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Show i. Cuar.38. i Theatrum Botanicum. Trisx,2, he elder boughes, having a whiti( bagke, and the younger greene; withfoure brownifh lines jeaimee all the lecagt of them, whieh make them feemefoure {quare, the wood is fomewhar whitith, hard, andyellow, it hath diverfe branches, whereon doe grow faire and darke greene long leaves,broadeft in the middle, from among which comeforth long {talkes, whereon ftand foure orfive white flowers, cluttering together, confifting of foureleavesa peece, with fome threds in the middle, after which come round hard huskes or red berries, divided into foure parts, in each whereof lieth a white hard feede, covered with a yellow skinne, which will givea yellow colour, ifit be put into water: the rootes are many ,not runhing deepe intothe ground, bue fpreadingrather under the upperface thereof, ; ; 2, Evonymys Pannonicus. The Spindle tree of Hungarie, The Spindle tree of Hungary, hath diverfe gentle and pliant ftemmes, rifing from the roote, which gtow tobe three or foure foote high; and ofthe thicknefle ofonesthumbe, covered with athicke greene barke, with many blacke fpots therein; divided into many other leffer branches, {et ina feemely or comely order one above another, about which grow many’ leaves, fet oppofite ore unto another, fomewhatlike unto the greater Mirtle leaves, but more gentle in handling, lightly dented about the edges, of a drying tafte at the fir, but afterwards fomewhat bitter; and hot, from among theleavesat the joynts.of them come forth {mall long ftalkes, with two or three flowers on each of them,confifting of foure leaves apeece,of a fhining purplith colour hanging done their heads, and with a {quare umboneinthe middle, which grow intoa foure {quare head or berrie, fike in formeuntothe former, fomewhat {pongie or light, of a faire yellow colour onthe outfide, whereinlie fhining round feede, blacke on-the outfide, two or three lying in onecell or partition, which are very like untoth e feedes The TheaterofPlantes. Tribe 2. CHar, XXX1X. Rhamnusfolutivusfive Spina Infettoria, The pirging Thortie. is Clafsis, otters for another, as fall be thewed in ; fere are divert ie rich Fs SeOradiketrbaln. ida the erotiledge but of one eid owe eet inhiPasnonicks obfervationsfet forth a ee Ho reinwie. ae iat ,i ‘ 1 r place,vulgaris, that is totheThe'common kin My mult referre the etMeanie purging alg ibebelie Wolk , sing thorne, that is frequentin our owne Land, is for the moft part birt a cel eset “o Pale bulbs The purging hin bigge cr like.a tree, having many ftemmes or branches rifing pe roecee feldome prowringany intscedbathe on the outfide, and greene on the infide, the innermo! ; sing ye or ofawhitith yellow; toward the outfide, and of areddifh yellow inward, and at the hearr ee 0 YTAUU. hi ag S Wi4, iA Peller calleth Balfamum Alpinum: but Clufius fhewethplaine fquare head or huske, Ithath beene corruptlycalled ly, that it cannot agree therewith, not having a foure Anonymus ofdiverfe, inftead of Evry i Fift, faith, Tragus miftaking it calle dit (arpinus. dys i Iris called i alfo Fufanum and Fuforia, beca eda, led it Fuzfaro, as being ufed by Turners anscaland ars, to make fpindlesfor {pinni by Bauhinus Evonymus vulgaris Sravisrubent ng ve. ieee ae = ibys, The fecond is called by Clufius Evony by Camerariys and Tabermontanus mus alter, vel Jecnndus Evonymus Pannonicus, and by Bauhi nus Evonymus grants pies Thelaft called Evouymus five latifolius by Clufivs is and all others. Itiscalled and Prickwood, and in fomecountriesof this in Englifh Spindle ‘tree, Pricke timber treé land Dogge wood, and might from the well becalled Square berried tree. ‘The forme of the berries, as talians callit Fufano, the French F; y Spindelbaum, che Datch Papenhaut f ; fae, the Fron ifin,aud bonnetdep;ey effre, the Germans = The Vertues; This is {eldome ufed in Phyficke foure kernells will purge both by vomiwith us for to hel tin WH Ws x bred j SSWW Z Y experience that three or ) i phraftus, and from hire diver choller and flegmeto‘be avoided, Theo~ fe others, hay: e faid that the leaves hereof are pernicious and deadly, efpecia Sheepeand Goates, unlef le they be purged by Ansckus (which lly to wordis not well knowne what it donaus interpreting it, that they meaneth) Dofhould be pl urged upward and downewar fhould be purged by want or abftih nence d,and others underftanding ir, that the thatfaying of T;heophraffus, to be hurtfiallfrom meate, Dalechampins as Lagdunenfis fetteth je abeine Seat hoeth uponthe fhrubbés that grew with this, to Goates by his owneexperience, who faw flockes of Goates feedi ng but none of them to touchit,and thatt hey refifed to eat it being caft unto omit bur Clafius faith the cleane contrary, thathee underftood the th me Goate thereof, and tooke no harme there s in by, -and that the Hungarians Hungary did greatly aes to eate Kechke rago fa, id eft capris rofa arbor, in their language call this fhrub be the Goate s Rofe tree, fo diverfe be the writinss and opini . whereofin many other things we ons of mets have fufficient experience, = Cuar \y gS Ke qj HEP aUy My 4, = LAN paER: SAA ce v mM nr . We i | aM STIs ai eg ee MY CUE Ce, IV) The Time. Viiffes Abdroandys Nerinm Alpinnm ~ I jNT if Meg ON CAS UK : EENGes O f Hey ~ ie ’ The Names, This is generally by moft Writers called Evonymys, and taken to be the true EvoviuG of Theophraftus boni nominisin lib,3, cap, ultime, and quafi which hee calleth Tetragonia tranflated Quadratoria by Gazain his third Booke and fixt Chapter ; but there are diverfe, and Lygdune nfis with them,that have rathe r judged an other fhrubbeto be Evnonymus, which Gefne his Epiftles, and Clufias in his hitto Ledum, and isby Clufius called Ledumrin bint rate a kinde of cAlpinum, (which I have remem ry The leffer puirging thorne of Hungary. The commen putying Thornes is called Lateramnis, and which the Germanes call Witde(ch landt beyond the river They doe all lowerabout May, and their berries are ripe in September, 2. Rhamaus-folutivas minor Pannonicus: i. Rhamuys folativus feu Spina infelloria valgaras. ofbaftard Dittany. 3. Evonymusl.tifoliys, Broad leafed Spindle tree of Hungary, This broad leafed Spindle tree,rifeth up (if itbemanured). tobe higher than any man, fpreading his flender pliant branches, uneafie to breake, whereon doe grow many faire broad largeastHe leaves of Lanrocerafus, or Cherry Baytree, lightly dented greene leaves, fet by couples, and’as about the bitter tafte ; at the joynts betweene the leaves and ftalkes {pring forth long ftalkedges, an d of anunpleafant and endofthem, hanging downetheir heads, confilting offoure white broad le aves es, with diverfe flowers at the , tending toa flefh orbluh colonr, very like unto the common Spindle tree, which turne into foure {quare heads of berries, and fometimes in. tofive fquare berries, but muchlarger, having certaineli fts like to winges tained white graines or kernells, covered with a yellow skinne as inthe firfl.on every of them, wherein are cone ; , The Place, The firft groweth in many places ofthis Kingdome, and untilled places, and ferveth fhrubbes for hedges ; the fecond Clufiw found both ininthewoods her upper and the lower Hungary wponthofeamongot hills that funne to the Alpes, as alfo in Moravia in the woods , there. Thelaft was found by| ClyClufius alfo, ! I - of Hungary that ina woodin that brsiude tae —_—_— EH()NieV aN iL VA |