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-Winter. The whole fhrub looks asif it were fprinkled (met with dull. or 13; I To the fe may be added another growing withmany branches to the height ofa Sloe Tree.” eaueacke.Thorne,and thcfe are couered with a blackrfh barke,and armed with long ptrckles. The inu_5,is in the fitlhgtowlorth ofcertarn knots many together,long,narrow,flefhy,green,and con. felulng all the yeare:the1r tall 15 afirrngentfornwhat like that of Rhabarb : the flours {hew theme “S. at the beginning of the Sprmgpl a greemflr colour,grow1ngth1cke together,and neere the

Terr‘ . . . . - tafiéng On of the leaues : in Summer it carries a blacke fruit alrnolt like a Sloe,round,and harfh of

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i th The firfl or’ the le growcs in fundry places of Spaine,Portugal,and Province: the other varietie

thgrzofdlufiw faith he found but only in one place,and that was neere the city I-I_orivel_a, called by

end ntrents Orcell1s,by_ the truer Segura,vpon the borclers of the kingdom of\_fa1entr_a. The fa.‘

Th gF_0ws in many maritime places of Flanders and Horland,and in fome vallres by rruers fides, 3 third growes in the vntilled places of the kingdom of Granada and Murcia. $

_ G] The Time. L . V «i~n%{S Ram is euct green together with his leaues :the fruit or berries remain on the {hrub euen

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7 an ‘I/ye Names‘. ‘ _ _ b _ héltlle Grecians call this Thorne ‘paw: :the Latinas alfo Rbammzs : diners name it T‘¢Pm5uor,Acv7L<i1au8-£_ gleerbfiflard words, Marne/{us narneth it Spimzfizlatamgnd cr54fal:ft2rri5,whiCh hath,faith hee,as it or I? grape. It 15 called in Italran,M4rmco,and It/Mmno :1n S‘panr(lr,Smméram;: in’ Engl1[h,Rarn arts Thorne . {I The Temperature".

Tl‘? R'am,faith G.42cr;',d oth dry and digeflt in the fecond degree-,it" cobleth in the later end of the “hand in the beginning of the feconrd degree;

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t _The leauesfaith D'iofco'rioz’e:,are laid pu‘ltiswile vpon hot clrolericke inflamniatiohs and SM!»- me: fire,bu‘t we mull vfe them whilcfi they be yet but tcnder,as G414!" addftlh

alts‘! Salamanca and other places of Caflilegfor they haue a certain acrirnonie and acidity which 6 ° gfatefull to the tafie. A decoétion of the fruit of the third is good to foment relaxed and weak fizxparalyticke members,a,nd to cafe the parne of the gout,as the inhabitants ofGranado told cla. _ - it

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CI-lrii‘ts Thorne or Ram of Lybia is a very tough and hard’ {hrubby b‘ul’h,growing op fomrinies tothe height of a’ little tree,hauing very long and fharpe prickely branches but the Thornes"

Ema t at grow about the leaues are leffer, andlnot fo prickly as the former. The leaues are fmall, tedd. find almofi ro‘und,fomewhat {harp pointed,firfl: ofa darke green colour,and then fotnewhat

the félhd-The floures grow in clulters at the tops of the fialkspfa yellow colour gthephusks w_h_'crin‘ ' « mas 5. be contained are flat and broad,very like vnto {mall bucklers,as hard‘ as wood,wherr‘n are ‘mid three or foure thin and flat feeds likethe feed of Line or Flax.

-I-hi ‘V W H ‘ q} The Place‘. _ _. , A Lore [3 Thorne growerh in Lybia; it is betrerelleemecl of In the countrey of Cyrene than is their “on ree,as Plmy affirmeth. Of this herb Dip/Jilzzs Si plmiu: in fltbemus his r4. booke makgs man- t;tay‘“g=Th.at h.e did very often eat of the fame in Alexandr1a.t1_‘1at bcautrfull city,

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The leaues and buds or young {Hoots of the firft, are eaten as ralladss with Oilewincgersand B