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Show 659 Cuar.85, Theatrum ‘Botanicum. Teipe-s, forthem that {pit blood, andtoftayall bleedings, eyther inward or outward, asvalfoall fluxes or Latkes, and the aboundance of svomens courfes: the fame alfo ts very effectuall to wathfore mouthes, and the Vicers that hap- pen in the privy parts of manor woman : it is nolefle profitable in other Vicers of the body or legges, which are long kept from healing, by a defluxion of moiftand fharpe humours falling upon them, whichit confumeth and dryethup, thereby caufing the fores to heale the more {peedily : it likewife fodereth andclofethup the lippes of greene wounds, forit is very powerfull in confolidating,binding, and {trengthning any part, and isas effectu= allas any Comfrey for burftings, the {trengthning ofweake joynts, or any other binding propertie, whereunto T rape. 5; ’ The Lheater ofPlants, then it : the flowers alfo are fomewhat larger and ofa deeperco. Jour, and the heads of feede bigger, hard and hairy /as the other; with reddithfeede in them, and herein confifteth the chiefeft differences from them. 2. Ciftus mas folio breviore. Small leafed male Ciftus. any Comfrey may be applied : being bruifed and applyed tothe bitingorfting of any venemouscreature, it tay= eth the venome from further {preading, and healeth the party quickly ; efpecially it they take alfo ofthe juice, or the decoétion thereof in wine: the diftilled water of the herbe isheld to beantifie the skinne of the face, or more clammyand fweerer alfo thenany male Giftus : the flowers ; in the firft here fet forth, and are /alfogreener, ‘and rougher-4id ate of:a paler colour like:in forme untothe other, but fome what larger and.fweet,whichis not found in/any other ofthis fortsand Cuar, LXXXY. €iftus mas, The male Holly,or Sage Rofe. ‘ Small leafed male Ciftus, This fmall Gils foro T-maycall'it,as well ini fefpec ofthe gtowthbeing lower p:and the branches flenderer; then in any.of the otheriasin thatthe leaves hereof are {maller.and fhorter then any other part ofthebody. Cuar, 85. C1/tus mas breviore folie; Ecaufé J entreated in the lait Chapter of the {mall or Dwarfe Ciftusy which upon good ground as ¥ take it Lreferred to the He/eninm alterum of Diofcorides ; I thinke it not amifle here to profecute the 9 other kinds of Ciftus, whereof there are two principall, one that beareth the fweete Gum Ladanum, sev” and another that doth not, accordingas fome doediftinguifhthem ; or as others doe into male & female; yet fome make three kinds,and the Ciftus Ledon tobe the third, but it may bee comprehended under the female kind, in that it beareth white flowers as the female doth,- the male alwayes bearing red flowers : butbecanfe there is fo much varietie inevery of them, I will diftribute them into their feverall Chapters, not inten- ding to fpeake of thofe here, I have {poke ofin my former booke, which isone of eytherof the twofirkt forts, and twoor three ofthe lait,yet ifI give youtheir figures,it fhall be to fhew you their differences, f 1. Ciftus mas anguftifolius, Narrowleafed male Ciftus. This {mall Ciftus growethlike a {mall fhrubbe or bufh, with divers wooddy branches thereon, fet with leaves oneach fide two together, which are longer and narrower, fofteralfo, and notaltogetherfo hoary or wooloe that fort which Ihave already fer forth, elfe not differing from it, for the flowersare like unto thofe of the wildEglantine or Brier Rofe,of a finedelayéd reddifh colour, likeunto the other, as the heads and feede are alfo ; thisroote is wooddy and groweth not deepe : this is fomewhat more tender tokeepe,andwill lefle abide the injuries of our W interfrofts chen the former. ° pecrtts 2. Ciffus masfoliofubrotunde. Roundleafed Male Ciftus. This other Ciftus is fomewhat more Woolly then the former,and his leaves are larger,rounder,and more rough Ciflus mas vulgaris The more ordinary male Ciftus. 1. Ciffus mas Pifolius. f leafedee Narrow male Ciftys. abidelongerin theirhuskes before :they fall; in other thingsie differeth not. 4. Ciftus mashamila, ‘The low male Ciftus, This Ciftus groweth lower,bending downe his many branches from the roote alméft' to the grotnd, not mitch above halfea yatdlong; the leaves that arenotfét by couples, as in the other forts of Ciltus are {mall and crumpled, unevenly waved as ir were onthe edges'white and hoary: the flowers that ftand at the end of the branches are thany fer together ofan equall height; «ing forme ofan umbell,or tuft,or nofegay,but fmaller; yet ofa brighter reddifh purple,thenare in the {econd fort here fet. forth: the heads which containe blackith feede,» are {maller then in the other,and are almoft hidde in the {mall huskes that hold them: { The P lace; All thefe forts grow in Spaine and Portagall, and fome of them in France and Italy, The Time. Theyall doe Aower in¢Aay in their natural places, but about Midfomer with us,and fometimes earlier, The Names. Tris called in Greeke tisos andxisS@-s Ciftos and 'Cilthas which the Latinés alfo doe hold, not having any orher name whereby. to expreffe it: fome alfo call it sSuesv and xisswesv, Citharon and ‘iffaron,as peradventure derived from “9 Giffus Hedera, which canfeth Pliny hisertour ; for in writing of Hedera in his 16. Book® and 34: Chap. hee faithit ‘is of two forts; male andfemale,&c, which in his 24. Booke and ro, Chap, hee faith the Ciftus hath : but it maybee. Pliny was herein deceived bya falfe copy of Theophraftus, which hee followed which had oss inftead of /s@ for Gaza in tranflating of Theophraftus, doth fall into the fame errour with P/“Y, making Hedera to bee male and female, with flowers like Rofes but affuredly. unlefle the copies were falfely Written, which bred that error, we cannot judge that Theophraftus,who had written fo exa@tlyin another placeof the feverall forts of. Ivie,fhould bé fo much forgottenin this, to fay Ivie hath fowerslike Rofes, 8c. Some call it Rofa Sylvatica : the Arabians call it Ramilt Sy WN i ITN K if Cs Wie Vee ©: Ml; ATTN cf Altheisor Tbaio althis the Italians Cifto mafchio: the Spaniards Corynacos and Effopa: the Pertugalls Rofella: the French and Dutcs Ciffe, and we in Englif male Ciftus likewife or the Sage Rofe, becanfethe. leaves of the one fort are rugged andhoarylike Sageleaves, and the flowerslikefingle Rofes, but why Geraxd fhould call it the Holly Rofe{ feeno reafon, having no refemblance unto Holly, but becaufe that name-hath beene long impofed uponit,I willlec it fo pafle. All thefe forts of Male Ciftus, with the otherfee forth in my other booke;are remembredby Clu/imsin his Hiftory of Plants,and neede not further amplification, The Vertues, Male Ciftus is drying and aftringent, and nor without fome little heate, yer fome thinke it to bee cold, and is very profitable to ftay bleedings at the mouth or nofe, vomitings, and weakenefle of the ftomacke, and fluxes of bload or humonrs in manor woman, as the Laske,the Blooddyflix, and a'l other extraordinaty fcowrings or loofeneffe of the belly,and womens inordinate courfes : the flowers faith Diofeorides and Galenare the purpofes,to be drunke inred wine, yet the leavesand young fhoots or buddes may bee i :andthefe applyed in a ferote to any {calding or butning of fife or water doth beale them quickly: they alfo braifed and layd to any greene wound,clofeththe lippes thereof andreftraineth the bleeding : the leaves alfo,and they oungfhootes boyled in wine, andfilthy or old Vicers wafhed with the decoéion thereofjyea although they be cankrous, eating or {preading VIcers, will wonderfully and quickly flay the freting moyft htimors,and dryand heale them: the diftilled water of the leaves and flowersis of the like efficacie; and in all things where thereneedeth drying, binding andftrengthning, this isto-very good purpofeapplied, 659 |