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Show 1458 Cnar.4é, Theatrum Botanscum, Trine 6, like Cherriesbut five feedesfor the moft part,being flacand white: the roote is wooddy with fome fibie ned thereto: this holdeth the greene leaves all the Winter. . Vacciniarubra buxewfolys, leaves, greene and round pointed ftanding onthe feverall branches, atthe toppes whereof onely, ard not from thefides,as inthe former come forth divers round and fomewhat long hellow flowers, ofa pale red colour, afrer whichfucceede round reddith fappy berryes,when theyareripe,of an acide and aftringent tafle ? the roote runs neth in the ground like the blacke : the leaves hereof fall not away in Winter. , 5. Vaceinit’'rubra longioribys foliys, Red Whorts with longer leaves, This other réd. Whorte is likea low cteeping fhrub,but groweth fomewhatthicker and greater thenthe former red,the leaves whereof are longer narrower and fharper pointed thenit, and growing reddifh toward Autume, but yet abiding onthe branches like the former, and not falling’ofin Winter: the fowersare like the other, and foisthefruite, but not fappy, or With juyce therein, but dry and fapleffe, and without any manifeltratte. 6, Uvaurfi Galeni Clufio, The Spanifpred Whort. This Spanife Whort likewife differech not much from the former red forts, having flender flexible (talkies and branches;about a foote long, lying on the ground, covered with a teddifh barke, {omewhat like unto the tender branches of the Strawberrytree, having fundryleaves {et thereon, neere refetbling the Straberry tree leaves butleffer, being thicke and {appy,but not hairy at all,and fomewhat bitter with the aftringent tafle: ar the ends ofthe branches grow divers bottle like or hollow round flowers, growing inclufters of the fame whitifh blufh colour that they are of, after which follow round red berries like unto {mall Cherryes, but of an acide tafle : the leaves hereof likewife abide onthe ftalkes and fall norawayin Winter. 7» Kitis Idea tertia Clufj, The French honey {weete Whortes. This rifeth higher then anyof the former, to be foure orfive cubits high, with fundrythicke fmooth wo ftemmes from the roote, the lower parts being fomewhat rough and covered witha blackith barke branchesbeing greene, ftored with many leaves thereon, fet without order, which are fomewhat roundneffe, anda little dented about the edges, of a fad greene colour above and very hoary und joynts with the leaves come forth many white flowers, confifting of five leavesa peece, after which come {mall round berries fomewhat bigger then Hawthorne berries,and blacke whenthey are ripe, having a {mail crowne as it wereof five fmall points which were the flowers, {ticking at theirtoppes, and being fappy of a fweetith talte like honey, with fundry blackifhfeede within them. 8. Vitis Idea Cretica elatior. The taller red Whortes of Candy. This {mall fhrabby plant fending forth fundry flender wooddyblacke fhootes trom theroote, the wood b ‘ing hard and white without anyfent, but fomewhat heating the tongue onthe talting, parted into divers branclies, farnifhed at the joynts;by unequal {paces, fometimes with finele leaves, butufually with two, and fom with three or foure together, which are fomewhathard and almoft round,dented alfoa little about the ed ing fomewhat like unto Holly, but nothing fo hard or prickely,of a fad greene colour on the uppet fide and grayifh the lower, at the ends ofthe branches, and at the joynts alfo with the leaves come forth fundry white Cherrylike flowers,cach ona long footeftalke,and after them {mall round and fomewhat long reddith frnite, of a pleasa eerie ta bigneffe of a Beane, having a freezy or woolly crowneat the toppes,and being dry turneth blacke and hard, 9. Vitis Idea Cretica humilior.. The lower Candyred Whorts. This other Candiot sroweth muchlower, fuller of {prigges flenderer alfo and fhorter whereon at unordinary fpaces, ftand unordinary leaves,three or foure fometimes together, being almoft round life unto the lat, bur lefler fofter,fmoother and not fo much dented about the edges, neycher yet of fo iad a greene colour onthe upperfide. norfo gray onthe under, atthe joyntslikewife with the leaves come forth long flalkes, with many thelike white bloffomes in aclufter, turning into {maller berries, of a darke fed colour, anda little downyat the heac ; fomewhat like unto Mirtle berties, which are familiarly eaten by the Shepheards, and others of the Country. The Place and Time, * The firkt growethin manyheathes,woods and barren hillyplaces of this Land, as Hampfleede Heath, Fin 4ey, and Saint Jobes wood, not-fatre from London, andin undry other places, The firlt red fortin the North parts, as Lencafhire,and Yorkefhire, onthehills, &c. The reft growir Hung avaria, and Germany, and in other Countries alfo, The fixth Clufsa foundin Sp and the branches and berries were fhewed me by Boel, that brought them out of Spaise. The feventh groweth 23 Lobe/ faith on everyof the hils in Provence of France, and Clufius on the hilsnigh Vienna, The twalalt in (4 Theyall lower in 4 and April, and che frnite of the blackeis ripe in Inne and July, the other later. The Names. The firlt blacke forts are taken generally bythe belt Jater Writers, tobe that is, Vitis exparte Ide, quam vocant Phalacras, but Pliny falfly put by them 7 itis Idea Th epbraftiand becau(e all the reft have arefembl likewife, with their feverall dittin@ions,as you fhall prefently beare : by divers,thinking the black fort to be the Vaccini a ofVirgil,8c by parva quafi bacca; but tharerrour i t y mong flowers,and not fruites; fora » Et funt Viole nigra, & Vat both alike,asa kinde of Hyacinth, whichhe might meane isas the. Violet flot have a Vaccinium which giveth a purple dye to fervants or others garments. purple colourwill the juyce hereof give,if it be rightly ordered. Iris ali lu Germanica, becaufe the Phyfitions and Aporhecaries in Germany and thole berries, and fo ufed themuntill they were (hewed their errour.and fince Gefneralfo in hortés fheweth, that {ome did take the Vitw Idea, to bet have Vin villus, ax ‘ that noble Vine growethnoton fo high or {powy mountaines, but rather in the Planes and by theindufiry of men, fom l- ke themtobe true Mirtle forlakenit, eth 28we have donealla, Currans, but faith he, op The firft Traguscalleth Adpreillies exiguus,and {0 doe Afatthiclus and Lugdunenfis. The Theater of Plants, Cuar.47. 1459. donauband Lobel, called it Vaccinia nigna, Anguilara,. radia Idea fratin nigro, Camerarim, Gefner and Claj.ns, Witis Idea uulgarts baccis nigris Cafalpinta Bagole primnm genus, Lhe {econd is calied by Zragu, Adgrtilus grandes, Red whorts with Boxe leaves, This red Whort rifeth up like unto che great blacke Whortshaving fundryharder leaves like unto the Boxerree : TF x ize 16, Dodona:ss and is the Witis Idea major of Thahusy the Vitus Ideafecunda five altera of Clufius, and the Vitis folys (ubrotundis exalbidis,although hehath tranfpofed fome of thefe titles to his fecond, which is my third whereof ongly Clafus maketh mention and callethichis fith,and Gerard,Vaccinia Pannonica, and Banhinws-calleth Vitix Ideafolijs ob!eng albicantibus. The fourth iscalled Vaccinia rubra, and Vitis Idea rubra, byall writera thereof : Gamerarius and Thalius fay that fome tooke it tobe Rous minor Pliny 5 and Clufius Vitis Idea buxetsfolys, and Anguilara Radix Ideafrudin rubro,as he did theblacke before, Radix Idea frutiu nigro, and Lugduner fis doth thinke that this is moft properly the Radix Idea of Diofcorides, The fifthis mentioned oncly by Gamerarins in borto, wha callesh it Vits Idearnbra Bavarica. The fixth is referred by C/a/ius to the ¢pxrs2:a@- of Galen inhis feventh Bodke, de compofit, med,fecundum locos, cap. 4.* and thereuponhecalled it Uva urfi Galeni, Bauhinws refereth it co the Vite Idea, makingit his fixth and calleth it Idea radix D iofcoridis alfo. The feventhis called by Clafius Vitis Idea ter= tia, not thinking his former tobe fo worthy of that name, Lobel faith the Frenchcall it Amelanchier, and doubteth if it be not that fhrub which they call. Aiifeer, Belonins faith, that their ~Aelanchieris called in Candy Agrio= meleaand Codomalo, but I thinkeheis deceived, that having blacke, andthis red fruite : Ge/z-r in his Epitties, as Clufing faith (ifhe meant this plant) givech it divers mames,as Myrromalis, Petromelis, Pyrus Cervina, and Pyras ter, Idea, Dalechampirs taking it tobe Cotongfier, Gefneri, calleth it Epimelis altera, but givethitred berries, which therefore I fuppofe may berather one ofthe two laft. The two laftare mentioned by Alpinus,in his Booke of Exoticke plants, by thename of Cera/as,and Chamecerafus IdeaCretica, thinking the former moft neerclytc be the Cerafus Idea Theopbrafti, The Italians did ufe to call the fir Martilo, bucnow Vite Idea, according to the Latine,the French Airelle and Aurelle, the Germanes Heidelbeer, the Dutch Crake befien, and we Whartsor Whortle berryes,and Bill berries with us about London? The Vertues, TheBill berries doe coole in the fecond degrce,and doe little binde and dry withall: they are:Hetefore good inhot agues,and to coole the heat of the ftomacke and liver,and doe fomewhat birde the belly, and ftay caltings, and loathings, butifthac they beeaten by thofe that have a weake or a cold {tomacke, they will muchoffend and troubleit faith Camerarizs, and therefore the juyce of the berries teing made into a Syrupe, orthe puipe of them madsinto a conferve with Sugar,will be more familiar to fuch,and helps thofe paines, the'cold finite procured; and is goodforall che purpoles aforefaid, as alfo for thofe that are trondled with an old cough,or withan ulcer in the Lungs or other difeafe thereof: with the juyce of the berries Painters tocolonr paper or cards, doe make x kinde of purple blew colour, putting thereto fome Allome and Galles, whereby they can make it lighter or fadderas they pleafe. And fome poore folkes as Tragus fheweth, doe take a portul! of ihe juyce ftrained, whereunto an ounce ofAllome; foure {poonefuls of good Wine vinegar, and a quarter ofan ounce of the walte of the copper forgings, being put together, and boyled all together, ito this liquor while ir isreafenable, but not toa hot, they put their.cloth,wooll,thred or yarne therein, letting it lye for a good while, which being taken out and hung up to dry,and afterwards wathed withcold waterwill havethe ifke Turkie blew colour,and ifthey would haveit adder, they will put thereto in the boyling an ounceof broken Gaules: Gerard{aith, that hee hath made of the juyce of the red berries, an excelleut crimfon colour, by putting alittle Allome thereto : the red Whorts are taken to be more binding the belly, womenscourfes, {pitting of blaod, andany other fluxe of bloodor humours,to be ufed as well outwardly, as inwardly. lovis baba frntix, The Silver Buth, Guar, XLVII. Lovy b.rbafratex, The filver Buth. ) His beautifull fine bufh growethto the height of a ‘man, witha numberof flender branches, thicke bufhing ont onail fides, whereon growlong win- ged leaves made of manyfmall_ones like Lentill leaves, but narrower, each fet againft other, with an odde oneat theend, ofa faire greene colour on the upperfide, and of a filver white fhining colour underneath, the young leaves being alfo of the fame colour : atthe endsof che branch ftandethlarge umbels of yellow flowers, made after the fathion of broome flowers, fet in grayifh huskes, like the heads ofthe three leafed graffe,after which come {mall narrow fhort pods, foft and grayithlikewife, with ewo or three {mall round,and fomewhat long blackith gray feede in them: the rooteis hard and wooddy: this isvery tender, not induring our Winters, although hon{ed,nor any where in our Country, but in a warmeftove,where the fire gay preferve it from the cold, whichit will not abide early or late-tharis,it muft be houfed betimes,and not fet abroad too carely, The Placeand Time. Ttgroweth onthe hill SerinsPreailed Cap de French, not farre ftom Agatha, by (Mompelier, fo upon Mons niger not farre ftom Ligorne in Twfcany. And flowreth in C€Mcy in thenaturall places;the feede being ripe inJay. i: The Names, Ufinde none ofour mioderme writers,to have made mention hereof, before Anguilara (who found iton the blackehill |