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Show Taipt. 5, Theatrum Botanicum. Gwap.63. The Names. fetue Moh: writers call thefe Cannabes fpurie,and /ylueftressyeras I fayd before, Bauhinus doth callthem,Urtice aculeate. The firlt is called, Cannabis fylveftris, by Tragus and Lugdunenfis, and Spuria altera by Lobel, by Tabera [yloeftris[pumontanus Cannabina alba, and by Bauhinus Vreica aculeata folysferratis, the fecond is the Cannabis ria tertia of Lobel, Aly[Jum arvenfe album of Tabermontanus,Urtica aculeatafolijs fervatis altera of Baxbinus, who thinketh ic may bealfo the Siderits Cordi, whereof Thalivs maketh mention in Harcynia fylva, Thethird is called by Lobel, Cannabis (puria facie Vrtice, by Bauhinus Frtica aculeata folijs non ferratis, andis the Sideritis alrera Matthioli,as Lugdunenfs expreffethit. The Fertues. Thereis litcleafe made of thefe herbes, eyther inwardly or outwardly, yet they arethought to bee nearethe temperature and qualities of the former Hempe: Lobel faith they are ufed as an aflured remedy againft nodes and wennes, and other hard tamonrsin the flefh, when otherthings havefailedand would dono good. 330. and 331, ashe is fet downe in Ioannes de Laet his defcription of America, or the Weft Indies; in pag. who faith itis afhrabbe, producing many round fmooth wooddy flemmes fromthe roote, about fix palmes or fpang high, about the bigneffe of ones little finger, of an afh colour, with leaves thereon like unto Cicers, having {mall whitifh red flowers, and afterwards many long Cods growing together, and hanging downe- wards like unto the wormescalled A/carides which we call Arfewormes,yet fomewhat thicke and full of blacké feede (de Laet addeth in a Parenthefis, Some fay, the {eede is like unto Feaugreck, flatat beth ends as if it had thar the water may draw outthe tincture, which they.poure out intoanother veffell that hath an hole therein Woade, are > F this herbe there isaccounted two forts, the one manured, the other growing wilde ; yet they ; ® both fo like the one unto the other, thatas itisthought the manuring onely caufeth the difference a third fort J have added to them for the colonts fake though much difproportioned in forme, 1. Glaftumfativum, -Manured Woade. be Woade that is fowenin fields fornfe, hath divers large, long and fomewhatbroad leaves, like greene colour ; from among which into thofe of Ribwort Plantaine,but larger thicker,and ofa darker blewifh leaves fet thereon, but arifeth upa {trong ftalke three or foure foote high,and fometimes more, withdivers {ach ends whereofgrowfmall yellow flowers, fmaller up tothetop, where it fpreadeth into divers branches, at the they are ripe, and pendulous or in whofe places come long flattifh huskes, or cods liketongues, blacke when will givea hanging downewards,whereinlye the feede, which ifitbe alittle chawed or broken with moyfture, lon growing downewards, blew wico colour : the roore is whireand e, Woad e Wild e. ucftr umfyl a0 Glaft Fecadratt sides This wilde Woade differethlittle from the tame or manured, but that it is fmaller, the ftalke flenderer, the huske or cods {maller and narrower. leaves leffer,and the or Indian Woade, as Nil five Anil, Glaftum Indicum. to be as indultrions therein as they havebeene with the former Woade; feeing no doubt bur it would bee were profitable, Camerarivs and Clufivs have both had.the feede of a plant fent them under the name of Wid, or Anil, as they fay, but having growne with them they have judgedit rather tobe another plant, then that wHereof ie bore the name; for Clfus faith, that his plant was like unto a {mall Colutea, which he afterwatds.as hee faith found to be Adpinus his Egyptian Se(ban(and {ure be ghefled fomewhatneare it,for ifit be not the fame itis very like ir, as you fhall heare by and by) and Camerarins faith his plant had leaves like unto Barba Jobis frarex, but larger; which compatifon may hold a fit correfpondence lkewife; yet Ln/cot faith the true hathleaves like Rofemarie. But I fhall here give you the, defcription ofthe plant by two feverall men;the one is Francis Ximenes beene cut uf,) For the mannerof making whereofhee faith; They caft the leaves into a braffe veflell.pouring thereon fcalding hot water,or rather lukewarme(yet fomeallow ofcold water as beft) ftirring them very well LXIII. Latisfive Glaftum, Indico Although Wif or Jadico be notin forme like Woade, yet for the rich blew colour fake I thinke good to make 3. GC affum fatrvum. Manured Woade, _ Cuar.63, mentionof it here with it, not onely to fhew you whatit is,and how made,but ro incite fome of otr nation, td The Time, Theyflower for the moft part in I#/y, Cuar. The Theater of Plants, 3» Nilfive Auil,GloffumIndicum, Indico ox J#dian Woade, fomewhathigh, whereout the cleare water may paffe, the thicke coloured {ubftance remaining behinde, which afterwards they ftraine chrongha cloth or bag, fetting the thicke {ubltance inthe Sunne, and make it inte cakes which is then dryed and hardened in pans atthe fire; Thusfarrede Laer. The other defcription is by M™. #77i/liam Finch a London Merchant, asitis fet downe by M'. Parchas, inhis fourth Booke of Pilgrims, the 4. Chap. pag.429.It isa fhrubfaith he, not above a yard high,and as bigge as a mans thombe at the biggeft ; the branches are wooddy like unto Broome, haying many leaves fet together on a fhort footeltalke, in forme like Cives (mifprinted for Cicers) or Ciche peafe, ot like thofe of Sena, but fhorterand broader : the flower (faith he) is untoan Hearts eafe; the feedeis inclofed in a {mall round cod about an inch long refembling Fenegreck. like yet feede, but mote blunt at both ends (fuch.very feedes for colour alfo we have often had fent for Indito feedé, neverany {prang withus but once, and that but one plant, and over haflily plucked up before it had any forme tobedifcerned, yet the {mall threddy roote was ofa pale blew colour, which I doe keepe by me to fhew sthe {eede alfo while it is freth being fteeped in water gave a blewifh colour.) _Thefe defcriptions fo like in moft things and fo nearely alfo refembling Alpinus his Se(¢an, but thatit hath a yellow flower,perfwadeth me that Se/= bax being undoubtedly a kind of Glanx Leguminofa, & fo may Indico be al{o but differing inthe Dye. The mannek ofmaking as Mt Finch faith is thus(being varionfly defcribed by others. ) They gather the leaves (when they have cat the branches, in Avgu/ and Septemsber after the raines,the {eede being ripe in November) and caft theminto a long Cefterne powring water thereon, and prefle them downe with ftones that they maybe overcovered, fo.abij- ding for certaine dayes, that the fubltance of the herbe may be drawne ont into the water, which they let: forth into another round Cefterne, in the minft whereofis another {mall Cefterne, or Center (the meaning whereof Y doe not underftand) andlabourit with great {taves, like batcer or white Starch, fcumming of the clearé water afteritis fetled ; then labourit afrefh, and draw off the cleare water againe being fetled, doing thus fo often untill nothing but a thicke fab{tance remaine, which they dry in the Sunne being {preadupon cloth, and afterit isa little hardned, they makeit into {mall balls with their hands, laying them to dry on theand, for any other thing would drinke up the colour, as alfoifit take raine in the drying it will lofe his colour and gloffe. After it is {owenit endureth three yeares : that Axdico of the firlt yeare while the plantis tender, is weighty and reddifhy called Wotee : that of the fecondyeareis tich, being very light and of a perfect violet colonr {wimming on the wrater,andis called Cyeree: that of the third yeare whenthe plantis declining (and peradventure but fabulous traditions ) is a weighty blackifh Ni/the worlt of the three, and called Catte/d, The beft is made faith hee, about Biazy necre 20. miles beyond Fesiporein the Mogols country inthe Baft Indies. And Xsmenes aforefaid as call the de Laet hath it, faith, the Indians of the Welt call the Plant Xihuiquilitl pitzahuac and the Adexicans tinétare made thereof cMohuitli and Tlecobuith, but the other Barbarians Tlacchoylinubsitl, and therewith cobut of Weft, the of lour their haire blacke. I have not heard that good Indico ig one of the Merchandifes exhibite the Eat Indies onely, De Laet having given the figure ofa branch’ of Indico, I dochere likew:fe the fame. The Place, fower The wilde kinde groweth in fundry untilled places and fieldsin Gerany,asit is fayd,but the manuredis where as Matthiolys faith, as well in Germany, France,and Spaineas in Tealy alfo,in Umbria neare unto Nocera, there is atowne called Gado,of the. W oade that grew there abundantly; and in the Tlands of Terceras belongof ing to Spaine : Some have fowenit in our owne land,, but they have found icto be the caufé of the deftruction their Bees; for it hath beene obferved,.thac they hays dyedas ir were ofa Flix that have talted thereof: iris fayd that in foie places they fow their Woade upon the fame ground, thar afterwards they fowedtheir Corne, up wich the Plough which crop of Woade is three timescutina yeare, and that thefe rootes that are not turned Will beare feede among the Corne. The Plant whereofthe Ni/or Indigo is made, groweth in divers places of the Eaft Indies,bur efpeciallyin Guzsrate,and the belt in and about Biante in the cMogols countrey. cm iHyi The Time. Woade fowreth in June, but the feede is late ripe. The Names. It is called in Greeke l'a¢s, and I/atis in Latine, Glaftum allo and Guadum of fome, after the Italian word Guado,whereby theycall Woade. .Cefar inhis firlt booke, de Bello Gallico, maketh mention of Glaftum, wherewiththe ancient Brittaines did colour themfelves to feeme the more terrible to their enemies inbactaile as it is thought ; or that they did thenas the Savages of the Welt Indies doe nowdelight in fucha colour, to paint their naked skinnes therewith. Pliny alfo {peaketh of the Brittaines ufing of G/a/tum in his 22. Booke and firft Chap. lnit divers doe diverfly imagine from whence the word Glaftam fhould be.detived ; fome have imagined, thar méntion F ff in |