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Show 1446.Cuar.qr Lyrea,_ T beatrum Botanicum, Trrpe 16. yas Lugdunenfis taketh it. fome read Lacara, whofaith it hin the forme of the leaves, dente by (2falpinua,from the word Iletro, whereby the faith Alatrerno.and Lint ny other plants, but Da/s » 4 dif asB s Lebel faith, and yet I fince that sfaith, for as Cli cote NE) : The Vertucs, Therplraftus faith that Philyce haththe priority to feede fheepe in thatitisever greene: Anc the Portugals ufe the barke to dye their nets into. a red colous,and withthe chips of the wood they dyea blackifh blew colour. what like unto thofe of the former commonPrivet, but whiter, broader and more pointed, growing many fet onboth fides of aftalkebelow, but fingly upto the toppe at the joynts among thebrancheséf flowers, which grow ina loole tuft, fomewhat {parfedly, confilting of foure {mali grayith afh-coloured leaves, of avery tharpe and quicke fent,farre beyond the Privec flowers, atter which fucceede {inall round and white heads, foimewhat like unto Coriander feede, with three or foure blackith feedes within them: the leaves fall noc ofin Winter Liguftrum, Privet. yy Ecaufe our Privet hath beené fo often miftaken by many for the Cypras ofDiofc firt Authour of theerronr, who although 4b,12.¢.2 5. he faith’that Cypress i c Egipt,with a white fweete flower, and Coriander like feede, yet pretentlyafter f S} take this to be the {ames whichis called Ligufrum in Ttaty, and 4ib,24, c.10. hee ) rum is the fame tree that Cypr#s isin the Eat. Ithinke:it fr »joynethat Cipras of the Eaft in ter with the otherforts of Privet that you may plainely knowthe dive fity, and that all farther controy ceate. ay Lign, rm vulgare. Our common Privét, Our commonPrivet growethnot into any great bodyed tree, but yct itis catryed up with the many { branchestoa reafonable heigh: and breadth to cover Arbours, Bowres, and Banquetting houfes, and| wrought and cut into manyformes of men, horfes,birdes,8c.as the workemanli lt {upported at the firft withti ber,poles,and the like, but afterwards groweth {trongof it felfe, {ufficient to hold itinthe forme it is madein- to sit beareth long and narrow darke greene leaves by conples,and {weete {melling white lowers tr Ligattrum vulgare. Our common Priver, 3. Ligu/ZrumOvientale five Cypria Diofe ‘The Eafterne ever creene Pri Alerum a yellow flower, but is very rare tofinde differing in nothing elfe, which peradventare may bz that other fort ™énus that Lonicerns calleth minus, fore fub2. Liguftrum myrtifolinmItalicum, The Italian Mirtleleafed Privet, ate This groweth in the fame manhet thac the former doth, and {preading into branches that areronnd and fome= what reddifh,. the leaves are both longer and broader, comming neere unto the greateft Mirtle icaves, and ofa darke greenecolour. 3. LiguStrum Orientale five Cypras Diofcoridis & Pliny, The Eafterne ever greenePrivet, This aft CountryPrivec, ifirbe fuffered to grow at large without proining , groweth to beas great asthe Pomegarnet trec, whofe body and branches are covered with a whitith afh-coloured barke : the leaves are fome- 2,&c. and Jlatrxnfo Italians of Lucca call it as Clufrus {ai Bourgespine is by firft Cafeca,and the other Fi/ C ward. = ee endsofthe branches, which turne into {mall blacke berries. that hayea purplifh juyce withinthem, and fome feedes that are flat on theons fide witha hole or dent therein, Tragus faith that there is (ome found that beareth themPhillyrea by Baxhinw: not giving anypeculiar title to “Alaternus,itis catha Theoph The Theater of Planis, a The otheriscalled by Clafius Alaternus alter , by Le its ar the in tufts as our Privet doe,bat abide on frefhall the Winterlongyof which and the young branches being dryed and ground into pouther,is made agreat merchandifé chrongh all the parts of the Z#rkif Empire, and {ome ofhis bordering neighboursalfo,to givea yellow colourto their haire,hands,nailes,and bodies too, as al(o’for their horfes maines andtailes, forthe more pompeon feftivall dayes: of the rdotes faith Rawwolfias being burnt,the Arabians make their Spodinm,whereof Avicen {peaketh cap.61 7, The Place and Time, Our common Privet groweth in our owne Land,in divers woods, the next wasfent from Padoa and Venice, the lait groweth in Egipt plentifully, in Tripoli alfo and Syria, in fundry places : our Privet flowrethin Janeand July, the berries are ripe in Axguf? and Sc prember : the laft flowrethlate even in the warme countries, and the feede ripsneth accordingly : the other hath not as yet beene difcerned fo cxactly, The Names, This our orditiary Privet as faid before, was ufually taken by Tragus,Cordus, Ruellius, Matthiolus; Ami» tus Lujitanus and Anguilara who yet doubtechof it, to be the v'aers Cyprus of Diofcorides, which Pliny alfo nas meth, but Fuchfias as | take it, firlt doubted of it, anddenyed it to be Cyprus, and denyethalfo that it is certainely knowne by what name the Ligu/trum of the Latines was knowuie to the Greekes, and therefore Dodonens after Anguilara,doe appoint Philljrea to be it: but Pliny infaying Lignftrum isthe famé tree, that Cyprus is in the Eaft, as is before faid, bred this errour in fo many : but Cyprus of Diofcorides is {aid by him to bea tree, bur Privetis not fo, itisatree growing in Egipt faith Pliny, the belt is in Canope and Afcalone {aith Diofcorider, vhereby they both judged it tobe a ftrange tree, and nor naturall of Italy, as Ligu/frumPrivecis, It hath {aich ies Olive like leayes but broader, fofter, and greener, P/iny faith like Jujube leaves, but Privet leaves are rt broader nor fofter then the leaves of the Ollivetree, the feede {aid Pliny, is\ike Coriander feede, which ant by the whole feede,with the onter huske on it,for the feede within them isblacke, as Diofcorides com- hemto the feede of the Elder berries : the leaves aifo doe abide alwaies greene, bac in Privet they doe not 1¢ leaves faith Die/corides doe give a reddith yellow colour tothehaire, ifthey be moiftned withthejuyce binm(bucnot of Struthei mali which isthe Quince) before icbeapplyed, but Privet giveth no fuchcofour howfoever ufed: by all which notes it isevidenc that Lign/fram and (yprus be different one from the other; and cannot be both one plant, orhereafter tobe confounded together as formerly they have beene. The firltis acknowledged bythe name of Lign/tramby all Writers, although fome as | faid would make it alfo to be Cyprus of Dio es, and fome tobe Ph:dyreaas is before faid. cum The fecond Baxhinus calleth Liguftram myrtifolinm Iq faith it was {ent him by the name of Myrens ligsftrifolio The lalt Baahinus calleth Ligufirum En scum latifolium, becanfe he maketh two forts of thisonc, asbe doth in meny orher things betore, making of Raswolfias, fer torth in Bellonins his Obfervations by Clafivs, tobe one fort, and that of A/pinns anoentituled angu/tifoliem, becaufe sA4/pinas his figtire (as molt ofhis others are) is not foexaétly drawne, as Clufeus faith it fhould be: he faith alfo thar it is féc forth ip the hiftory of the Eaft Indies,part, 4, figura tab.1§, under the name of AZangoffans : but the cruth is, they were bothentended but for one plant, 4/pinxs faith thac the Egiptians doe nowadayes call it Elbanne,and Avicen withthe Arabians Alcanne and Henne, the Greekes now adayes Schenna as Ranwolfias faith. The Italians call the ordinaty Prive Gizftrico, Olivella Olivetta, and Chambr bi 1a, the Spaniards Alfenaand Albena,the French Troe{ne the Germanes Rhein weyden, Beynheltztin,and Munda 1¢ Datch Keelcruyt, and wein €aglifh Prime or Privet,and of {ome Prime print. The Vertuer, Althoughour ordinaryPrivet is little ufed in phyficke with us inthefe times, more then'to be put into loticns to wath fores and fore mouthes, and tocoole inflammations and dry upfluxes, yer Matrbiolus faith that Privet ferveth co all the afes, for which Cy prus or the Eaft Privetis appointed by Diefcorides and Galen: he further fuich, that the oyle rhat is made of the lowers of Privet infuled therein and fet inthe Sunne,is fingular good for tt eine flammations of wounds,and forthe headache commiag from choller or an hot caufe : a water allo thatis [wee is deltilled fromthe flowers, that is goad fora'l thofe difeafes that neede cooling and drying, and therefore hel- hall fluxes of the (tomacke or belly, bloodyflixes and womens courfes, if ir be either drunke or applyed, as forthofe that void bloodat their mouth, or at any other place,and for deftillations and rheume: into the eyess ially ificbeuled with T#tia: all thefe properties may fafely be transferred co the Eaft Priver, faving thet tof focold aconftitntion,yet 4s Galen faith it hatha binding quality from the earthly co!d fabltance it hath = 12 leaves and branches are ofa mixt temper, for it hath a digefling faculty with the warme watery{ubdrying, whereby it helpeth thofe places that are burnt, and cooleth hot Impoftumes and fores, and withouc anyfharpenefle : the poucher of the leaves ferve to heale the fores in the mouthor {ecret parts ‘manor woman,as alfo to helpe rhe moift {weatings and ftinke of the feete,by applying themas a plaifter mixed op with fweete wine: the Olewm Cyprinum,thac is weer mad made thereof, doth warme and mollifie che ae, and fintes, HAPs |
