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Show Se ee eaeeee ors teeeeects oath reetee ie Ae Sm 276 THE SECOND BOOKE‘OF THE HISTFORIE*‘ % The vertues. A InSpaineand thofe hot regions they vie to eate the apples preparedand boiled with pepper and oile:burthey yeelde very litcle nourifhment to the bodie,and thefame naught andcotmupr, B Likewifethey doeate the apples withoile, vineger and pepper mixedtogitherforfauce tothe meate,euen aswe in thefe cold countries do muftarde. Ofthe Athiopian apple. Apples of AEthiopia. % The defcription. <= liberalitie did beftowe them vpon me,as alfo manyother rare and {trangefeeds He apple of AEthiopia hathlargeleans of awhitifh greene colour, deepely inden ted about the edges, euento the mil ribbe;the which middle ribbeis armed withatew fharpeprickles, The flowers be white, confitng PD PLANTS, Theherbeitfelfeis ofa ftrong fauour , and doch ftuffe the heade, and caufeth drow! roote is {mall and threddie. 2 Thete is another kinde heereofaltogither greater then the former, w oftheright Honorable the Lord Edward Zouch,whichhebrought from Conftantinop] (Chap.56. Mala AEthiopica. OF apples. The flowers come foorth of long toothed cups great, , of the f the owers ofthe great Withwinde that rampeth in hedges, but altogither gre themoutth, fharpe cornered at the brims with certaine white hiues or thred ftrong ponticke fauor, offendi 1g the head when it is {melled vnto : in the place methyp round finite full of fhore and blunt prickles, of the bignes of a greene atthebiggelt,in which are the feeds of the bignes of tares, or of mandrakes offixe {mall leaues, witha certaineyellowe po tellinthemiddle. The fruite is rounde, andbur ched with yneuenlobes or bankes lefferthentie golden apple, ofcolour red,and ofafirme andl lide fubftaunce , whereinare conteined fimallt feedes.The roote is {mall and threddie. %& The place. This planthath been brought vnto vs fromon that part of Spainwhichis called Andalutia, am fromother parts of the fame counntrey allo and is that Thorn applethat I haue difperfed through this lande,whereofat this prefent [haue great vfe in Chirurgeri¢,as wellin burnings andfealdings,as alfoin virulent and maligne vlcers,apoftemes,andfuch like, The whichplant hatha verygreat {talkein fertill ground, bigger then.amans arme, fmooth >eeneofcolour,whichalittlé aboue the grounddeuideth it {elf into fundrie boughs or armes inmanetofan hedge tree; whereuponare placed. manygreat leaues cut and indented deepely aboutthe edges,with many yneuenfharpe cotners: among. thefe leaues come white roundflow ets made of one peece in manner ofabell, thutting ic felfe vp clofe rowarde night as.doe the lowers ofthe great Bindeweede whereuntoit is verylikejofa{weete {mell,but fo ftrong thar it offendeththe fences. The fiuite followeth rounde fometimes’ or ofthe fathion of anegge, fet about oneuery part with moft fharpe prickles ; wherein is conteined very much feede, ofthe big- nefleoftares andofthe fame fathion, The roote’is thicke , made of great and {mall ftrings, The wholeplantis fowen, beareth his fruite, and perifheth the fame yeere. I Stramonium Peregrinum. The apple ofPeru, % 2 Stramoninrn [pinofum, Thornie apples ofPeru. into Fraunce and Flaunders : but to what pete tion it hath come ynto in thofe parts Lamign raunt. But mine perifhed at the firft approcie winter, But his firft originall was fronAEthb. pia whereofit tooke his name, % Thetime. This plant muftbe fowenas muske’ Mel and at the fame time; they flowerin Iuly,, anats fruite is ripe in Seprember. se The names. ‘ In Enelith wee haue thought good roca bet reafon the ca: for iopt the AEthiopian apple,e AEth SS offont Atal alledged:in Latine : ; SS hall ebut the apple ofLoue Mettinusherch with aedefcriptioo hathbeen thought tobe Afalinat The temperature agreeth with _ Thefeapples arenot vfedin tice vnto tich menstable %& The nature. the apple ofLoue, % The vertues. sc Phificke thatI can reade of , onely theyare vfed fora fauceane of s to be eaten 2 being firft boiled in the brothoffat fefh with pepp™™ falt,and have aleffehurtfull iuic e then either madde apples or goldenapples. a ee eee oe Of Thorne apples. Chap.57. I T He {talks ofthorne Apples de ie cere aninchthicke vptightand ft peau: aboue a cubite and a halfe high, fel dom none + fhe me; whtaight,hauing very fewe braunches , fomennes rele Ptight ftem ut one vpricht thing indented about the edge €teupon do growe leaues fmooth and even," aul s,lo nger and broaderthen the leaues ofNightfhade, of!apf, g % The |