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Show The Garden of pleafant Flemers. Crap CXVIL Tweenfive Iacce. The fuppofed Indian Iucca, T=: rare Indian plant hath a great thicketuberous roote(fjpreadihg in time in. to many tuberous heads) from the head whereof fhooteth forth Taanylong, hurd,and guttured leaues, very tharpe pointed , compaffing asit were onean. otherat the bottome,of a grayifh greene colour , which doenotfall away, butabide euer greene on theplant ; from the thiddle whereof fjpringeth forth (now and then, but not euery yeare) a ftrong roundftalke, dinided into diuers branches, whereon ftand diuers white, and fomewhatlarge flowers , hanging downe theirheads 3 confi. ftingof fix leaucs, with diuers veines, ofa weake reddithor bluth colour, {pread onthe backe ofthethree outer leaues , efpecially from the'middle of the leaues to thebor. tome, and notrifing to theedge of the leafe of any flower , which fall away without bearing any feede in our Countryyas farre as euer could beobferued either in the plant that Mafter Gerard kept a long time by him, or by Robinus at Paris his plant, which Mafter Gerard fentvato him, or yet by that plant, that Vefpafian Robin 'the fone of old Robin fent vnto Mafter Iohn de Franqueuille, and now abideth and flourithethin gay Garden. ThePlace. Ie was firft brought into England (as Mafter Gerard faith) fromthe Wet Indies,by a feruant of Mafter Thomias Edwards, an Apothecaryof Exeter, and impartedto him, who keptit vato his death : but perifhed with him that gotit from hiswidow, intending to fendit to his Country houfe, The Time. Te flowreth not vntillluly, and the flowersfall away fodainely , after they haue beene blownc opena while, The Names, Matter Gerard firftas Ithinke calledit Ivcce » fuppofing it to bee thetmue Taca of Thewet ; wherewith the Indians make bread, called Ca/fama : burthe trac /ueca is de{cribed to haue.a leafe dinided into feuen or nine parts,which thishath not : Yet nor knowing by what better nameto callit , letithold Rill his fichim pofition, vntill a ficter may be giuenit . The Vertues, Weehaue notheard ofany, that hath either heard, er experimetted the faculties hereof, nor yet whetherit hathread, good oreuill tafte; forbe ing rare, and poffeffed but by afew , they that haucit are lothto cutaty thereof, for feare offjpoiling and lofing the wholeroote d Some haue affirmed, thatinfome parts of Turki , e, where asthey faythis plant groweth , they makeakinde ofcloth from the threads are found mu ning through theleaues; but I finde thethreads are fo ftrong and hard, thé this cannot be thatplant the relators meaneis vfed in that manner. 1 Twa fixe ica, The Indian;lacca. > Arbon wits. Thestec objite. 3 Arbor Inde. ludas teed § Qtifg. Tree Tretoite, Osa 4 Labarnum. Beane Trefoils |