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Show 7628 Gna R97 teniat aintenal f beatrum Botanicunt, Taxes17, . Tbe Theater ofPlants. CuarsBg.361g 89. Cuap, LXXXIX, Cuarp, DXXXVI T 4 Planta pinnata arandiaacea fpinofa, D) Carduus Pitabaya\ Americanorum. The blood red ball Thiftle; His Thilly frnicisdefcribed by Ovieduscrowing in the Ifland of Hifpaniols which is rourtd, arid as bigge asionesfilt,, and {omewhat Fa ere Si length thereof and at the outer ends of the waved welc fmall ftartes of fharpe pricks or thornes : more hereof cannot be faid for that more was notbrought, but that thereby you may beholdthe admirable workes of God in plantsas wellasin all his other : i creatures. = 4s Giaexh Up ¥ TA ; 5 < BIA them their urine. will’looke.whitifh, the fruite hath EE neither Ieafe not. branch, but rifechup inthe middle of many great foure {quare armes. of fix foot longa peece channeld in themiddle,and both there and at the edges fet full ofmoft fharpe but {mall prickes,three at a place Ay AG Al him Qos mt Ciahuie ESSA 5 together at certaine diftances one from/another » the i aaa plant and -fruit is of,a pale greene ath co- Our Flanta pinnata(pinofa & of America.andea bramble planta The ftarre poe <¢ pantRubifaciefemsico’a buth-like ftalke of <merica, ath Hereuntois adjoyned anothér thorny plant brought "oe Es ; a y i fs ee of pithofcightor ten cubits in length ES EN having a threefold waved skinny wele of a fingers breadth fer thereonall the ASST WAY “3 \ AS OY ARON is thick but may eafily be cur or pared, b.under whichthe pulpe or meateis like Ss upto a Figge with graines or kernells. among ic, as it hath,but of a pleafanedeepe crimfon colour,which coloureth their fingers. like. Mulberries that eate them, and after two or three honres.that they have eaten $4 The winged thorny Reede; FEOEUGG His Reedelike thorny plant came likewife w; i i he Welt W ies Indies a Ss which waslikea (tafte of a Rede full with the two laft recited plants from ché SN Cardans Pitah:ya Americanorum, H long; havinga fhew of, {cales on the RN oucide s the barke or rinde whereof i fromthefe parts, which feemed either the body or the branch ofa blacke berry like tree, being a folid firme heavy wood, armed very thicke with great Iong and ftronge thornes at certaine tubers ot Knots, the barke being thicke and blackifh, ee Obferve I pray you that the former of chefe two de{criptions belongeth to the Cereus fpino/is and that de- {cription to be fet in the placeof it, Cuar. LXXXVIII, Cereus[pinofus Americanw, The Torch Thiltle of America. eam His fmall plant feemeth fomewhatlike the laft, but that ic rifeth up with divers Ralkes19.,0r20/ cubits high, with forme ontward ribbes all the length of chem,’ andfet ar feve- Of rali {paces with {mall (hort thornes é , : _Cereiafpinofus Amerivanu, The Torch hillofamericas 22) ftanding like fmall ftarres, the forme of themverylike finro the. Melon Thi- CMLLLLLLL Si 7 Dc Alaest aBSI of ones wrilt ofagriftly {ubftance,and of a bitter gum. mytaltlike Alocs, ete = withoutedfte; the ftalkes are wooddyof the bigneffe UjiZA intialae sectsb Isint CZ me pasceabaeAy SG we i Se following ofa bright crimfon colour likeaFigge, bus SSSRRRcSca)Ie. co file, thefe ftalkes have fome fhort branches, and at the toppes flowerslike the purple FoxBlove,and fruice Cwar, XC, Canne Indice portentofé longitudinis, Indian Reéde {taves: WAN the Welterne fide of Sumatra andi other places alfo of thofe Indies grew Canes (for wee Kj know not how elfe to terme tliem) or Reedescalled by them Rettan of an incredible length, for j| rifing from the ground; they will motint up to the toppe of the highelt tree in growth there next unto them, and defcending to_the ground againe, ic will runne thereon on a great G3] way, and fometimies divide it. felfe co feverall wayes, and afterwards coile it felfe as a : Cableis laid on fhipbordor elfe where, to the length of thirtic fathome by computation, and then runne againe over a tree fometimes or elfe coile it felfe againe as formerly, fo that neither beginning or end thereofis found : ic hath not beene obferved that it hath any leaves onit, but are very plyant and bending as one will while theyare frefh and greene,and would ferve in ftead ofropes : but whenthey are oldand dry, they will ferve in {tead of walking {taves,as they are much ufed with many of as now a dayes or to any other fich purpofe they areno harderor bigger then an ordinary cudgell,yetmayone {trike fire from them by ftriking one a= gain(t another, which nevertheleffe are porous and hollow as it were inthe middle, fo that one may blow winde through them atnever fo great a lengrh,and at a reafonable {taffes length almoft fo {trongly,to blow out a candle fet at the further end,at the tealt fenfibly to be felts yet no appearance of holes therein, I take it tobe the fame thatis called Jencus Indicus porofin in Clapius his Cure pofteriores but why Iuncws | fee no reafon. |