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Show 172 9 COnar.io. - Theatrum ‘Botanicum. . 3. Convolvalus (pice foltt, Lavender leafed Bindyyeede. Me [' ! TRIBE.2. Lhe Theater ofPlants, Cuar. of this Land : the fiftandfixt were foundby Dottor Boelivs, (often temembred bothin my fortner and thig worke)in Barbary and brought tous : the feventh wasalfo found by him in Spaino and Portugall ; the eightin many Cotintries ofthis Land,both in fields and elfe where, and will bee alfo foundas a weedein gardens,to be pulled out: theninthin Candy, andthe laft groweth about Drayton neere Port{mouth, The Tyme, They fower in Summer, yet fome later than others oftheir kinde? The Names; . Theyarecalled Convoluwli e& Volubiles; quiacrebrarevolutione vicinosfrutices & herbasimplicer, Cinfius calleth the firit Convolonlus Althee foliomot knowing to whatplant ofthe ancients it might be referred, unleffe it might be the Jafione of Plinye, whereofhe maketh mentionin the 22, chap. of his 22. book; Gerard much miftooke this plant, calling it Papaver corniculathm minus, but his correcter hath amendedit : Fhe fecondis called Convolwulus 8 Volubilis minor by mot writers, yet fome Smilax levis minorag Dadonaus; and Helxine (iffampelos as Matthiolws 8 {omeothers,and taken to be the Scammonea tenuss of PUinysthe thitd isthought by Caffor Durantes to be Cantabrica Plinti, and Clufixs faith the famelikewile: of Cortufus called Scammonea Patavina, of Guilandia nus Helxine ftans, of Tabermontanus Scammonium minus; and of Lobelasit is inthetitles the fourth,fift, fixe, andfeaventh, have theirtitles intheir foreheades,as much as is necéflary to be fayd ofthem: the eight is thought of many to be the He/xine of Diofcorides, which wascalled alfo Ciffampelos,in Grecke tzivn'xsaxdumaG-,ab irxiy trahere velharere s G xsorduntrQ- qualivitealisfive Hedera Vitices y becaufe this He/xine differ from Parietaria, called Helxine alfos this moft commonly. growing in Vineyards, (honld be knowne to creeping up upon the Vines, witha leafe like Ivie :, Democritus in Geoponicss callethit (Meglacocilfos , quafs mollis hedera: Lobel calleth it Ciffampelos altera ok efige xgoo it ae Capel e cree niger: a"- lngciindaeingehclfeedfibene j "i i i éed ; é garden. ‘aneaed hairy very like unto Moufeare, the upper leaves being fmaller, and the flowerslarge, of a pale blufh . ike the fmall Bindeweede: the feede that followeth isblackifh browne, one in a {mall eehou ie threddie and bufhing,yet perifheth yearely. ate Si } tiniy 3 6 leu tr Convolvulus minor purpureus, Caraleus i ¥) inj ~ LipaseoFbleweBifidweede anid eede Vealatitey: : y at 8. Convolvulus mixor Atriplicis folso. Blacke Bindweede. ot raniCroonDigeraaabetrokeEl, glise ase GostHeed Ta kethit tobe Orobanche of Theopbraftus, which The ftalke hereofis much branched,and the branches alfo much divided, having two {mall leaves at €very joynt i A tinea folBeets Ace or Egyptian Bindeweede, folio 170, Gaza tranflatet Ervangias of Thalius in Harcjnsa fylua, Volubilis Columnacalleth it Polygonum Hederacenm: thé ninth is fo called by Ponainhis Italian Baldus, asitis in the title: the laft isnot {poken ofby any before. ee ¢ fF: , ak Bie { Theyare all ofthe natuiré ofthe other fmall Bindewee desno donbt, which is to m6vethe belly = yet Clufiue faichthe firft is ufed in Portugall, asan hearbe offingular effet to healé all fores or wounds; Ciffampelos , is {aid likewife to purge the body ftrongly, ifeither Z the juyce, or the leaves and herbe in powder, be drunkein wine . é . > or other drinke, The leaves being bruifed and layd on hard tumorsor knots inthe Ae(h, diffolveth and confire meth them. aN i @ RO 8 ba Cuap, XI; ay ry 0) GP = Ay Ly Smilax ajpera. Pricklye Bindweede, Here are twoforts of this Bindweéede, differine very notably both in | heare by and by: but there is another plant referred unto therm, whichléafé and fruité, as you thali is the Sarfaparilla, thatig | brought from the Welt Indies, whicti f matt adjoyne, and fpeake ofit alfo here. : 1. Smilax alperafrnttnrabro, Prickly Bindweedeé with redberries, t 7 This Bindweede groweth up with many branches, wherewith if windeth about trees, and other things, fet with many crookedprickes or thorneslike a bramble, all the whole lerigth,bénding this way and thar, in a feemely proportion; for atevery joynt itbendeth or boweth it fomewhat abroad and longleafe thereat, ftanding upona long footefelfe, firft one way and then another, having ftalke, and is broad at the bottome, wit twoforked roundends, and then groweth nartowet unto the point: the middle ribbe on’ the backefide of mow ofthem, having many {mall thornes or prickes, and alfo about the edges: the loweft being the largeft and growing fmaller up to the toppe,{mooth andofa faire greene colour, at the joynts with the leaves alfo, comeforth clafping tendrels,like as and {ometime {potted with white {pots: the fowersftand at the toppes of the branches, atthree or foure joynts,the Vine hath,wherebyit windesit felfe; {tre, which are white, compofed- offixe leaves a peece, ftarre fafhion andmany breaking forth together in dcla= fruits, which are red berryes when they are ripe, ofthe bigneffe of e-4/para{weete in-fent, after which coine thé gus bertyes ot {mall Grapes, and in N fomeleffer; wherein are conteined fometime two or three hard blackefton es,like alfo unto thofe of Alparagnss the rooteis flender white and long, inhard dry grounds, {preading farre but inthe loofer and moyfter places, running downe intothe ground pretty way; withnor diverfe knots and joynts thereat,and fundry long roote¢ running from thence, 2. Smilax afperafrattnnigro, Prickly Bindweede with blacke berryés. This other prickly Bindeweede,is likethe formerfor the thanner ofgrowingin all points, his branches being joynted in like manner, with thornes on them, but nothing fo many, climing as the former: the leaves are {mes whatlike it, butnot having thofe forked endsat the bortome of everyleafe likeit, but almoft wholly round and broad at the bottome; of a darker greene colour alfo, and without any,or very feldome with any thornes ot Prickes, either on the backe or edges of the leaves, with tendrells like a Vine alfo: the flowers comeforth in the fame mannerandare ftarre fafhion, confifting offixe leaves a peece like the other; but they are'not white as they are, but ; Geass Bae ‘This onely ‘in the fmallne rlsesalsonhe Aden Anglica vsmnma. black€ Bindéweede: » mling not above a hand breadth Small Wetede. high,differeth from the commion blacké BindeThe fc The Place: Rk \ fines Cai . many places of Spaine:t ufius faithhe foundin . : fecond,third,and Z he fourth,erow in fandry Countries . . To, of of an incarnate or blufh colour, witha round red ambonein the middle of every oné, whichis the bea ofthe berry, that whenitis ripe, will be blacke mei ge ae morehoe cceae Ses theae with ttones or kernells within them like untoit : the rootes hereof are bigger an ullerchan the former for thé moft part, and {preading further under the ground. " 3. Smilax afpera Peruana, Sarfaparilla of America , : ; 5 sehenperilsie ——— from aaa into so pein pea oe cichin cenetrefh, even the wholeplant asit hath beene brought from Spaine tothe Duke of his Phyfitian, being by asa winetie that in alt things Florence, Lucas Ghinné did pekcahs the prickely Bindwee dey and —— in Q3 nothing |