¶ The Description.
THis rare and pleasant Plant, called tree Night∣shade, is taken of some to be a kinde of Ginnie pepper, but not rightly; of others for a kinde of Nightshade, whose iudgement and censure I glad∣ly admit; for that it doth more fitly answer it both in the forme and nature. It groweth vp like vnto a small shrubbe or wooddy hedge bush, two or three cubits high, couered with a greenish barke set with many small twiggie branches, and garnished with many long leaues very greene, like vnto those of the Peach tree. The floures are white, with a certaine yellow pricke or pointell in the middle, like vnto the floures of garden Nightshade. After which succeede small round berries verie red of co∣lour, and of the same substance with Winter Cherries, wherein are contained little flat yellow seeds. The root is compact of many small 〈◊〉〈◊〉 yellow strings.