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Show = : Crap . 85. y7, ‘T beatram Botani Botanicum. cw ceciniadsiTaipe ad ane Crap, LXX XV. Anana fen Pina, The Welt Indian delitions Pines, a : xcellent and pleafant {weete finité in all the Welt Indies)is He Pines be ater Maesees ne tobe: har d,tough and narrow leaves, thickRay thefruite of ‘ai " bdthins cat in and dented about the edges,withftiffe reddifh points, var pricke- niot,from the middle whereof rifeth up : ees = eeel oealof : i acatance.are Fe me the toppe one head,of the bigneffe o : ke= the wilde fort es Bronter tine n be eae more yellowith,being throughripe, pepe Mclon,or Pome Citron,of cae atthe firft view, but more like toa Cone of the Pinetree, which we calla Pine wate em Baten . outfide hathno hardneffeat all therein, but may be pared and cut like unto a mellow Apple for the forme, yf ae fa{esell chiar they maybe perceived where they be afarre offof a farre more f eaten foae bance then it, tafting like as if Wine,Rofewater,and Sugar, weremixed together, e fant {weere tafte ai G Hiecdiy it may beencreafed: butas fomeothers fay, it hath whitifh teed likea as ving no feede ata See er; this frnitebeareth abuth of leaves at thetoppe, and fome {mall heads on final Melon, bat leffsr - : Pac being taken from ic and planted halfe way deepe in the pone eh ppeapote) oe eaexte yeare, which isthe onely mannerof propagating. In Bra/fill he att i ‘th ab. and beare mee next callI4jana, which islonger and pleafanter then any other, and of a at 5 u dryforts hereof, Hee Neper: Reine whiter within, andofa mawmith tafte, with the Infcioufueffe sa pon pareo A _ bite allo bat tafting like {weete Wine withalittle tartneffe. The poore is third they called 7 ees, eset. but within, perifheth withthe {talke after the fruite isripe. Ic was firft brought rom great with many flrings Deereitis naturall, intoboth Weftand Eaft Indies, being not naturall to either of them, ee eee andnow is growne plentifull: they of Brafil callic Nana, others Asana, onee: ee a Pin : from the likeneffe, and fo doe moft Countryes, following that hame, Oviedus in ee ee tae and Thevet in his fingularities his Hiftory caileth it on the Mulberry, wich long broadmaketh mentionofanother fruite very like hereunto leaveslike Angelica, inan Ifland of the Eaft India but Sowing apne which Feuite they call AZelewken, and tafteth as if Sugar and a little Nutmegge were mixed toedied 7V each Nati ves cate to quenchtheir thirft. The chiefeft time oftheir ripeneffe is inthe Lent, when gether, Sieene 3 a is Pinaas I faid, furpaffethall other fruites ofthe Weft Indies, for pleafantneffe and — ee ‘ os: aay Sate themabund antly, and thinke they cannot(afficiently befatisfied with them, PnoreLomi ils : : Anna feaPina, The Weft Indiandelitions Pines, \Anana fylveftr is, Wild Indian Pines, Tarise 19. Lhe Theater of Planes, Cwar.86, 4699 but che furfec of themis danger ous,€venasi t is afvall ofche beft fruits s it is not ufed Phyfical y hit learne, but chfaporis gratiam wholly {pent and eaten:the Phifitions there forbid it their ficke herto Tecan is fomewhar too hort and might patients, becairfe ic breed inflammations, Some admir able things if one of thefe fruits be cut through the middle witha knife and they joyne are reported thereof, One is thar d together againe, the peeces wil] joyne and {ticke fo faft together as if ic had not beene cut at all: another proper tie it witha Knifeand leave the knife Ricki g therein untill the next day, fo much ofthe hath, chat if one cut the fruir blade thereof as Rucke within the fruie will be found wholly confumedan d watted, or as it were ¢aten away : the knife alfo that did cut one of themif itbe not fodainly wiped buclet alone unwiped will feeme.asif it had beéne eaten There is another wild kinde of Pinas in with Adjitafortis, growing naturally both greater higher and more prickly or ‘Thifle ving a grea tufe of leavesatrhie botrome like haof their ftalkes or tems nextthe ground off bucleffer, and ofa pale grcene colour fet with feemi be Aloe leaves afar tharpeprickes, it is encteafed by ‘thengof-tofets, another ¢ from the maine ftem-grow fundry branch one nifing from es bearing at their ends, heads of foft tender ’ leaves tlofed round together, which are nothing butthe flowers,and are ofa yellowifhcolour fmelli heads rife fpikes not'unlike to thofe ofthe ng very fweetzour of rhefe Reede but thicker, clofer ferandfarre more the Cedar : from thebranches hang downe beautifull, finelling like thefinit called by the Portugal; Anana s bravas,thatis, wild Axis or Pinas which doe fomewhattefembl e the former or mangred kinde, of the bignef fe of a'Melo red colour very pleafantto behold whichis divided into partslikeunto Cipreffe nuts when n, of a beautifull they are dry, and fer with bunches or knobs, veryneare refemb ling a Cone or Pine Apple, ‘whichare nothing fo: 2004 although little pleafant,yet fomewhatharfh withall; where of few doc cate or take pleafare in them, and give aslittle good noarifhment when they are eaten, and is theref ore more P hifically ufed, ‘for-fix or eight ounces a morning falting with fome Sugar, of the juice taken'in is a moft prefent and certaine remed y againit theHeate or inflammation ofthe liver or backe,asalfo againft che Vicers of the Kidneyes, and foule purulentons arines and the excoriations of the yard ; all which difeafes this cureth upon titetimes taking , Cuar, LXXXVL Melo cavduis Americanys. The Melon Thiftle. y His admirable plant or fruite hath neithe r leafe nor falke, bue rifeth immediatly out of the ground, froma {mall whitith rough ftringy roote and many{mall fibres cherear,into che forme of a Maske Melon forthe bigneffe, but mide Cone Z fafhion, that is, broad and flat below, and * ‘finaller up to the toppe; having round a- bout ie foureteene ribbes. fet. with fharpe crook prickes ten os swelve together like a Marre in fix, ed fe ven or eight places of every ribbe and furrowed betweene,of a yellowith greene colour: from Out of the toppe whereof thrufteth forth fandry filkeli ke downe or Cotto ny threds,as the Artichokes and other Thiftl es doe,within which lyé when they are ripe fmall long flender pointed fheathesor codg; of a perfe colour,refembling the long codded Capfi ® crimfon cum or Ginny Pepper, wherein iscontained {mall round feed like the Amaranthus, fer with hard yellowith prickes at the head : the rinde hereofis-hard and thicke like tintoa Melon, which maybe pared away like it,und the palpe or meate lyeth whitein colour, fattyer which in fee~ ling of anunfavory (owertafte, Wwaterith aideooling , This plant groweth néate the Sea thores ig divers Ifland s ofthe Welt Indies 4s Saine MargersSai and others neare ato Prerte hiceo, One of pe Tohns, the fruits hath beene brought from theiice tows that Hath weighed feven pounds and twelve olinees. Wea Knowof no other ufe chis fruit is pat unto, butthat ih the Hot time Of the yeare theycate it to quench their thitl' and coole she heate oftheir ftomackes, Mado carduns Americanin, |