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Show Fe genteel 1400 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Gaullleonenavies esa £ 3 Syringa Arabica, Arabian Pipe. 2 ’ of a plea. fantfiveet fmell ; but inmy iudgement the ate too fweet, troubling and molefting th headin very'ftrange manner; I once putichl the floures and:Jaid themin my Chamber window, which: felled more ftrongly after they had liem together a few honres, with {uch an vnacquainted fauor;that theyawaked me out ofmy fleepe, fo that L could nor take any teft tilhT had caft themout of my cham. bers: When the flouresibe'vaded then follo. weththe fruit, whichis finall,curled,andas it were compact of many little folds, broadto. wards the vpper part, and narrow towards the ftalk, and black when it is ripe,wherin iscon. tained a flender.and long feed. The-roothere. of{preadethit felfe abroadin the ground,af. ter the manner of‘the roots.offuch fhrubbie trees, 2 The blew Pipe groweth likewife in maner ofa {mal hedge tree,with manyfhoots rifing from the rootlike the former, as out common Priuetrdoth, whereofitisakinde; The branches haue fome fmall quantitie of pithin the middle ofthe wood, and arecouered_with a datke blacke. greenith barke or rinde. Theléaues are excecding greene, and crumpledor turned vplike thebrinmes ofan hat, in fhape verylike vntotheleauesofthe Poplartree samong which comethe floures, ofanexceeding faire blew colour,compad of many {mall flouires in the forme ofa bunch of grapes: each floure is in fhewlike thole of 4 BalanusMyrepfica, fine Glans unguentaria, _ £ 3 This (which Clufins fecteth forth by the name of lafminuim Arabicum, or Syn. 4 Arabica) groweth fome twoor three cu- bits high, dinided into manyflender bra0- them grow Thefe trees grow not wilde in England, but I haue , Time. The | great plenty . ! . though but as yet they haue not borne any fruit in my garden, They floureein Aprill and May, . September ripein is inltaly and Sp aine their fruit sa pee : q The Names. x¥piyé : es is erat percocet Vd ae tlelater Phyfitians call the firfk Syringa, or rather like pips ‘i a not ie hollow are out, taken pithis andbtanches thereof, when the awhite floure, i? Scere gs H Pipewith or flore, candido mamed Candida, or white, or Syringa or blew Pipe: Enguth, V bite ulea, Syringacer named feftom Lillach, which is fometimes Pipes cefaid, do name Lillach, or Lilac + Of fome,theSyringa bianss Blew Pipe the later PIny) fitians,aswe haue ’s 0and the : Serapie Ben Ser Arabia -allit Ben er h, and callit nla, orblew Pipe: molt do expound the word Lillac much FLOM which a lac oe very catavia. which the Grecians name sareeyet’,* toe hoowlicene imisGlans f r howfo:euct5 Jut, ; ac forth h bringethhe eg i apparant, that. Lil/acat seins Seo it . is very rences f }i cod, the feed where of bat Yin it fal fly piGure it with one; for ithath only a little inferc inthis chapter, taf amo diffet: Matthiolus doth fica we haue thought g 90d to s Myrep of the Balanu todfeacall . Thece fioure “ ‘ eat fonvant ofa more conuenient roome, = . The Temperature and Vertues. ; ues haue found out anything / Concerning the vfe andfaculties of thefe'fhrubs neither we ourfel ae eo: an ' torlearned ought of others. Hydromel flue i AC y e eth vomit ; drunk with t Thes sionee Myrepfica taken 1n the quantitie of adram,cauf Statins eee 4 . t but is hurtful! to thehe ftomacke. itourees by oole, out ofthis fruit,;whichis vfually termed oye of Ben,asit hath no goodorplea Mevilepreffed | that it reafon the byage, ge, whichis netither doth it becomerancide fe ill fent, fo hath it noill i fag fne!!, mach vied by perfumers. esthe skin, foftens an ddiffolues hardneffe,and conduces to the cure ofall cold The oile {mooth leand noife in the eares, being mixed with Goofedefsofthe finewes ; and it is good forth e paine tendfo dropped in warmeina {mall quantitie. £ Gua 7i625,,0F Widow-Waile, or Spurge Oline. gq The Defeription. bits o i fmall fhrub about pa \\ [dow-waile isa 1 ttle leaues hi ce, unger aefubftan rawooddy ke is ofa TS ae : os = eesa like scorv re ees paft,the oe which : floures yellow le i on elie ends eaed grow{mallpa oo .oT =3 dethathree cornered bertie like the Rashyagies, for bs na ae ‘ it * =; , at anc rec. aafterwardard, frit, the at < greene greene are e r a s e j berries thefe : hef a Chamele ed thteebetti fi rigs, fullot i many fmall twigs, tanched with eWithered, and containe in theman oylie fat neffe a of the Fe ieeea be thinner, and not fnipt about the edges: 02 leaues andadrinac. < do boththe eleaues C as Ungtafte , and thar doe burne the mouth,. Wooddy, q, ThePlace. g anddefart pleFranee, , in rough d ococ inin Franee Ttisfound in i m ptilled grounds ofItaly agd Langue Jeauesfet in two tankes: thefefloures ate very a. Bs ches, whereon by couples ateachioint ftand leaueslikethofe of the fire deferibed, but the tops of ‘the branches growthe floutcs, wholly white,confifting ofnine,ten,ortwelue ‘ Oyle of Ben, 1,2. Valetriana rubra Dodovei, confifting of foure fauor or fmel,but notfo {trong asthe former. When thefe floures be gone, there fucceed flat cods, and fomewhatlong, which being tipeare ofa light colour,with a thinne membrane orfilmein the mid, wherein are feeds almoft foure {quare, narrowand ruddy. Of the Hiftorie ofPlants. ; he name of knownhe by then knowne ratly i vulgatly i ; andis of things divers other vouesand divers oloues @| The Place. 5 and parts likea little ftar, of an exceeding fiveet The Oylie Acorne. f{weet, hauing a fent as it were compounded of the Spanith Iafmine, and Orangefloures. It is a tenderplant,and maybe eraffed vpontheco™mon lafmine, whereonit thriues well; and. floures moft part ofthe Sommer.ft groweth plentiful- ly in Egypt ; and Proper Alpinus is thought to mention this by thename of Sambac Arabum, | Gelfemiaum Arabicum, $ Lib. 3 . 4 Glans unguentaria,or the oylie Acorne,is the fruit ofa tree like Tamariske, of the big?efit ofan Hafell Nut, out ofthe kernell whereof, no otherwi fe than out of bitter Almonds,is pr! ad at oylic iuyce which is vfed in pretious, Oyntments, |as\ Djofcorides affirmeth : neither is it our simewholly teietted ; for the oyle of this fruitymixed with fiveet odours ferueth to pe in my garden. nare q The Time ltisalwaies greene: the feed is ripe in Autumne. q@y The Names. fhort Oliue trees the Latines, The Grecians callit .évs as though they fhould fay, low ortt oliuella,as Matthiolus Syland likewile Citocacium : 1t 1s alfonamedof diuers, Dtteo, and “tous faith Oleaffellus, : itis called. in Englith, Widow-Waile, quia fact viduas. wut fe is decéiued, Gaith Darhe ‘> call Ch cnidicus : DU , Coccus Kiewr «ies xin Latine isnamed ofdivers, isnamed LCS) ee A Cocens Cnidicus : Auicenand Serapio call Cha- Ycerides, that nameththe fruitof Spurge-Oliue, Coceus :Cusans ; tae] t or Spurge Olive, . ndetwiii they hauealfo 2 ; tle, cAesereon : vadetwhich name notw!rithftandingve ey contained bes purge Oliue, o% ie confounded chamelea Or Spurge Oliue with fohauet and ; “ithe Chamzleonsot Carlines flax. 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