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Show 10206 Theatrum Botanicum. €uar.29, Triseg, Savina-vulgaris The ordinary Savine Tree. The Names, Cua P.29. 1027 TheTheater of Plants. JRrispey. 1 ‘Sabinabacciferamayor The greater berried Saying Trees Very many (as Matthiolus, Lacuna, Turner, Bellonins, Lobel, Dodonaus, (amerarius sCafalpinus Ranwolfins,Tha= lius,Tabermontanus and fome other ) doe take this Thorne to be O'fudrarSe Oxyacantha of Diofcorides which hee Batberybeing moytt and full of juice. Tragzs faith that {ome tooke the Hawthorne to bee Arbaims. But Theo phraftus his Oxyacanthaisneither Barbery nor Hawthorne, which in his firft Booke and 15. Chapter hee putteth ~e g wy . hee; aS WS VT nN > vy = eS, > = ‘eS tha, and {o doe Fuchfiut;Tragus, Cornarius, and fome other whom CMarthiolws juftly gainefayeth, for there is no Iiieneffe in he Barbery excepting the thornes (and yet in them thereisa difference) unto Oxyacantha,being nejther in formeof body like the wilde Peare, nor in the fruit like untoa Myrtle, dry and fryable eafie to breake,the = Sy RASS RY - others take itto be the O'fvexerS@ Oxyacanthus of Galen, which he likewile faith is like unto the wilde Pearetree in forme, and notunlike it in qualitie,fo thatthe ones mafculine the others feminine are but one bufh or tree, bythe judgementof many, the belt, Herbarifts although fometake them to bee divers, ,as Camerarins who doth make the Barbery bufhtobe the Oxyaeanthos of Galen, and not the Oxyacantha of Diofcorides, and {0 doe alfo Cordus upon Diefcorides and Tabermontanus,Hermolaus and Ruellius \ikewife doe take the Barbery to be Oxyacan. a NUR INNS Tr = RSS NR SS ¥ defcribeth to be like the Peare-treebut leffer, and very thotny,bearing a berry like pnto thofe of the Myrtle, but red, full and eafie tobreake, having a {tone orKernell withinit, fomealforhinke that it is ere of Dio/corides, KY among thofetrees that are ever greene,which cannotbe faid of eyther Barbery or Hawrhorne,for that in no place or countreythey are knowne to keepe their leaves,but to loofe them in W inter, but by the judgement of the beft \ y Ni SQ \ and moft expert Herbarilts in our times, the Pyracantha as 1 have declared in my former booke isthe true Oxyacantha bothof Diofcorides although hee hath not mentioned any fempiternitie of leaves, and Theophrastus alfo agreeing thereto inall things : Somethere be alfothat would make the Spiva appendix Pliny to bee the Barbery buth as Legdunenfis, but Clufivs is againft that opinionfor that therein there are thefe twodoubts, firft that Pl: ny if heehad meant the Barbery by his Spina appenaix would not have forgotten the three thornes that grow to« getherin the Barbery whichis emiment enonghtherein : and next hee would not have forgotten the yellow coJour, both in the barke ofthe branches and rootes : but the moft judicious of thefe later times, among whomis Gefner in hortis and Cla fins in hifforia have determined that Spina Appendsx Pliny, which foraetimesal{o he calleth Spinafimply, can.beno other thornethen this Hawthorne,which Tragu and Lonicerys tooke to bee Cyno/batos : ‘ ihe uN Ax HiANYEP Dy Theophrafti, and Cor dus in biftoriacalleth it Sorbus aculeara, Anguilara Spina alba vulgo, and Spina acutaas Do- donedoth alfo. Baubinus placeth itamong the Medlarscalling it Vefilus apyfolio/ylueftris[pinofafive Oxya= cantha, andas akinde thereof like “ife putteth the Pyracantha, but in my opinion he had done better and more rightly,to have referred them bothto the kinds of Services whereunto they better agree then unto Medlars, in that Services are {maller fruits as thefe are: the fecond here expreffed is mentioned by Dodonews under the name of Spina acuta bumilior ; the laft as a kind peculiar to our owne countrey as I thinke,1 have herefetforth unto you moreexaétly then Gerard, who ohely hada f{uperficiall notion or rather relation thereof. The Hawthorneis called by the Arabians Amirberis, by the Italians in fome places Bugaie, and in others Amperlo, and Pana’ or(o, bythe Spaniards Pirlitero, bythe French A’ubefpin (Ruellivs faith that the vulgar fort doe call it Senele, yet Luercetanm {etreth a fruit downe in fome of his receipts by the nameof fructus Senellarum in his Pharmacopea refrituta to be Paliarvs unleffehhee thought the Palinrus tobe the Hawthorne:) by the Germans Hagendorn, by the Dutch Hagendoren and by usin English Hawthorne, or Hedgethorne, Whitethorne and (Way or \May-buth, becaufe our ordinaryfort feldome or never flowrethbefore AZay and never after. The berries or the {eedes in the berries are generally held tobe a fingular good remedyagainft the ftone, ifthe powder of them be giventodrinke in wine : the fame is alfo reported to bee goodfor the Dropfie : buc whereas divers have attribuced hereunto a binding or aflringent qualitie Anguilara hisjadgement was(whom confuteth that Tragus who faith that the leaves,lowers & fruit are drying and binding,and thatif the fteeped three dayes in wine, and afterwards diftilled in glaffe, the water thereofdrunke is a foveraigne remedyfor the Plurific,and for inward tormenting paines: the diftilled water of the fowers by an ordinary way f eth, fajeli he, the Flux or Laske of the belly * the feeds cleared from the downe bruifed and boyled in win drunke performeth alfo the fameeffedt # the {aid diftilled water of the flowers isnot onely cooling but drawing alfo : for it is found by good experience that if clothes or {punges be wet in the fayd water and applyed to any both which‘are found untrue by good experience as Fuchfus,Cordiss, Ge{ner, Dodoneus and Lugdanenfis doeteltifie, yet Camerarius faith it i< crue in one kind that it bearethno fruit, bue not in the other, but Lebel faith the ordinary doth beare berries although but in a fewplaces and but feldome, and both of them holding their fruic on the branchesall the Winter,untill greene ones grow on them,and neverloofing their leaves, { 2. Sabina baccataaltera, Gentle Savine with berries, This other Savine groweth fomewhathigher then thelaft as ic groweth in Europe, and almoft unto the height of the Phenician or Cypreffe | ke Cedar, {preading more flender and weake branches whereon are fer {mall and long leaves, of a more gentle favour thenthereft .on the branches amongthe leaves come forth fuch Lke berries as the other, and very like unto Iuniper,, blacke place whereinto rhornes,{plinters,&c. have entered and bee there abiding it will notably draw themforth: the allo whenthey are ripe, and bat little bitter in talte,not altogether . The Vertues, vertues piven by Galex unto Oxyacantha doe not pertaine hereunto, for faith he the fruitthereof is not fower or harfh,efpecially whenitis ripe, but {weet and therefore more fit to open then to binde ‘the belly, and fitter to bring downe then to {tay womens monethly courfes:but che laft evinceth this errour. Cuap. XXIX. 2, Sabina baccata altera. Gentle Savine with berries. unpk afanc. The Place. The firft groweth in Candy. Mifia, and other thofe Eaft countries, the fecondon the mountaine Taurus, Amanus and Olympus: the other upon the mountainesin Aputia and Calabria of Naples, asalfo en the plaines of the A/pes neareunto Gratianople, The Time, Sabina. The Savine tree or buth. They abide ever greene, and thew their ripe berries not untill Ne fort of Savine [have expreffed and fet forth in my former Booke, the figure whereof I here fhew you againe,the other forts fhall be exhibited in this Chapter, 1, Sabina baccifera major, The greater berried Savinetree, The greater Savine tree that groweth withus fpreadeth not fo much as the former Savine dott Ty but rifeth more upright toa mans height (but Bellonins faithin Lib leconiferis that he fawitash an Almondtree on the mountaines Amanus and Olympus in Phrygia) {preading forth armes and br: j furnifhed withleaves, which at their firft comming forth are fomewhac like unto Tamariske leaves, but being “S growenold they are morelike unto the leaves of the Cypreffe tree, hard andpricking, andofa darke greene colour with an eye of blew fhadowing them of a fent leffe {trong and nothing fo fharpeas the ordinary: it hath not Beenie obferved to beare any flowersbut {mall roundberrieslike unto Iuniper berries, but greater and of a fharpe tafle, blacke when they areripe withan cye. of blew upon them like the Iuniper or the ordinary Savine,which divers have held to be barren, taking their authority from Pliny, who alfo faith that Rofemary be 1 nofeede both the Winter. The Names. Tr iscalled in Greeke BetS@-,Begv and BagaSew, Brathus,Brathy and Barathron, in Latine Sabina and Savina and: of fome Savi- mera; whyPliny fhould call Sabinaan herbe all doe much wonder, forall knew and him(elfe could not bee ignorant that both forrs hercof mentioned by him were trees: or fhrubbes: and nor herbes, Dodoneus feemeth to allude unto the Greeké name, Where he faith that P/iny in his x2, Booke and 1g. Chaptermentioneth Brutaarbor, and thinketh as divers others did, that Brute was taken trom Brathu by the tranfpofitioniofa letter,and is Pliny his Sauina atcera,which he faith wascalled: Cupreffws (retica’s but Lngdunengs |