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Show Theatrum Botanicum. 1, Phiflyrea latifolia aculeata, Prickely Mocke Privet, Trips 16, 4. Phibkyrea anguftifoliaprima. The frit narrow leafed Mocke Privet. Tbe Theater of Plants, ~Cua P,40. 14.45 SS OOSSas tree leaves are, and ufed in decottions are good againftthe ulcersinthe mouth or to wafh the teeth, thefe fame allo being drunke provokethurine and womens courtes, CriF: xe Alaternus five Philyca Theophrafti credita, Ever greene Privet. WES Aq Hereis fo great affinity betweene the former MockePriver, and this ever greene Priver, that divers y good Aurhourscall the one bythe othersname; as yon have in part heardin ce former Chapter,and fhall more in this, whereof there are two forts a greater anda leife. 1. Alaternus majorfen prior, The greater ever sreene Privet, i The former of thefe two fhrubs,groweth {ometimes calllike atree, with long but not any gréat branches,nor yet muchdividedinto lefler ones,and are covered with a whitifh greene bark,and with another yellowifh oneunderit,or more inward, whereon grow fomewhat broad leaves without any order, ofa mednefife betweenethe Ollive,and the ever greene Oke, but chicker,and flightly dented about the edges, and of a darke’ grcenecolour, of an unplealant ratte, and bitterifh withall, rhe flowers are many tufting togetherat the fetting toofthe leaves, and are of a whitith greene colour, there hath not beene any frnite obleryed to follow them, 2, Alaternus minor fen alter, Theleffer ever greene Privet. This other groweth lower by much, with a whitifh greene reddith barke mingled, the Jeaves arc leffer,roun= der, and dented about the edges, and ofa paler greene colour, the flowers are greater and greeter; fet together like the former, unto whichfucceede {mall round berries, greeneat the firlt, reddith afterwaards, and blackifh whentheyare ripe,having three {tones or feedes within each of them. The Place and Time, Both thefe were obferved by Clafius in Spaine and Portegall, They flower there in their naturalplace in Fe2 bruary,and the fruite is ripe in Way. The Names, Pliny calleth this Alaternus quafi inter Olenm &-Ilicem media, Bellonius in his firlt booke of Obfervations and 42 Chapter faith, that there isnone in mount Athos but knowethche trae name ofthat tree, that Pliny calleth Alaternis, tobe the Philyca of Theophrastus, bur thofe of Corcyra and Candy, call It Eraitery Elaprinus, It is the firlt Alaternus of Clufivs, andthe A/aternus Plinis of Lobel, Cafalpinus as Bauhinus faith, but I thinke rather it fhouldbe Lugdunenfis, calleth it Celaftrus mat Theopbrafts and Cafalpinus Phillyra mas Theophrafti 3 Lugdunenfis taketh ittobe edpharca Theophraffi,whichthey of ALompeliercall,as {aith Lobel, Bourgefpine fomealfocallit Phia eafie to breake, nor fo plentifiilo:rchicke growing asthe a ‘ x, Alaternus majore The greater ever greene Privet, 3+3-.5Philyfoliondalatoferrato,e>e fere nonferrato, eo angustifolia former, with“leaves fet one againft another, matrowelywith lege neni eee Toothed Mocke P tivet,and Yes,and the ether narr ow leafed Mock Priyer longer, and of a darker greene colour, this was faid to beare neither flowernor feede, which matteris difproved, and found co beare both, and like unto the laft, The Place and Time, Clufins obferved thefe five torts in Spaine, Portugal, and France. They flower in che Spring,and their berries are not ripe untill icbe verylate in the yeare, The Names, Divers learned men did take the eaves Phillyra of The- ophrafts, which we have fhewed you tobethe Line tree,to be this use Phillyrea of Dofcorides, being deceived by the vicinity of the names _uatill (rds, who better confidered them,found them muchto differ, as well in forme asin properties, fince whofe time all that have followed him have (0 aecounted of them, Zobel faith, he would rather read it 9Acaaiz or Olea amafiaakinde ot wilde Ollive, whercuntoitis moftlike, or little differing: The firlt is the firlt Phillyrea defcribed by (/nfus, and fois my fecond his fecond Phi'yreaalfo : The third is the firt Phillyrea of Afatthiolueand Lobel, and the third with (lupe, and is the Phillyrea of Bellonius and Ge(ner in hortis, Dodonews calleth it Cypriss latiorefolio, and Lugdunenfis eAlaternus man jor Dale bampij,and of Cafalpinss Ilatrum, and Phillyra of 2 heopbraftus, Bambinus callethit F billyrea folio Liguftri. The fourthisthe fourth Phillyrea of Clafius, the Phillyrea an eujrifelia of L bel, the eAlaternus ‘minor Dalecbampiy of Lngdunen(is, and the Cyprus of Dodoneus. The lalt is Clw- fiws his fifth Phillyreaal(o, and both thefelaft are called by Lobel,Narbonenfis, The Vertues, The leavesof this Mocke Priver are binding, as Di/eo- tides faith, andare of the fameeffect that the wilde Ollive 2, Alaternus minor, T he lefler ever greene Privet, |