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Of the Hiflorie of Plants:

_ The T emperatrrre. ‘Heath hath,as Galen faith, a digelting faculty, confuming by vapors : the Homes and lean to be vfed.

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‘ A T he tender tops and flotires,l’aith Diofeorieies, are good to be laid vpon the bitings and fliflgmgs

ofatiy venomous heal’: : of theft-. fioures the Bees do gather bad hony. _ _ 3 The barks and leanes of Heath may be vfed for,and in the fame caufcs that Tarnariske is vfCd-

. ' hi! 1' Tlii: H_g;:.ii~-e wliicli our Antlmr gain: in the ninth place by the name ofE'rie1l:aeeif2*ralatifivlir: I take to bcthc Vitfa Idnrgz. offlafim (whlch you film find‘ 1” (luc1.:l;tcC)»'uI<llI1 llcadthercofl hair: giiicn you our ordinary bcrigwbcaring Heath.

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t .Ra/'51 H:‘erzTemrtea meijor. The Heath Role of Ierico.

IJ Tlae De[Er:'_ptio.»; I T His kinde of Heath which Ofthetfe ter writers hath becne callc_ Ythc name Rafa Hierieemtezz5 the coinet fp01 '3 - name in the mint,for of all plants that we h written of,there is not any more vnlike vntoh t Rofe,or any kiride thereof than this plant” moued them thereto I know notibut thus 6, ‘of my owne knowledge, it hath neither mafia, nature, not facultie agreeing with an)’ Om; the which donbtle {Fe is a kind of H eath: “sang. barren foile, and that among Heath, 0‘ here. dently fhew,as alfo the Heathie matte} W Rh with the whole plant is pofleflE:d,agr€€'Pg 1; the kindcs of Heath in very notable p0‘“tsf0u; rifeth vp out of the ground,of the heighto age inches, or an hand breadth, compaa °’ T1155) of fundry hard ftickes, (which are the fig.‘ a claf ping or {hurting it fclfe togcth“ round forme, intricately weaning it C C flick ouerthwart another,like a little I1 which wooddy flicks do grow leaus 0°‘ to thofe of the Oliue tree, which m3 e wig whole plant of a round forme,and hollow in 5 among the leaues on the inlide grow moflie floures,of a whitifh herby colour’.

2 Ii’r2j2z Hiemontea jz'eear.1 . The Heath/Rofe of Ierico dried .

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tiirneiiint;l e the feed ofRocl<ct,biit 1effcr:the whole plant is ofthe lirbftanceofheaih,

and wooddy, _ _ _ F 2 The fecond figure fetteth forth the dried plant,as it is brought vnto vs from beyond the ie:._$5

whichbeim, pet mm a dim gfwaflnc water,for halfc an lioure,opeiietli it felfe in fotrne,as nheitt 2 did grow,a§d taken forth vntill it be dry,returneth {hut againe as before.

qr 7'/J6 Place. ._ g L 4 7 _ 1! groweth in the barren grounds of ‘France, and other hot regions, among the Heath and fiiesgi L hkfiplants : it is a ftranger in England, yet dried we h.aue‘tl_1Cm_ 1“ ?»‘°a“R1°““-3.’-_* I ha“ 130? Y‘~“f1d’ “Of heard that this growes wilde in France 5 btitheflemwr {aitli IF grow“ 1“ AVL13 ‘["f"”4 -‘ 341551“ faith it eafily grew and flourilhed many yearcs in his garden at Bafill. 1“-

IJ The T ime: . The feed being fowne in out cold climate,is fowne in A pril

l 5 it pet-illietli when it is fprung vp, and bringeth neither floures not feed. ’

. . {I The Names. _ h ., R. F Clflico _ Gnome the Ron; This kind of Heath is called Rafi Hzerzeonrea,0r 46’ H167“ M576 0 E 0: ~ ' - > ~ ~.- r°fIerul'alem,and alfo Refit cjllétriaz : inEng11fl1»th° Heath Role‘

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