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Show 768 THE SECOND BOOKE! OF THE % The names. The later Herbarifts do call it Angarée : in fhops Citrulus,and Cucums Citrulss : in Englith Ci. truls,Cucumber Citruls and Pome Citruls,and is knowse by. the naine of Semen Citralj or Citrull thenis thecommon fede, ButifCucumis Citrulws be fo called of the yellow colout of the Citron, Gucumber properly. Cucumis Crtrulus,which is knowne vntoall to be contrarie, % The temperature and vertues. A The meate or pulpe of Cucumer Citrull which is next vnto the barke is eaten rawe, but more commonly boiled: it yeeldeth to the body little nourifhmenti, andthe famecoldes it ingendreth a waterith bloud, mitigateth the extremitic of heate of the innet parts, and tenspereth the tharpenesandfervent heatofcholer:being rawe and heldein the mouth, ittakerh awaythe roughnes of the toongin agues,and quencheth thirft. B The feeds areoflike facultie with thofe of Cucumbers. Of the wilde CGitrull,called Colocynthis. (hap.329. I Colocynthis, 2. Colocynthsspyriformis, pre Pe Peare fafhioned Cologuintida, HISTORIE Du. fuitefopated ot pillc 1,2 1 dtied fot medici fedeandthe whole plant it felfe inall his parts. 2 Thefecondekinde of Co/oyuintzdahath | wherwith ittaketh hold of {uch things as ft fmuchiagged:: The flowers are {mall and ellow:the :the {orttounde,wherein the efpeciall difference confifteth, % The plate, Cologuintideis fowen and commeth to p } tortherlvand coldcoimtries, hrisfoweliin thie {pringandbr ins Ithath beene divers times del Meditettaneah fea fhore,or y thatlideof Barbaties:asialfo w yuit places adiacent sfrom whence ditiers Ghirij cuting fficke and hnitt men in the fhip,hat Ys Pians oi % The names, Kiscalledofche ignorant Ab ’ oguintidas it Gree fucolayathis do ofter vine Cucu Cohemnhitor Gologtimidalorcacarbsta-/yiue guintit, whereof fhall be {et foorth a Faglihitis called Coloquintida,or app! Os, % Thetem _Gologiintida asit is in his whole nature and in: erende of the fecond d : and ther hings that moft bitter things do theftogle ; rn: 2 MICHOOKEtS, as Galen faith, otmoteé force then Which operation of } and choles marueilons {pec andbloudicexcretnents. by Sothat therefore the Gam e teneafeate conftraine the cithetewith whereby the anelpeedily paffingthec hiteither Maftich themade ofit Troc! M,ofthefe , Mat <lbetier which haue no Toyl: itch binding o¢ gg % The defeription. ae ~) Oloquintida hath beentaken of many to beakindeofthe wilde Gourde, but i o itlieth along creeping onthe grounde as. do the Cucumbers and Melons , conn reftofall to the Muske Melons, which in thefe daies of {ome Herbariftsis ca vy Cucuiber,but with the greater errour: It bringeth forth vpon his long braunches fall tendrels like the Vine,andalfo very great broad leaues deepely cut or iagged: among foorth {mall flowers ofa pale yellowe colourthen; commeththefruite,roundeas4 eel witha. thinnérinde,of a yellowe colour whenitisripe , which:whenit is pilled or pF atl COP" white pulpe or fpungic {ub{tance appecrethfull of feedes, of an.ouerworne browne y, the guts be not ft cakes,withM g quali ngent things 3 violent medic “STAKES Work e tf . eoltixed with 1eiroperation with mc e: violence ander rf nem do eafilier worke and with le erpaine, asb ~BNOOKG of 4/;“nanzor,calleth LMiace , which are compounded of thGodt e fron nesses thatare; and ofathirde called gumme sy en itwere daube the entrailes and guts,, andestos defende ui of either of them, AC compofition which Rha/is in d Scafhony, Bs hrough his ip i8e there unto,dorh notwithftandins “uettorment lent,then moft of the mildeft ich ,-& other IXed yy ith them that are aftringent. "forithis ae Is verylik e that Galen inhis booke iY nedicines accord! > tothe pla- G “not futier Maftich and Bdellium tobe in th illeswhi Cothidy ch ar ; [ us d:. h Notw} Dtiithfan 1 thitanding his {choolemafter Qumtws le vnto the wasa “tCologuint; Oquintida ; onelyg od for i purgations, ‘ “ whichitis ep eats aremed rare, f. forthe difines or H q Midaisis not in Coc |