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Show SECOND BOOKE, HISTORTE OF! PLAN Ts, OF THE OfFndian Swallow woort. Chap.320. Wifanck,fiae Vincetoxicum Indianum, Indian Swallow woott. Of the BombaSte or Cottons plant.” Goftipinm,fine Xylon, % The defiription. The Cottonbuth, F Here groweth in that part of Vitginia,or Norembega, where our Englith men dwelled (intending there to erecta Colo- rad %& Thedeftriptiow, ny)akindof4/élepias,or Swallow woort,which ' fections, andfometimes more with many tibs or nerues running through the ftow,fomwhar indéhted about t like to the leafe ofthe Vii Mallowe, butleffe t among which conse foortt ypon flender footel whereof are ofa yellc ple: after which apr the bigneffle of a Tehnife vh fame,like thofe ofRibwoort or Plantaine,{ettogither by couples atcertainediftances. Thefowers come foorth at the top ofthe ftalks , which asyet are not obferued, by reafon the man that broughtthe feeds and plants heereofdid notreard them: after which,there come in placetwo cods (feldome more) fharpe pointedlike thole of our Swallow woort , butgreater, ftuffedfull ofmoftpure filke , of a fhining white colour: among which filke appeereth a fivall long toong ( which is the feece ) refembling the toong ofa birde , or that ofthe herbe called Adders toong. The cods are not onely full o githera great quantity of fin people and nations in infidelitieand nakedness fo hath henotasyet giuen them ynderftanding to couer theirnakednes , nor matter wherewiti ouer with this filke, which daily they name if they were carefully manutee, dertheir fete, which were fufficient to apparell many kingdomes and cherifhed. % Theplace. ile Irgroweth, asbeforeis rehearfed, in the countries of Norembega, andnow called vee.J the H.fir Walter Ralezgh,who hath beftowed great furnmes of monie in the difcoueric cher are dwelling atthis prefent Englifhmen, if neither vatimely death by maurdering; or peluieins corrupt aire,bloodieflixes, or fome other mottall ficknes hath not deftroied them. % Thetime. y, oF moftofthe Te fpringeth vp,fowreth, and flourifheth both winter and fommer, as do man plants ofthat countric. & The names. <a 4 f (beingie pars The filke is vied of the people ofPomeioc, and other of the protiinces adioining vica Virginia ) to couer the fecret parts of maidensthat neuer tafted man, as in otherplace pi f white kinde ofmoffe Wifanck : we haue thought 4/éleptas Virgintara,or Viscctox?ae a 2, of Norembe§ the filke woort and proper names forit:in Englifh Virginia Swallow woort,or es,ut %& The matureandvertues. vertit® Wefinde nothing byreport or otherwaies of our owne knowledg: ¢, ofhis phificall i onely report ofthe abundance ofmoft pure filke,wherewith the whole plan tis pofielie f ) is threft to ¢ Cotton a ie among w hich is wrapped vp blacke feede of the bignetle of Peafon; in fhape'like the trettles or dung of a Conie. The fruit being come to i orripeneffe, the huske or cddopenethit felfe int filke, but euery nerue or finewe wherewith the leaues be ribbed , are likewife moft pure fikss and alfothepilling ofthe ftems,euenas Flaxcis torne from his ftalks. This confidered beholde theiuftice of God, that as he hath fhutvp thol He Cotton buth is a lowe andbafe siant hauing fmall ftalkes of a’cubite I hioh. andd 27 ometimes auttle higher ; dividedfromthe owett part to the rop intofundiefinall bra iches whereuponare fet confufedly OF few broad |eaues, cut for the mof the Savages call Wi/enck : there rifeth vp froma fingle crooked roote one vprightftalkea foote high flender,and ofa greenifh colour:whereupon dogrowefaire broade leaties fharpe pointed, todo the fame;notwithftanding the earth is couered ©hap bap..321 321. fower partes or diuifions, and cafteth foorth woolland{eede vpon the ground; if it bet thered in-hisitinié and feafon. The rooteis {mall andfibgle,with fewthreds annexedthereto.andof . awoodie fubltance asis all the reft ofthe plane, % Theplace. s hetoneth in Indian Arabi tilaMelitaSicilia Mi a ia, Aegypn,& in cercaine lands ofthe Mediterranean fea.as Cys iboinSyrie 8 in other prouinces of the continent adiacent. Irgroweth “s 1 Celetleloreeme stcn the FaGorof a worthipfull merchantin London, leercominirenteid fend ynto his faid Matter divers pommds weight ofthe fee eating myfle hee at the impreffion hereof: therfitecefie weé leate to the , ebteitcame yeeres paft did fowe ofthe feedes, whichdid grow veryfrank] "ae perfection , by reafonofthe colde froftes that ottertookeit in thesine of sehte s me fowen enasco the plowed wichin es wr { eldsin - gree the {pring s of the yeere,and reaped or cut downe in “iedin 1 Uch fore ned ; as wed groundmutt be tilled and {owen new againe the next yeere, c . Men | es oUt ° when it hath perfeete, the tillage forcore and Praine: foritis a plancof one yeere,andpeed his fruit,as many other plants do, tical in Greeke tuhev and * The mimes. Wisin ax,and Copapy. ANd yeovtmor: in Latine Xylem, and Go(ipiwm atterthe Gtecke: rh Bllhtand Fisnch, ec in Italian Bombagia vin Spanith Algodon :in high Dutch Sa s tus hath made a otton,Bombatte, or Bomtibace, Ber Atteein ylis whichds Hiereofinhis fourth booke g.chapter, but without a name; Range Sand that growerh j eatethwooll: neither isit‘any maruellif Hetooke an vakn ona De better ling countriesfaroff, fora tree; {cing alfo in this age, in which very Sins, SSaswe hare faid 15 wenthan intimes aft, the Cotgon or wooll heereof is called a hottob @int wall; chat ts,wooll ofa tree : Whereasimtenth it is rat €numbred among herbes,) Bbb f of Aee THE |
