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Show easily 1596 a, ila ae An Appendixte the Hiftory ot Plants. SUEEEnEneneeneeeet 3 TeaeeeS Thisis bigger than either of the two former, hauin g whiter i and more fi i che ieee aie tong and hard to breake : the vpper branches are toed — ciatecst F Fk heads, fet thicke.withlittl e leaues like Stone-crop, and of the an €:the floures ate like thofeof the former; fometimes greenith sea ee ~ a6 ~ . not obferue the fruit, but faith, it floured at oth Cneorum album folys arzenteis. White Rocke Rofe. the fame time with thefon in - grew in : fo xe fea coat, from the Straits of Gibralter ,to the Pyrenzan mountaines a ufus Pantius called this Cacoron : Lobel and Tabernamontanus call it Erica Alexandrina, =a 3 Sanamunda 3.Cluf. The third Heath Spurge. ; 1597 teaw;whofent it toClufius, would hatte itta beand cal it Dorycnium:Itis a thrubby herb fending from one root mary fing!e ftaikes fome halfe cubit or better high :.the leaues which grow vponthe ftalkes'without order, ate like thofe of the Oliue, but fomewhat narrower, and coueredouer with a foft filuer-like downineffe : at the top ofthe {talks 4 Curorom <Mattbioli, grow manyfloures cluftering together, of the fhape of thofe ofthelefler Bindeweed, but white ofcolour. This growes wilde in fomeparts of Sicily,whence Cefalpinuscalls Rocke Rofe. it Dorychnium ex Sicilia, gq The Temperatureand Vertues. The three firft are very hor, and twofirkk A hauea ftrong purging facultie,for taken in the weight of a dramwith thedecoction of Cicers they mightily purge by ftoole, both flegme,choller, and alfo waterith humours, andthey are often vfedfor this purpofeby the Countrey people in fome parts of Spaine. The faculties of the reft are not knowne, not written of by any as yet. Chamebuxus flore Colutee. Baftard dwarfe box, Cuar. 5. OfBaftard dwarfe Box. q The Defeription. EPs which Clufius for want of a name 4 Thisalfo may not vnfitly bee ioined to the former,for it hath many tender fexible ough branches commonly leaning or lying along vpon the ground,vponwhichwithout order growleaues greeene,skinny,and like thofe of the true TAymelea;atfirft ofan vngratefull,and afterwards ofabitter tafte,yer hauing none or very little acrimony (as far as may be perceiued by, their tafte: ) the floures grow vpon the tops of the branches fix feuen or more together, confifting offoure little feaues of a reddith purple colour,very beautifull and well fmelling, yet offending the head if they be long {melt vnto: thefe are fucceeded byfmall berries,ofcolour white, conta ining a round feed, couered with an afh coloured skin. The rootis long, ofthe thickeneffe of ones litele finger, fometimes blackith,yet moft commonly yellowifh,tough,and fimalleft atthe top where the branches comeforth. It floures in Aprilland May, and ripensthefruit in Iune: it floures fometimes thrice in the yeare,and ripens thefruit twife,for Clufins affirmes that twife in one yeare he gathered ripe berries from one and the fameplant It growesplentifully vpon rhe mountainous places ofAuftria about Vienna; whither the countrey womenbrinig the floures'to the marketin great plenty t0 fell them to deck vp houfes ; it grows alfo in the drymedowes by Frankford on the Mcene,where there is-obferued avariety with white floutes.azatthiolas would hauethis to be.the Cneoron album of Thes- phraflus » Cordus calls.it Thy clas minor sit is the Cacoron alterum Matthiolizand Oleander{yl.Auiceré Myconi,in the Hift. Lugd. The Germans callit Stein Rolelinsand wee.may,call it Rocke Rofe, © dwarfe Oleander, é 5. This plantby Bawhine is called Crcornm' album folio olee.argenteo molli - and by Dalechamptxs Cneorum albumwhichhath been the teafon I haue putit hereyalthough Cafalpinus, Imperatysand PlaCh, calls Anonymosflore Colutee : Gefner called Chamebuxus: to which Banhine addes flore Colutee;and Bejler in his hortus Eyfletten(is, agreeable tothe name J hauegiuen it in En. glifh,calls it Pf udochamebuxns, tis afmall plant hauing many creping wooddy tough roots, here and.there fending forth {mall fi- bers; from thefe ariie many tough bending branches fome {pan long, hauing thicke fharpe pointed greene leaues, almoft like thofe of Boxe, and thefe grow vpon the firtt ftalkswithout any order, andwhen you chew them theyare of an vngratefull tafte, afterwards bitter and hot ; at the tops ofthe leaues branches,do come ‘forth among ft the the moft three or foure longifh floures, for places they part without fmell; yet in fome Narcifles 5 (mel! {weet, likd as fome of the ; two they confift of three leaues apicce whereof ate white, and fptead abroad ‘as their wings, av ybitith little hood couering in forme of lowerends : the third is wrapt vp ‘vane & croo! pipe, with the end hollow a eR hig |