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Show Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. —— OFthe Hiftory of Plants: “Lier. Li sii a. 9 3 Pepomaxitius compre/fi. The great flat bortommed Pompion, : S : . Melones aquatici edules Virginians. The Virginian Water-Melon. This Melon ot Pompion is like and fully as bigge as the common Pompion,in fpreading, run- ning,creeping branches, leaues,floures andclafping tendrels : the fruit is ofa very blackith greene colout,and extendethit felfe in length neere foure inches long, and three inches broad, no bigger norlonger than a great apple,and grow along{t the branches forth of the bofomes ofthe leaues,not farre from the root euen to the toppes of the branches,containing a fubftance, pulpe, and flat feed, like the ordinary Pompion: the root is whitith , anddifperfeth it felfe verie farre abroad in the eatth, and perifheth about the beginning of VVinter. Ovtober the tenth, 1641. iohn Goodyer ’ q The Place. All thefe Melons orPompions be gardenplants : they ioy beft ina fruitfull foile, and ate com. moninEngland ; except the laft defcribed, whichis as yeraftranger. ; q The Time, ie are planted at the beginning of Aprill: they flourein Auguft: the fruic is ripein Sep- tember, i q The Names, Thegreat Melon or Pompion is naméd in Greeke wm: in Latine likewife Pepo : The fruits of them all when theybe ripe arecalled byacommon name in Greeke,wmn: in Englith,Millions or Pompion. Whereuponcertaine Phyfitions, faith Gelen,haue contended,thar this fruit ought tobe Called orienmr, that is to fay in Latine,Pepo Cucumeralis, or Cucumber Pompion. Pliny in his ninth bookethe fifth Chapter writeth, that Cucumeres when they exceed in greatneffe are named Pepe. #8 :itis called in High Dutch, ylubers in Low Durch, yepoenett sin French, Pompens. @| The Temperature and Vertues, _Allthe Melons ate ofa cold nature,with plenty of moifture : they hauea certaineclenfing qua- A liti,by meanes whereofthey prouokevrine, and do more {peedily paffe through the bodie than docither the Gourd, Citrull,or Cucumber,as Galen hathwritten ‘ ; The pulpe of the Pompionis neuer catenraw, but boiled. Forfo ir doth more eafily defcend, B Paicilvaeusieearonates 5 rhe foxallroand Indian Pompion. 5 ; 6 Pepo Indices engulfs The. cornered, Indian Pompion, making the belly foluble. The nourifhment which commethhereof is lictle,thin, moift and cold, pe » faith Galen) and that efpecially when it is not well digefted : PYreafon whereofit maketh iene aptand readie to fall into the difeafe called the Cholericke Paffion, and of fome the Fe- _Thefeed clenfeth more than the meat,it provioketh vrine,and is goodfor thofe that are troubled © With the Lone ofthe kidnies. Thefruit boiled in milke and buttered,is not onely a good wholefomemeat for mans body,bur D wate adsalfoa moft phy ficall medicine for fuch as haue an hotftomacke, and the inMts inflamed. The fleth or pulpe of the famefliced andfried in a pan with butter,is alfo a good and wholfome E meat: butbaked with apples in an ouen,it doth fil the body with flatuous or windie belchings,and 1s food vtterly unwholefome for fuch as line idlely;but vatorobuftious and ruftiek people nothing hurteth that flleth the belly, Cuar. 346. Of Wilde Pompions. q The Defeription. S there is a wilde fortof Cncumbers,of Melons, Citruls and Gourds,fo there de certainewilde Pompions,thatbe fo oftheir owne nature. Thefe bring likewife forth rough sah c, talks,(et with fharpthornyprickles. The leaues be likewife rough:the yellow meee the garden Melon,but euerypart is leffer.The fruit is thicke,round, andfloures fharp poinlikethor $2hard oreene rinde. The pulpe or meat whereof, and the middle pithwith phe teed ate © ot the garden Pompion, but very bitter intafte, 2 The Thefe aie tein fecond iseelike vnto the former, “SoESee but it is altogether lefler, wherein confitterh thesl diffe- Hhbh 3 q Th |
