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Show ReTR EEaes ie esi) cena 1466 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Cornus mds. The male Cornel tree. Lin.3, ~L1B. 30 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants.> ie eae Oliue tree:which being vaded, there conte Cornus femina. The Dog-berry tree, {mall long berries, which atthe firtt bee greene, and red when they be ripe; of an auftere and harfh tafe, with a certaine foureneffe : within this berry is @ {mall ftone, exceeding hatd, white within like G The Place. This thrub groweth in hedges andbufhes in euery countrey of England, that of the Oliue, wherunto it is like both @ The Time. in the fafhion and oftentimes inthe big. neffe ofthe fruit. ‘ @ The Place, The floures come forth in the Spring in the monethof Aprill: the berries are Tipe in: Aus tumne. © The Names. The Italians docommonlycall it Saaguino, i This groweth in moft places ofGetma: nie without manuring tit growes not wild in England. but yet there be fundry trees and Saneninello : Petrus Crefcentius termes it San- of themgrowing in the gardens of fuchas loue rare and daintyplants,whereofI haye guinus sand Matthiolus, Virga fanguines: Pliny, 4b.24. cap.to. hath writrena little of VirgaSan- a tree or two in my garden: guinea: Neither is ¥irga Sanguinea, faith’ hee; counted morehappy , the inner barke whereof doth breake open the fearres which they before hauchealed. It is anhard thing, or peraduen- a The Time, The tame Cornell tree floureth fome: time in February, & commonlyin March, andafterwards the leaues come forthasan ture arafh part, to affirme by thefe few words, votimely birth: che berries orfrnitareripe in Auguft. | The Names, The Grecians call it xpie : the Latines; Cornus : inhigh-Dutch, Cognelbaums ia low-Dutch,Cogtioele boot: the Italians, that Pliny his Virga Sanguinca is the famethat the Italian Saneuino is, This is calledia high- Dutch, Hartviegel: in low-Dutch,woAde Cogs noelle, that is to fay, Cornusfjlucfis, or wilde Cornell tree: and in French, Cornellier favuage : in Englith, Hounds tree, Hounds berry, Dogs Corniolo : in French, Cornillier : in Spanith, Cornizolos : in Englith , the Comell tree, berry tree, Pricke-Timber: in the North coun- trey they callit Gaten tree, or Gater tree; the berries whereof feem to be thofe which Chaucer calleth*Gater berries : alerivs Cords nameth and the Cornelia tree,of fome,long Cherrie tree. Thefruit is named in Latine, Cormm: in high-Dutch, Cognell : in low- Ditch, Cognoele ¢ in Italian, Cornole : in Englith,Cornel berries and Cornelian.Cherries. This is Cortus mas Theophrafti, of Theophraftus his male Cornell tree; for he fettethdowne two forts ofthe Cornell trees, themale and the female: he maketh the wood ofthe male to befound, as in this Cornell tree ; which webothfor this caufe and for others al fo haue madetobe themale. The female is that which is commonly called Virga fanguinea,or Dogsberry tree, and Cornusfilue- Siri, ox the wilde Cornell tree, ofwhich we will treat in the next Chapterfollowing. / @| The Temperature and Vertues. : The fruit of the Cornell tree hath a very harfh or chokingtafte: ir cooleth, drieth,and bindeth, yet mayitalfo be eaten, as it is oftentimes. ee It is a remedie againft the laske and bloudy flix, it is hurtfull to a cold ftomacke,and increafeth the rawneffe thereof : the leaues and tender cropsofthe tree arelikewife of an harthand choking tafte, and domightily dry. of They heale greene wounds thatare great and deepe,efpeciallyin hard bodies, but they are ° fo goodfor {mall wounds and-tenderbodies, as Galen writeth. greene atthefirft, arid of4 thinih when they beripe,intafte vapleataity and not cared for of the birds, it Jwrxatz, that is to fay, Fal/a or Spuria Cornms, fileor baard Cornell tree : this feemeth alfo to be Theophraftus his sionals, OF Cornusfemina, fenileCornell treé. This hath little branches hauing pithwithin, neither be they hard ner found, ligthofe ofthe male : the fruit is ‘#ns, that is, not fit to be eaten,anda late fruitwhich is not ipetill after che Autumne A’quinostiall ; and fuch is the wilde Cornell tree or Gater tree, the jtigand tender branches whereof be red, and haue (as wee haue written) a pith within: the fruie betties be vnpleafant, and require a long time before they can beripe, q The Temperature. s Theberries hereofare of vnlike parts; for they haute fome hor, bitter, and clenfing,and very tuny cold, dry, harth, and binding, yet they hauenovf in medicine, q The Vertues. \ ‘ Matthiolus writeth, that out of the berries firft boiled, and afterwards preffed, there iffueth an iewhich the Anagnian countrey people dovfe in lamps: but it is not cettaine,norvery like, that thebarke of this wilde Cornell tree hath that operation which Pliny feporteth of Virga Sanguinea ; fothe faith,as we haue already fet downe, that the inner barke thereofdoth break and lay open the “als which they before haue healed. _ Cap. 105, Curae. 106. Of thefemale Cornell or Dog-Berry tree. Of Spindle tree or Pricke-wood. | The Defcription. q| The Defcription. Rickewoodis no high:thrub, ofthe bigneffe of the Pomegrtanattree : x eis atts Hat whichthe Italians call virga fanguinea,or the bloudy Rod,is like to the Cornel oe) = it groweth not inroa tree,but rethaineth a fhrub : the yong branches thereofare eit fe be ofan obfcure red'purple: they haue within a white fpongie pith like thatot ts hole theold ftalks are hard and {tiffe, the fub tance of the whichis alwhite, and anfwerable 10 ofthe Cornell tree: the leaves are alfo like, the middle rib whereof as alfo the brittle foot . } ‘ : {poky = are fomewhat reddifh sav the top whereof ftand white flouresin rundles;swhi whicht ur ne , berries; with his branches : the old ftalks haue their barke fomewhat white; the new afd thote .,. thatbe lately grownebe greene, and foure {quare: the fib {tance a eS ites oN ‘tdmixed with a light yellow : the leaues be long, broad, lender, and foft:t me ee ew wee say ftanding vpon one foot-ftalke, like almoft to a {poked tundle : the fruit is! oe ae ; . a, “containing foure white feeds,cuery one whereofis couered with a yellow coat,which being ta“Noff giueth a yellowdie. g. 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