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Show soy. CMAP. 31. Theatrum Botanicum. inaiucanes 3- Chamelea four RELCIORE Grameireqces) = ms rat Drisz2 ° Trips 2. « Chameléa tricoccos, 7 Widow Wail, ate The Theater ofPlantes. Crap.21. abide greene all the winter; the flowers are very fmall, {carce to be feene, and come forth betweene the leaves and she {talke, of 4 pale yellow colour, contend ofthree finall leaves, after which come {mall blackith berries | three ufually fet together : the roote {preadeth not much in the ground but is hard and wooddy,. dying oftentimesif it be not well defendedin the extremitie of winter. 6. Sanamunda prima (lufii,, The firt Spanifh Spurge Olive of Clufins, This kind of Spurge Olive hathdiverfe flexible pliant branched. {talkes, tifing upto a foote anda halfe high, covered witha blackifh barke, and underit witha gentle {maoth one, which may be eafily.feparat ed into long threads: having many {mall and fomewhat long hairie leaves thicke {et on them, fmaller fharper and thicker than thofe of Chamelea or Dwarfe Bay, and commeth fomewhat neerein likenefle to the Sea 7ithymall, or Sea Spurge, but fomewhathayrie, of abitter fharpe and burning tafte, fomewhat clammie or gummie chewing : the flowers grow with and amongthe leaves on the branches, confifting of foure fmall'yellow leaves ainpeecesafter which come{mall blackith berries fomewhat like untothelaft : theroote is thicke long and wooddy. Clufius mentioneth another hereofwith fhorter leaves,and whiter or downie, and {mall yellow flowers in tufts, 7» Sanamunda3 Clufi, Thethird Spanifh Spurge Olive of Clafius, Thethird Spanifh kind of Spurge Olive; hath whiter and more pliant ftalkes; covered with a thicker barke, very hard to breake, the {maller toppe branches being almoft wholly white with doune, which bend againe to~ wards the ground; whereonare thicke fer a numberof whitith leaves, and thicke, covered as it were with cortener doune, fmailerthan the laft, and very like to thofe of Stonecroppe of a fharpe hot burning tafte : the eaees are {mall and greenifhor pale (faith C/4/ws like unto the others, the roote is thickeand wooddylike the ormer. 8. Sefamoides minus Dalechampit. A different Spanifh Spurge Olive. There is another fort ofthis plantas I thinke,that Dalechampins as Lugdunenfis to call Se(amoides mi wus, thatis in comparifon ofthe greater kind, wasfet forth by: hima little before,{aith,ufed not underftanding the minus ofDiofcorides, whichis a farre differing plant: but this Se/amoides mings Dalechampii, hath {mall pale greené leaves, ferabout the Woolly flalkes.; the fHowers come forth at the joynts with the leaves, which are {mall and white,and notyellow, very {weeteinfent,farre differing fromall the reft in fweereneffe, 9. Sanamunda Monfpeliacaglabra, Smooth French Spurge Olive, This greene or {moothfpurge Olive, hath a thicke white wooddy roote; )covered witha pale coloured gentle pliant thicke barke, from whence fhoote out many{mall flender branches,full of joynts, and of an hand breadth high: fi rar In VY : = J : oneach fide whereofare placed diverfe {mall fhort and narrow greene leaves, feldome tound pointed, fomewhatlike unto the leaves of Polygala Milkewort or Gangflower ; the flowers are {mall and yellow ftanding with the leaves and amongft them: the {cede hath not beene obferved, 10, Sanamunda Africana, Spurge Olive of Africa, This Afriean plant hath diverfé pliant ftalks rifing from the rootefull ofjoynts,and two {mall and almoft round t N leaves at them; which fometimes lye fo clofeto the ftalke, thatthey feeme to. be onely thicker joynts than the others the flowers areyellowith growing at the toppes ofthe ftalkes: the roote is long and tough, witha tugeed barke, 7. Sandmanda tertia Clufit. Thethird SpanifhSpurge Olive of Clafias; (ZO! Sanamunda Africana, Spurge Olive of Africas The Place. The firft groweth in manyplaces in Spaine, as alfo in Ftaly in Hetruria and about Trent as Watthiolus faith, and likewife in Narbone of France, The f{econd in Germanie,Bohemia,and Auftria: Thethird in many places of Germa= mealfo: The fourth inthe mountaines of Savoye : The fiftin Provence and Spine : the fixt inthe Countries of Granado and Valentiain Spaine as Clufivs faith, The feaventh both uponthehils, and neere the fea in fome places ofSpaine, Theeightbythe Seafide inthe IMand of Corfa, and is feldomefeene, either in Spaine, or France,The ninth was found uponthe hill neere AZompelier called Hortus DeisThe latt by Boetins often Italy, remem= 4 WAZA SS bred in this and my former worke in Barbery, Allofthemare very tender, loving onely the wormer Countries, and will not without extraordinary carebe kept in as The Time, Thefirft fowreth notin Spaine untill Inly and Auguft,but the reft fome in Tanuary or February, and fome in Marchand Aprill, in their naturall Winter. places, and many with us not untill Iuneor fuly, if they be preferved in thé The Names, 12 in Greeke is called Thymeleain Latinealfo withall writers, quafi Tithymelea, ex Tithymalo & Olea de 4. The Arabians call this ALefereon promifeuoufly with Chamelea Germanica, andTricoccos, the Greekes call the berries hereof, properlyxéxxoc uvi@- Coccum Cxidinm ox gnidium, as {ome have it, but as Diofcorides faith, are not thofe of Chamelea, yet afluredly the properties are not {o farre differing, bur that the berries of Chamelea may very well be ufed inthe want ofthe other: Diofcorides {aith that the leaves were called Cxcornng whereupon Guilandinus tooke this to be Cxeorum nigrum of Theophraftus , ashe doth the Cham-lea to ich Gazetranflateth Cafia )for hereofthey made two kinds,the one white the other black. de ftory ofplants calleth the Cucorum*Matthioli Thymelea minor whom Bauhinus followeth (and fo € 1 )calling it Thymeled affinssfacie externa, Butif 1 fhould in this place, uponthis occafion, to fave the often titions in other places, fhew youall the opinions ofother writers concerning (#eorum, whereunto they doe referre them, and their contraries, I thinke I fhould not doe amifle: Anguillara maketh Lavendula to he Cneo r4m album, and Rofmarium tobe nigrum, whom Aatthiolus refuteth thus, that Theophraflus faith both forts of r#m, {end downe long rootesinto the ground, and the branches are pliant and gentle, fitto binde things vithall, neither of whichproperties can be found in Layander Rofmary, Adatthiolus in his latt Latine editi« on; tetteth forth2 figures of Cxeorwm, the onein the chapter of ot (iamon, whichhefaith haththe true notes of Cxcoram album Theophrafti, and the other in the chapter of Thymelea, which he thinkethto be nigrum: and inhis third booke ofEpiftles, in that unto Joannes (rato, and in his fourth booke of Epiftles, in that to Bartholomeus Maranta,as well as in his Commentaries upon Diofcorides,in the Chapter of Cinamonhe is perfwaded that Theopbrafus his white or fweete Cneorum is the Cia whereof Virgill in his Bacolicke and Georgickes maketh fo often mention, and which Phnye alfo from the teltimonies of Higsnus, calleth Caffiathe fweete herbe and ae the |