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i like leaues,but fomewhat narrower: the to

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h C H P; 2.7; V Of 3309: T/some, and the juice thereof called Lycium.

qr Tl»: Defiriptioni

Ox Theme is a rare plant in fhape not vnlike the Box tree,whereof it hath bin reck0“‘d

for a wilde kinde,hauing many great branches fet full of round and thick: leaue_S VF‘ like that of the common Box tree :amongit which grow forth mofl fhafP€_ Pm

as big as a pepper come : the juice whereof is fomwhat oi1y,and of a reddifh colour = W juice being fet on fire,doth burne with a maruellous cracking and fparkling :' the afhes I ofa reddirh colour : it hath many‘weo_ddy roots growingaflope,

1 Ljcium, [irue Pyxacmtim. :1: 2 Ly ciam Hijjmnimm. Box Thornel. Spanifh Box Thorne.

2 The OITYCT kiflde 0fPyxacan:£a or Lysium groweth like vnto the common Privenllauit‘-6‘

. .. f fld ' ' d'h'”‘ke5' mm is wughfind ofawooddy fubflancc. pso the en er iprrgs are furniihe wit prrc

_ . . '1]?/:ePl4ce.‘ e A They grow in Cappadocra and Lyciasand in many other countries:it profpers in rough Pl“ it hath likewifc bin found at Larlguedoe and Province in France.Be&/win: wriceth that he 0 in Palefiina. j . p ; _ ; so ‘ '

Mattbiolu: piétureth for Box Thotne a plant with Box leaues,with very many i-might taine thornes (landing among them :but the notable Herbarifl Azzguillara and others hol that it is not the right 5 with whom we alfo agree‘. ks

There is drawn out of the leaues and branches of Box Thorn,or as P/my ia:ith,0UF Om” bang and roots being throughly boiled,a juice named Lymmz. Y dagc;

eivfwide {site E133EEl!E leases and bzssshss £998 129 Pzraycdaand the irzfefiofi E?“ W“

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themes: the floures grow among the lCaues,which yeeld forth fmall black berries of a lgftgfgttg; rc

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1“ thfi decoélion thereoriaiter which the feces or wooddy Pcufiie rnufi be caii away, and that which xemaineth boiled againe till it become as thickc as hony. Pliny faith that the roots and branches are Very bitter, and for three daies together they mull; be boiled in a copper veilizll , and the wood

and flicks often taken out till the decoration be boiled to the thickneife ofhony.

The Time. They fioure in Fcbruarie and March_,and their fruit is ripe in September.

. an The N 41726:; M _ t It is named in Greeke wzuewsu, which a man may call in Latine Bzrxeajpina ; and in Engfi{h,bO7§C E Pme ; of fome, Aiies Box tree,and prickly Box :it is alfo named Ljfiféfm. OF the juice which-is L °_11€d out of it : the juice is properly called_.wm», and fémmeth 1’! L§t1f1€ C116 fame name Lycizzm r §1_S termed in Eng1ifh,Thorne Box. But it ieemeth to me that the original! name rbycizgm is fitter, (fmga firange thing,and knowne to very few_: the Apothccarief know It “0f,Who in Read thereof 0 vfe amiffg the’ juice o‘fr'ne fruit of \Noodbrnde,and that not without great error, as we haue ale

adywritten. :1: It is vnknown in our {hopsmeither is there any thing vied for it, it being wholly p

out ofvfe -. wherefore our Author might here very well haue (‘pared Dodomcm his words. 3 Diafcorides teacheth to make a «;.~.‘mr1«- 01' SUIDQC11 Which is gdod £9‘ ‘h°f§‘}}1“g_5 ‘hat Llwifim is,‘ and is vied when Lycium is not to be hladfifld it is 55 to be Put into 3“ mcdlcmes 1“ mad thercofi ff '1"/2e Temperature. _ _ _ p : Lyciumbgr thg jfficc of'Box Thorne is,as Galen teacheth, of a drying qualitie, and compounded .fd1llers kinds 0H“bfi3flCeS,one of thin parts digeiiing and hot,another earthy and cold, wherby ‘t enioyethhis binding faeulitie : it is hot in a _mean,and therefore it IS vied for feuerall purpofes; T p qr ‘I53 I/“crimes. j . A A '3 iycztqm clearcth the {ightjaith Dz'afcorider,it healeth the ihilruy Ffifliffid T0r€S 0? the eye‘ lids, the

l “C sand old fluxes or diiiillations of humors: it is a remedie for the f¥‘““i“:‘I 0f I113 fares: for V1"

ers in the gurns,and almonds of the throat,and againit the chaps or gallingsbf the lips and funda- . ‘mt.

fl‘ 7 i . .. - v 5- p h 3 - ‘ y 'j~ ‘ .,fM,g v- I d ,5, i . by [{i1C4".Cf5l'ipIlOn and titleberter fitted r.hisLyci;:m Hi an ‘Wm cikivearigfuré lift) Egg: I talicfluiingti ‘xlfirrlaglus-edit)? Ahth0~' £333‘ ‘Balm: in ‘IN flcxtchaprcr fem: mo“ )7

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. ’ Ffter the opinion of DiojEo'ria7a’ there bee three forts of‘ Iélmmnargone with long flat and foift

le ’ ‘ ire leaues and the third with round leaueS‘a“"hiCh are ffifmewhat blac-

, . a;r%:,0:11b:Zgrp; aifime rim them ambu; ;wo,the one wh1te,and the other black,bo;h

whkh do beare Thornes.But by ‘hf? 13b“ 3“d indumie of ‘he “F3” imd me ‘‘’'.‘‘e” thhre a‘e~.f°“T\d

undrll forts moe,all which and wet)’ one of them an’ Plan” Of‘? Woody _f"bP.‘a‘‘cev‘hau1“g “[0 ma‘? 3’ “flight twiggy and pliant branches fer with mofi; (hat? P““‘“”:°5 ‘h°’“C5'

{I T/IE Dcftripzion.

. H1533 3. {Hub gfowing in the hedgcsA,t_and_ bringing forth itraightbranclies and hard thornes like thofe of the Hawthorn, With 11513 103g leaues fomethzng fat and foftzand this hath that notable learned man Clafifu more diligently deicrroecl in thefe words 5‘ The Ram is 3 {hub at to make hedges of,with Ftraight branches parting it felfe into many twigs, Whitefind fa with {hffe and flrong thornes,hauing leaues which for the moi’: part grow by foures at ‘Lies 3; the mo: ofeuery Thorne, long, iomethrng fat, like to thofe ofthe Olru_e tree, fomewhacr . h1te,bm tende, and fu 11 ofjuice ;wh1ch in Autumne do fometimes falloffileauirig new growing» in their places ; the floutcs in Autumne are fomrhing long,whiti{h,diuided at the bums into flue tarts: in their places is left a feed in {hew as in Gelfcmim, notwithfltanding it was nener my chance M96 the fruit: the root is thl.CkC>and CHUCYHY P3“Cd- - d id-. - " I obferued another,fairh the fame Author,almoi‘t like to the torme_r;b“'5 1°W°r’.a“h “llded “to more branchcs,with lelfer leaues,more thick and falt of tai’te,anc‘-. winter alfo than t e former;

the floures are like thofe of the former in all things but their coloufrwhfch 1“ ‘ms are 'r"”P1€- 2 This hath more flexible {talks and b'ranches,and thefe alfo fat with thornes :Thc kfaues are

4 na“°“’sand not fo thicke and fleihv as thofe of the former,yet remai§§:1Wag'c5 Erica? like as thegif. i he floures are {mall and moflie,ol' a grecmih colot1r,g"°“’mg t ‘C e 3 out t 16 ranches’ 3” « r

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T . . t Y 3 e fucceedcd by a round fruit,yello'-:_vifh when it i? 1'iPe)a1}d {§?7f‘.a.1.‘.”:“g 01191? mihbbe an the;

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