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Of Wood-Binde, or Hony-Suckle

The Description.

WOod-binde or Hony-suckle climeth up aloft, having long slender wooddy stalkes, parted into divers branches: about which stand by certaine distances smooth leaves, set together by couples one right against another; of a light greene colour above, underneath of a whitish greene. The floures shew themselves in the tops of the branches, many in number, long, white, sweet of smell, hollow within; in one part standing more out, with certaine threddes growing out of the middle. The fruit is like little bunches of grapes, red when they be ripe, wherein is contained small hard seed. The root is wooddy, and not without strings.

The Place.

The Woodbinde groweth in woods and hedges, and upon shrubs and bushes, oftentimes winding it selfe so straight and hard about, that it leaveth his print upon those things so wrapped.

The double Honisuckle groweth now in my Garden, and many others likewise in great plenty, although not long since, very rare and hard to be found, except in the garden of some diligent Herbarists.

The Time.

The leaves come forth betimes in the spring: the floures bud forth in May and June: the fruit is ripe in Autumne.

The Vertues.

The floures steeped in oile, and set in the Sun, are good to annoint the body that is benummed, and growne very cold.