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Show { yf ‘ » 2 3 t allée leafe, but onely fromthe fruit downwards, whereas itis fomewhat thicker,and not fllire aie nai tl Cael but almoft he Catf-tailés which me triangular. , Thefioure is a loOSE ung refembling emp i Ht f growoa 9a.HaHaz: @ Thetime. ; t : el a cel ae j and lofethhis leaues in Winter, Ginger flourifheth in the h ot time of Sommer, the iba F ¢ Ee Ronn re ee Sets 5 ; By ren ine Zimziber and Gingiber : in Greeke, zof@esand ratites: In French, Gi. Ginger is called in Latin % 4 2 oe gembre. q The nature fels ; it is about the thickneffe ofan ordinarie Reed, fome inch andhalfe long, ofa greeni{} lowcolout, curioufly chequered, as if itwere wrought with aneedle with greeneand vello : eee } SUES A paper ine 5 “ie intermixt-f.’I haue notas yet feeneit beare his tuftin my garden, and haueSane readthat it is bart andbyproofe haue feeneit fo: yet for all that I beleeue Clufiws, whofaith hee hathfeene it beare q The vertues. + floure his susiein that placew lace where Beretit doth doth grow naturally, prow | a os ly, alchouch Kt a igh in in England E itis altogether al itis ether bars bar ren: The root is {weet in fmell,andbitter in rafte,andlike vnto the common Flagge,but fmaller; Gone head Eddvieth inthe Bu ORs third a degree. ‘A ; ae j { Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lise. Lis. 1, Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 62 : . and not fored. Ginger,as Diofcorides re osteth,is right good with meatein fauces,or otherwife in conditures: for it is ofan heatingand digefting qualitie ; it gently-loofeth the belly, and is profitable for the ftomacke, and effeétually oppofethit felfeagainft all darkneffe of the fight ; anfwering the quaBO > : G@deradart ded aa eh ' lities and effects of Pepper. It is to beconfidered, That canded, greene or condite Gingeris y Thetine Aromaticall Reed vl the AaRents : 3 Calaraus Aromaticus Antiquorum. hot and moift in qualitie, provoking Venerie : and beingdried, itheateth and driethin the thitd MAE degree. Cuar. 45. 4 Of eAromaticall Reeds. a Acorus verus officinis falso Calamus, cumjulo. The true 4corws withhis floure. Acorns verus finejulo. The true 4corus without the $3 Ithinkeitvery fitting inthis place to acquaint youwitha Plant, which by the conje: éture of the moft learned (andthat not without goodreafon) is indged tobe’ the true Calamus of the Ancients, Chifivs gites vs the hiftorie thereofin his Notes vpon Garcias ab Horto, b.t. 64,32. in thefe words: Whenas (faith he) this Hiftorie was to be the third time printed, I very Opportunely came to the knowledge of thé true Calamus Aromaticus ; the which the learned Bernard Pa/udanus the Frifian, returning from Syria and Aigypt,freely beftowedvpon me,together with the fruit Habhel, and many otherrare feeds, about the beginning of the yeate 1579. Nowwee haue caufedafigure tobe exadtly drawnebythefragments thereof(forthat it feemes fo exquifitly to accord with Diofcorides his defcription.) Inmyneopinionit is rather to be iudged an vmbellife. rous plant thanareedy ; for it hatha ftraight ftalke parted with many knots or ioynts, otherwife {mooth, hollowwithin, and inuefted on the infide with aflenderfilme like as a Reed,andit brea keth intofhiuersor{plinters, as Dio/corides hath written: it hath a {mell fufficiently ftrong., and thetafteis gratefull, yet bitter, and pertaking of fomeaftriGion : The leaues,as by remaines of them might appeare, {eeme bycouples at euery ioynt to engirt theftalke : the root at the top is fomewhat tuberous, andthen ends in fibres. Twentyfiue ycates after Paludanus gaue me this Ca: famus, the learned Anthony Coline the Apothecarie (wholately tranflated into French thefe Comries the fourth timefer forth, Asno 1593) fent mefrom Lyons pieces ofthe like Reed; cervithall, That he had madevfethereofin his Compofition ofTreacle. Nowthefe pies - they refembled thofe I hadfrom Paludanws, yet had.they a ‘more bitter tafte her didthey partake of anyaftriction; which peraduentute was to be attributed to the age ofoneofthe two. Thus much Clufius. + 3 qThe place. The true Calamus Avomaticus groweth in Arabia, and likewife in Sytia, efpecially in the mioogrounds betweene thefoot of Libanus tand another little hill, not the mountaine Antiliba- 1s, as fomehauc thought,ina fall valley neere toa lake,whofeplathes are dry in Sommer. Pliny + 22 | Baftard or falfe Calamus growes naturallyat the foot of a hill neere to Prufa a city of Bithynia, ofpereth execed ingwell in mygardén,but as yet it bearcth neither fo in Candia,as P/iny reporteth : in Galatialikewife,and in many @ The time. M Thedefiription. i i eee = ofa darke duncolour, full of joints and knees,eafie tobe plinters, hollow, and full of a certaine pith cobweb-wife, fome- _ tee oa What gummyin eating, and hangingin the teeth, and of a thar e bitter tafte. Itis of the thickneffe of thelittle finger, as Lobeliue affirmeth of fome which he fhad fee 3 Venices 2 Baftard Calamus hath flaggyleaues like ynto the Water floure de-luce einen but natrower,three foot long ; ofa frefh greene colour, and aromaticke {mell, which then ne >a lone Mme, although they be dried. Nowthe ftalke which beares the foureor fruit is tenchlike ait thes + : T} n May os * this y Seas “Ww ind do recouer them againe in the Spring Worthipfull Gentleman M.Thomas 632,[ receiued from the or floure of this 1¢ pretty Julws ict 0 my me ean hough it growerhwith vs.in many Gardens, S. ‘ +hewantof che ttue Calamus being fupplied by Acorusas a (uecedanewm, was the caule. (4s eer Hecht ofa fi be King,te it the primeplace ; and bet were madea Viee-Roy, wouldneeds Buttooke the falfeneffe ofthevponit title was difco- mered |
