¶ The Names.
It is vsually called in high-Dutch. Zeilant Zeidelbast, Lenszkraut, and Kellerhals: 〈◊〉〈◊〉
The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London
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- The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London
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- Gerard, John, 1545-1612.
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Apothecaries of our countrey name it Mezereon, but we had rather call it Chamelaea Germanica: in English, Dutch Mezereon, or it may be called Germane Oliue Spurge. We haue heard, that di∣uers Italians do name the fruit thereof Piper Montanum, Mountaine Pepper. Some say that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or Spurge Laurell is this plant, but there is another Laureola, of which we will hereafter treat: but by what name it is called of the old writers, and whether they knew it or no, it is hard to tell. It is thought to be Cneoron album Theophrasti, but by reason of his breuitie, we can affirme no certainty.
There is, saith he, two kindes of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the white and the blacke, the white hath a leafe, long, like in forme to Spurge Oliue: the black is ful of substance like Mirtle; the low one is more white, the same is with smell, and the blacke without smell. The root of both which groweth deepe, is great: the branches be many, thicke, wooddie, immediatly growing out of the earth, or little aboue the earth, tough: wherefore they vse these to binde with, as with Oziars. They bud and floure when the Autumne Equinoctiall is past, and a long time after. Thus much Theophrastus.
The Germane Spurge Oliue is not much vnlike to the Oliue tree in leafe: the floure is sweet of smell: the buds whereof, as we haue written, come forth after Autumne: the branches are wooddy and pliable: the root long, growing deepe: all which shew that it hath great likenesse and affinity with Cneoron, if it be not the very same.