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Show a Sa Seee ee tago Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. Li B.3, The duft or downe,faith Galen, that lieth on the leaues of the tree is tobe taken heed of forif Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Liss 3° —<—_—————eererr : it be drawne in with the breath, it is offenfiue to the winde- pipe by his extreme drineffe, and th king the fame rough, and hurting the voice, as it dothalfo the fight and hearing,if itfall intothe eyes or eares. Diofcorides dothnotattribute this tothe duft or downeof the leaues onely, bur al to that of the balls. : Cuape. 121. Of the Wayfaring Tree, Lantana, fine Viburnum, The Wayfaringtree, @| The Deféription, 1491 q TheVertues. againft al fwel- A f Lantana is very good tobe gargled in the mouth i other difeafes of the gums, and faftneth een: eoeinn eeand onsthereof, again tthe {curuie and inflammati fings e if they be bathed or wafhed therewith, and B Gan boiled in lee doth make-the haires black 4 fiffered to dry of it-felfe. fwhen they be dried ftay the laske,allif/ C Theberries are ofthe like facultie, the pouder whereo s. white the fues of bloud, and alfo buried a certaine time in the earth,and after- D Itisreported, thatthe barke oft he rootof the treegoo d Bird-lime for Fowlers to catch, Birds th make art, wards boiled and ftamped according to with, ‘He Wayfaring mans tree growes¥p toth: height ofan hedgetree, ofa mean bignes; the trunke or body thereofis couered with a tuffet barke: the branchesare long, tough, and Cuar.122. Of the Beade tree. eafie to be bowed, and hard to be broken, asare thofeof the Willow, couered witha foft whitith barke, whereonare broad leauesthicke and rough,fleightly indented aboutthe edges, of a £2 Zixypha Cappadocica. The Beadetree of Cappadocia. cesar nepte The Beadetree. white colour, and fomewhat hairy whileft they be frefhand green ; but when theybegin towither and fallaway,theyare reddifh, and fet together by couples one oppofit toanother, The floures ‘are white,and grow in clufters aftct which come elufters offruit ofthe bigneffe ofa peafe, fomewhat flat on both fides, at the fir greene,after red, and blacke when they beripe: theront difperfeth it felfe far abroad vader the vpper cruft ofthe earth. | The Place, This tree groweth in moft hedges in rough and ftony places,vponhils and low woods,elpe- cially in the chalky grounds of Kent abopt Cobham, Southfleet, and Grauefend,andinal] the tra& to Canturbury. @ The Time. The flourés appeare in Sommer: the berries areripe in the end of Autumne, and new leaues come forth in the Spring. This hedgetree is called ViurnadfRuellivs : in French, Viorne, and Viorna :in Italian, Lemay* it is reputed for the tree Viburnum,ofwhich Virgil maketh mention in the firft Eclog,where hee commendeth the city Rome for the loftineffe and ftatelineffe thereof, aboue other Cities, ayes thatas the tall Cypres trees do thew themfelues abouethe low and fhrubbyViom, fodoth Rome aboueothercities lift vp her head very high ; in thefe verfes: Verum hac tantum alias inter cuput exulit urbes, Quaniumlenta folent inter viburnacuprefi. Gg The Defeription. But this all other cities fo excels, i TT Lis tree was called Zizypha candida by the Herbarifts of Montpellier, and by the Vene- As Cypreffe,which ‘mong ft bending Viornes dwels. $ tians and Italians, Sycomorus, but vatruly :the Portugals have termed it Arbor Paradi-~ Tindge /iburmumnottobe a name to any particular plant, buta general! name ny I enquire? © 4 and bending thrubs ; amongft whichthis here defcribed may take place as one. called the Cottont*"" countrey manin Effex, if he knewany nameof this: he anfwered, it was reafonofthefoftneffe ofthe leaues. ¢ GQ The Temperature. of the whole %#:allwhich and each whereof haute erred together, both in refpe& of the fruit and ite : fome haue called it Zixyp44, though in facultic it is nothinglike, for the tafte ie frritis the tree w - eee ¥ety vnpleafant, virulent,and bitter. But deciding all controuerfies, this is calleth C4zederach,whichis very great, charged with many large armes, that are garnifhe h with triggie branches, fet full of great leaues confifting of fundry fmall leaues,one growing be t op- 7 Theleanes and berries of Lantana are cold and dry,and ofa binding qualitie. q th Polite t> anotherlike the leaues of the Ath tree or Wickentree, but more deepely cut about the fiue fmall blew leaues Beslike the teerhof a faw :among whiclrcome the floures, con(ifting of 4 {mall heetes forth groweth whereof middeft tlie from tarre: ofa manner in ydabroad |