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Show THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE Of Spurge. ————————— se The defcription, browne TeinusPalma Chrifti,or Kik,hath a great round hollowftalke flue’ cubits high, ofa andlarge,partedinto colour,died witha blewifh purple vpongreene, The leaues are great fandrie feGtions or diuifions, fathionedlike the leaues of a Figge tree, bur greater, fhredot cluttering rogither wideopen like the hand ofamans and hath towardthe top a bunchofflowers, awaywithoutbea wither & colour, yellow pale ofa are loweft he whereoft like abunchof grapes, huskes, whichconring any fruit sand the vppermoftare reddifh, bringing foorth three cornered haunteth taine feede as big as akidney beane , ofthe colourand fhape of a certaine vermine which cattell,called a Tike. > ThisPalma Chrifti of America groweth yp to the height and bignes ofa {mall treesorhedge the bignes ofa great fhrub, ofa wooddie fubftance, whofefruitis exprefled bythe figure, being of beane,fomewhatlong,ofablackith colour,toughand {ealic, OF PLANTS. (hap.132. % Thekinds me Herebe divers forts of Spurges according to Dioftoré des ,Plinie and Apuleius ,whereoffo all which fhall areofthe woode,fomeofthe fea, fome of the garden, and others o the fielde bedefctibedin this generall Chapter, efpecially bicaufe they are not all ofthem fed in Phificke, Thereforeto deuide them feuerally,it were but to tell one tale oftentimes ouer. 2. Tithymglus Heliaftopin. 1 Tithymalusparaline, Sea Spurge. Sunne Spurge, ; % Theplace. Ricings ox Palma Chrifti,groweth in my garden,and many other gardens likewife, %& Thetane. Ricinus orKikmuftbefowenin Aprill,and the feedeis ripe in the end of Auguft. & The memesndcaue thereof. the fourth chapter andfixtverfe of the prophecieof Jona, madein is Ricinuswhereofmention was called ofthe Talmudifts, >> K#k,for in the Talmud we reade thus,>> jox2 x Velo befchemenkik: thatis in Englith,And not with the oile of Kiks whichole is called inthe Arabian toong Alkerns queftion, as Kabbi Samuel the fonne of Hophni teftifieth, Moreouer, a certaine Rabbine moouetha nothing faying, whatisKik? Hereunto Rech Lachifh maketh anfwer in Ghemara, faying , Kikis ancient whichthe Kix, thatname by itappeereth true, thisis that And Kikaijon. his Jonas but elfe ofthe Hebrewword Greeke phificions, andthe Aegyptians vfeds which Grecke word commeth vnwittingly,called this planebyhis Krk. Hereby it appecreth, that the old writers long ago,though knewit by the name Cucurbita, which euidently true and proper name. Butthe olde Latine writers where is manifefted byan hiftorie, which Saint Augustine recordethinhis Epiftle to Saint Jerome, {mall amatter caufeda in effe& he writeth thus ; Thatname Kékayon is of {mall moment, yerfo greattumultin Africa. Forona time a certaine Bifhop hauing occafion to intreat ofthis whichis or fermon, which he madein mentioned inthe fourth chapter of Jozas his prophecie (in a collation his cathedralchurch orplace of affemblie) faid, that this plant wascalled Cucurbita,a Gourde,bi ) itis called Heders caufe it increafed vnto fogreat.a quantitie in fo fhort afpace, or elfe (faith he Vponthenoueltie and vntruthof this his doctrine, the people were greatly offended, and theteot fuddenly arofea great tumult and hurlyburly; fo thatthe Bifhop was inforced to goto theofewes, he had receiued them to aske their iudgementas touchingthename ofthis plant. And when his error,and was confeffed openrecantation,and his made he : the tte name, which was K/kagon iuftly acculed for a falfifier of holy{cripture, % The nature. The feede of Palma Chriftiorrather Kik,is hor anddriein the third degree. Neo % The vertues. i Cs A Ricinushis {eede taken inwardly, openeth the bellies and caufeth vomit, drawing flimie fem { therewith * places poffefied and cholerfromthe Slik C 1. fot thecal B Thebroth of the meate fupped vp, whereinthe feedehath been fodden,: is good jae Re the! en, : cuit adie one called Sciatica, it preuaileth alfo againft andthe gowte, and againft he paine in the hips ‘ dropfic. and dife C Cicinum Fis: in {hopsaib ae feede, is called Olewm Theoilethat ismade or drawendrifromthe aiitouy and 4 “i he and rub alii faid before,andis5 good to annoint wasayes drieth,asShea and Cherua :itheateth Oleumde hardnes and {curuinefle gottenby itch. D_ This oile,as Rabbi Danid Chiemchi writeth is good againftextreme coldnes ofthe bodit. % The defcription. i " Hefirttkindeot Sea S$ purge rifeth foorth ofthe fands, or baich ofthe fea, with fiindryredi ith ftems or ftalkes ge 1 growing vpon one fingle roote , of a wooddie fubftaunce: and the t steyellowi with {nall, fj fat, and.n aston Ga like ynto the leaues ofFlas and growe ithbefer Spurge a9 flow Rss hh te Out ittle difhes or faucers like the common kinde of ithymales. other’ te fecondet; me triangléd g the feedes,asin ; a s erat ihe } cekinde y= ot Solifequins 3 and in Englith,accor ateSune Spurge (called Helio/copine, dfooreh: Tithyn: “turnine wi the fine) fi a high : the i oftimene Tithymale,of turning wich hath Raids findrie like vnto y : sp fo diane el lan: Mitte platters. Ues are elike Purflane , but not great: the flowers yellow: litdekinde hath ie fat,and lender braunchestrailing vpoit t € Knecholme,or the great Myrtle tree.The feede and flowers are like vat fourth is ; ; thy . like Behe ot vPMetwife alike ae laft beforementioned , butit is altogither leffer, and groweth more vp Tithymale |