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Show 1468 Lis. 3. Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 1 Enonymns ‘ us Theophrafti. THE Engliih Prick-tinaber tree? Li Bh Ofthe Hiftory of Plants, 1466 ByThe fame Authorfetteth forth anothes fort whichhe foundin the mountaines of Morauia and Hungary, hauing a trunkeor ftocke of the height ofthree or foure cubits, coueted with a bark rene atthe firft, afterward{prinkled ouer with many blacke fpots :the boughes aré divided toward the top into divers {mall branches, very brittle and cafie to breakewwhereon areplaced leaues 2 Euonymus latifolins, Broadleafed Spindletrea, by couples alfo, one oppofite to another, fomewhat {nipt about the edges, in fhape like thofe of thegreat Myrtle, of an aftringent ta fte at the beginning, after fomewhathot andbitter :amongft whichcome forth {mall floures ftanding vpon long naked foot-ftalkes, confifting of fourelittle eaues ofa bright fhining purplecolour, hauing in the middle fome fewfpots of yellow: after commeth the fruit, foutre cornered, not vnlike to the commonkinde, ofa fpongious fub{tance,and agold yellow colour.: wherein is contained notred berries like the other, but blacke,very like to thole of Fraxizella, ofa fhining blacke colour like vnto burnifhed horne; which are deuoured of birds when they be ripe, and the rather becaufe they fall of chemfelues out of their huskes, otherwile the bitterne fie of the husks would take awaythe delight. gy The Place, The firft commethvpin vatoiled places,and among (hrubs,vpon rough bankes and heapes of sath: it feructh alfo oftentimesfor hedgesin fields, growing amongft Brambles and fuch other Thornes. Theotherforts Carolus Clufius found in a wood of Hungaric beyond the riucr Drauus, and alfo ypon the maountaines ofMorauia and other places adiacent. The Time. The floures appeare in Aprill: the fruitis ripe inthe end of Auguft,or inthe monethof Sep- tember. The Names. Theopbraftus calleth this fhrub ‘sexu, anddefcribeth it in his third booke of the Hiftorie of Plants : diuers alfo falfly xeade it Avonymos : Petrus Crefcentius calleth it Fufanum, becaufe {pindles bemade of the wood hereof, and for that caufe it is called in high- Dutch,Spindelbaum,yet mofk ofthem anhodlin :inlow Durch, apenhout: in Italian, Fufano : in French, Fufiz,and Bonnet dpestre : in Englith, Spindle tree, Prick-wood,and Prick-timber. §| TheTemperatureandVertues. This fhrub is buttfull to all things, as TAcophraftus writeth, and namely to Goats : hee faith the fit hereof killeth;fo doth the leaues and fruit deftroy Goatsefpecially,vnleffe they fcoure as wel ipwards as downwards: if three or foure ofthefe fruits be giuen toa man they purge both by yo~ mitand ftoole. . 3 Enonymus Pannonicus, H ungarie Spindle tree, —_ 2 This otherfort of Ewonymas growels Cuars107. to the forme ofan hedgetreeofa meanevif neffe , the trunke or body whereofis ot a thickneffe of a mans leg, covered with roughor feabbed barke of an overwomn mui G The Defiription. colour. The branchesthereof are many, ee der, and very cuen, coucted with a grecte barke whileft they be yet young ang (5 they are alfovery brittle, with fome pi” the middle like that of the Elder. The a are few in number,full ofneruesof finue' i fperfed like thofe of Plantaine,in tha thofe of the Pomecitrontree, of 410° {mell and bitter tafte : among tt which ¢ forth flender foorftalks very long andna whereon do growfimall floures conlift foure {mall Ieaues like thofe of the Nip 108 tree,but leffer, ofa white colour ten Pe bluth, with fome yellownefle inthe ao after commeththe fruit, which 1847" the former, and as it were wINg° commonly into foure,yet fomrimes th parts; and opening whenit is ripe a thewhite'graines filled with aye.i per, ng The rootis tough and wooddy, 3 Th Heblacke Allertree bringethforth fromthe roorftraight ftalkes diuided into divers bran= ches : the outward barke whereofis blacke, and that next tothe wood yellow, and giveth a colour as yellowas Saffron: the fubftance of the woodis white andbrittle, with a reddifh pith in the midft : the leaues be like thofe of the Alder tree, or ofthe Cherry tree, yet blacker, and alittle rounder: the flonres be fomewhat white : the fruit are round berries,in which appeare a Cettaine rift or chinké,as though two were ioined together, at the firft greene; afterwards red, and lal ofall blacke : in this there be two little ones : the root runnethalong in the earth. @| The Place. _ The Aller tree groweth in moift woods and copfes : I found great plenty of it in awood a mile fom Ilington, in the way from thence toward {mall village called Harn{ey,lying vpon theright handof the way; and in thewoods at Hampfted neere London, and in moft woodsinthe parts ae Yout London, se ay The Time, i / The leaues andfloures appeare in the beginning of the Spring ; and the berries in Autumne, q The Names. iene This (hrub is called «4/sus nigra, or blacke Alder: and by. others, Frangula : Petrus Crefeembing Rmethit dwornus : in low- Dutch, Sparkenhout, and oftentimes qdifiyout, becaufe boies make forthemfelues arrawes hereof :in high-Dutch, faulbaum : it is called in Englifh, blacke Aller : felfe farre abroad vader the vpp* eruftol earth, Of the blacke eAllertree. 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