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,,____,._ ____ ._,.. . . -——————-«—~*'"""f wholly, yet either in leafe or fruit, or in form other thing,Vi‘tés 4164 é- nzgm, that is, the white 39d

blacke Bryonies,haue leaues and clalping tendrels as hath the common Vine, and clyme at‘-§’;{l.t: the fame manner : Vitidfy/tt€ﬁrIJi‘,0I the wilde Vine,hath fuch like ﬁalkes as the Vine hathian l gall; forth fruitlike ttpltltlf littl1tiGrape;. Lama Alix1:znolrinfiz,and Cbﬁingdap/me, anddalfol mes mt Q are ike in eaues to t e aure tree: ycomorm is i e in ruit to t e ig tree, an in € ‘ . " Mulberry tree :C/Iamamirys hath the leafe of an 0ke;Pmcea'zmm of the Pine tree zfo of 0t_h€’5 w ‘it haue taken their names from fome other : but this low {hrub is not like the Vine eitherin an)’ F3 ’ or in any other thing. “I d This Vin‘; I//tea groweth not on the vppermoft and fnowie parts of Mount Ida (as fotne_ W0m_ hane it) but about lda, euen the hill Ida, not of Candy,but of Troas in the leller Alia, which . lomie in his fifth booke of Geographie,chap. 3 . doth call pdlexandri Tro4a,or «_/Ilexander his: Tfgs; whereupon it is alfo aduifcdly named of Pliny,lilv.14.ca,v. 3. Vitis L/flcxdﬁdrimz, no otherwife raw uilexandrina Laztrm is faid of?/reoplmiflua to grow there : Laurm, fyrnamed Alexandrina; and F"O_ qamdam, or a certaine Fig tree, and A'imi.:, that is to fay,the Vine, are reported, laith h€,_t0 grow Pr: perly about Ida . Like vnto this Vine are thofe which P/yiloﬂratw in the life of Ape//omI¢5_ “P0”? to grow in Maeonia,and Lydia,l‘cituated not far from Troy,comparing them to thofe Vines W doe grow in India beyond Caucafus : The Vines there, faith he, be very fmall, like as be thofe tliatf at grow in Mceonia and Lydia, yet is the wine which is prelled out of them of a maruellous plea 3 taﬂe. V This Vine which growes neere to mount Ida is reported to be like a fhrub,with little W 158.3 of branches of the length of a Cubit,ab0ut which are grapes growing allope,blacke,of the big“ ’e my a beane, fweet, hauing within a certaine winie fubfiance, loft : the leafe of this is round. V95“: 21 little. i V This is defcribetl by Plz'ny,lz'5.I4..cap.g. almoﬁ in the fclfe fame words : it is called,faith hf: '4; lexaudriiza ruitir, and groweth neere vnto Phalacra : it is (hot; with branches a cubit longs W‘ 6, blacke grape of the bignelfe of the Latines Beane, with a loft pulpe and very little,with W)’ {W6 cluﬂers growing a{lope,and a little round leafe without cuts. my, I And with this defcription the little fhrub which the Apothecaries of Germany do call M7 0“ 2m doth nothing at all agree,as it is very manifeﬁ-,for it is low, fcarce a cubit high,with 3 6" fruit branches not growing to a cubit in length:it doth not bring forth clufiers or bunches,t101' Ye‘ tin, like vnto grapes, but berries like thofe of the Yew tree,not fweet, but fomewhat foure 3“ 3 10 g gent, in which alfo there are many little white ﬂat feeds : the leafe is not round, but mofe. , than rou'nd,not like to that ofthe Vine but of the Box tree. M0re0uer,it is though \ ‘§ .1 SW: found in Ita1y,Greece,or in the leffer Alia, for that Mattéiolm aflirmeth the fame to grow "0 AM. bug in Germany and Bohemia 5 [0 far is it from being called or accounted to be Vitxk I444 O‘ ‘ an 71924. - P The fruit of this may be thought not without caufe to be named Vaccinia, ﬁth they are b"“,‘§,5;3 for they may be termed of B46M,bCl'Ii€:S,V46‘6ini4,aS though they {hould be called Bacci7t‘i4- Mars letteth not that there may be alfo other V4m'm‘4’r: for Vminia is -minim dzétio, or a word of ‘ ,, ﬁgniﬁcations.Vz‘rgz'l in the firlt booke of his Bucolicksr Ecloe. ro.afﬁrmeth that the writ“’.‘' ,1;en cinth is named of the Latines,Vmz‘m‘mn, tranflating into Latine T/mcrims his verfe whit? it Out Ofhis tenth Eidyl. l

Km’ so’ To! {;tr'Ad.I in Q argguqﬁa ékzfmrayr .- Virgil : E: mgra Viola, ﬁmt dr Vavccinia niigra.

. . . w T W‘ 7'" “W” 35‘? -7- Of his Architeéture doth alfo diitinguifh Vminizim from the V iolet, “ml agcult ah» ‘hat of 1‘? 15 Wade 3_g_311aI}t purple -, which feeing that the written Hyacinth cannot P: a an npegs be that this Vzitcmmm is another thing than the Hyacinth is,becaufe it ferues £0 3”“: . e re. _ h 3,; 1’/ii’) %“0al’5~1 5 -651?. I8. hath made mention of Vntcim}z,which are vfed to dve b0ﬂd'ﬂaues g merits with,and to giue them a purple colour. _ . that But whether thefe be our Vaccmm or Whortle berries it is hard to allirme,e ipecially feeingw on Pliny reckoneth vp V 4c€mi_4 amongﬁ thofeplants which grow in watery places 5 but ours _ Italy. high places vpon mountaines fubjeéft to windes, neither is it certainely knowne to grow It; Wig: Howfoeuer it is,thefe our Whortles may be called I/4m‘m'a,and do agree with P/was and 7’ his Vaccim'a,becauie garments and linnen cloath may take from thefe a purple die.

, The red Whortle berries haue their name from the blacke VVhottleS, to which th€Y very like, and are called in Latine , V4cc'iﬁ1_'rr'7‘*:z6rn‘: in High Dutch , agontet $99321 9 Len: Patch: moons slicakebeﬁan :: 5129 E5sn9h:insn.~ s.4.»r_s/in Rweer .-; they he assess! in

Fit 5. Of the Hiﬁorie of Plants.

Red V/Vorts, or red \/Vortle berries. Coﬁmdm G efnervu hath called this plant I/itzk Ialea ruéris mm‘: : b“: {be growing of the berries doth (how, that this doth farre liellehagbrlee with Vin‘: Iaiea, than the

c - , - . ' . - that:§é(:l.E(3:l(;§tl;e§lag¢<?fOtl:lSCOl%l':1:l§§l[t::i3;s §>ntC1<iuM?1r‘-‘S1:(Whrch deceiued them As conbcerning the names of the other thpy are touched in their feuerall defcriptions.

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fo Thefe Vaccinia or Wortle berries atﬁizoldhudhaidihdldter end of the fecond degree,and dry al; awllll a manifeft afiriétion or bindinc quality.

Red Wortle berries are cold and drb and alfobindin '.

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Theju ce of the blacke Wortle berries is boyled till it become thicke, and is prepared 0,. k

by addinghony and fugarvnto it : the Apotheearies call it Ro6,which is preferred in all th inc; A Ore the raw berries theinfelues -, for many times whileli they be eaten or taken raw they nrezpfen_

me to a weake and cold ﬂomacke, and fo far are they from binding the belly, or flzaying the laskc,

i lsthftt they alfo trouble the fame through their cold and raw quality, which thing the boyled

NYCC called R96 doth not any whit at all.

They be good for an hot ﬁornacke, they quench thirli, they mitigate and allay the heats ofhot ,3 “wing agues,they Prop the belly, ﬂay vomiting, cure the bloudy ﬂix proceeding of cholcr, and “PC the felonie,or the purging of choler vpwards and downewards. _ .

e The people of Chelhire do eat the blacl:eWortles in creame and milke, as in thefe South parts C “ate Strawbetries,which {top and binde the belly,putting away all the deﬁre to vomit.

The Red Wortle is not of fuch a plea? ant talie as the blacke,and therfore not ('0 much vfed to be D

em?“ 5 but(as I faid before) they make the faireii carnation colour in the World. ‘ ‘a a“

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an 1 or He Maxim Vvortleberries grow vponthe: - bogs in mari{_h or rnoorifh gr0unds,cree.. ping thereupon like vngo wilde Time, hauing many {mall limmer an tender flalkes laid al. molt flat vpon the ground,befet with final nar. - 9 .. ‘ . rowleaues falhioned almolilike the leaner of \,,%,‘p ‘g A .é I . 4 '1:hym§,buetlelll1‘<(:r:amon% wlnpchco-me forth ‘.3-ah t, R gel/r»\ little cm s i e vnto t e common blacke

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§ xi,‘ \‘ .1, Wortle berrie in fhape,but fomewhat longer, _ fornetimesall red, and fometimes fpotted or ég c.,\{, \ , fpacked with red {pots of a deeper colour ; in ” The Marilh VVortle growes vpon bogs and fuch like waterilh and fenny places,efpecially in Chefhire and Staffordfhire, where I_ hag? found it in great plenty. ,

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The Berries are ripe about the end of Iuly,ancl in Auguﬁ. T/Je Names.

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3 They are called in high Dutch, glpofgbetten. Mﬁetlbtfiﬁn : that is to ﬁll’: F€“‘G"3P59s0Y F6113

"essand Marifh-worrs,or Marifh- Berries. V alerim Cordm nameth them 0"}'.‘”“”"'*' " We haue C31‘ em V4cciniapalufz‘ria,or Mariih Wortleoberries,of the likenelfe the)’ ham to the 03175‘ b€FYi€5= ealfo call them MolTe—Berries,or Moore-berries. .1. qt 7'/Je Tempe_r.4:urc. _ _ w - hefe Wortle berries are cold and dry,hauing, withall a certain thinnelle of parts and fubﬂahcea

It acertainc binding quality joyned. q T, ' k ' ' " ,7.-5'