❀ The Names.
It is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Vitis syluestris, that is to say, the Wild Vine, yet this is not that kind of wild Vine, the which men cal Labrus∣ca, for that resembleth altogither the garden and manured Vine, but this (as is aforesayde) is a plant or herbe of the kindes of Bryonie, the which is also cal∣led in Greeke Ampelos, that is to say, a vine, bycause that it groweth high, win∣ding it self about trees & hedges like the vine. And of this I haue thought good to geue warning, lest any hereafter hap∣pen to fal into errour, with Auicen, Se∣rapion, & other of ye Arabian Phisitions, thinking that Labrusca and Vitis sylue∣stris, shoulde be any other then one selfe plante. Columel calleth this plante Ta∣mus. by folowing, of whom Plinie cal∣led the fruite Vua Taminea, & this plant is called in some places Salicastrum. It is called in Shoppes of some Apotheca∣ries Sigillum beatae Marię, that is to say, the Seale or Signet of our Ladye: in Italian Tamato: it may be called in Frenche Couleuree sauuage: in Douche Wilde Bryonie, bycause it is a kinde of Bryonie, as a difference from the right wilde Vine.
Some take this herbe for Cyclaminus altera, but their opinion may be easily reproued, and founde false, bycause this herbe hath a very great roote, and as Dioscorides writeth, Cyclaminus altera hath an vnprofitable and vaine roote. that is to say, very small and of no substance.