they are nowand. then found on highhils fubieé to the winde,and vpon mountaines: they growplentifully in both the Germanies, Bohemia, and. in diuers places of, France and England; namelyin Middlefex on Hampfted heath, andin the woods theretoadioyning, and alfo vponthehills in Chefhire called Broxen hills, neere Beefton caftle,feuen miles from the Nantwich; and inthe wood by Highgate called Finchley wood, and in divers other places. Thered Wortle berry groweth in Weftmerland ata place called Crosby Rauenfwaith, where alfodoth grow the WWortlewith the white berry, and in Lancafhire alfovponPendle hills. ¢ LIhaue feene none ofthefe but only the firft defcribed, growing vpon Hampfted heath. The White formerly mentioned in the third defcription,and here againe in the place,feems only a varie- tieofthe fecond hauing white berries,as far as I cangather by our Author; for itis moft certaine, thatit is not that which he figured, and I haue deferibed in thethird place. + q The Time. The Wortle berries do floure in May, andtheir fruit is ripe in June, l gq The Names, ie VWortle berries is called in high- Dutch, Hepdelbeerets ¢ in low-Dutch, Crabebefien, becaufe theymake a certaine cracke whileft they.be broken betweene the teeth: of diners, Hauevbelten s l@ French men, c4irele, or wAurelle, as Iohannes de Chowl writeth: and we in England, VVorts, : rportleberries, Blacke-berries, Bill-berries,and Bull-berries,andin fomeplaces,VVin-berries. Moft of the thops of Germany docall them Myrtilli, but properly Ayrtil are the fruit of the tle tree, as the Apothecaries name themat this day, ‘This plant hathno name forought wee 1, either among the Greekes or antient Latines;; for whereas moft doetakeit to-be Fits ¢ the Corinthtree, whichPliay fyrnameth C4 lexandrina,it is vatrue ; for Yt Idea is not onto the commonVine,butisalfoa kinde of Vine : and Theophraftus,who bath made mention doth call itwithout an Epethete, ‘suawefimply, asa little after we wil declare ; which with“eof tdorbe hewould not haue done ifhehad found it to differ from the common Vine: For what cucr receitie a nameof fomeplant, the fameare expreffed with fome Epethit added to be ) differ from orhers-as Laurus Alexandrina,V itis alba,Vitis nigra,Vitis fyluePrisand fuchlike. Horcouer, thofe things which haue borrowed aname from fomeplantare like — wholly, |