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Show Ofthe Biftorie\of Planta 1436 Se Li B.3, or Lonchitisas writers affirme the other is gathered inthe {pring,which is reddith,worfer dane.Je other in price or value,becaufe it isnot fo well concogted in the heat of the Sunne, The Arabiaans wound this treewith a knife,that the liquour may flow out more abundantly w hereof fome trees yeeld threefcore pounds of Frankipfence, { gilts i q The Place. oe,eid faithit groweth in Arabia,and efpecially in that quarter whichis called Thutifers the beit a atcountreyis called Stagontas,and is round,andif it be broken,is fat within andwhen it is burned doth quickly yeeld a fmel:next to it in goodnes is that which growethin SmiloJefi than the other,and more yellow. | The Time, = The timeis already declared in the defcription, : h ; | The Names, Seti Itis called in Frenc in Greckeni h enr : in Latine,7hus eek in Tralian,I Italin acenfo-in Thus:: in Incen(o-i Dutch,Wueitauch: ftauch:inin Spanith, Spani C A B : » Encews : in Englith, Frankincenfe, and Incenfe: in the Arabian tongue,Lonar, and offome few ,Condir. ¢ The Rofin carries the fame name but in fhops it is called Olbanam, of the Greeke name andarticle put before it. + es ' 4: The Temperature and Vertues Nenad Dikondsfaith, a power to heate and binde. : the Spaniards, A/hocigos, and Fifticos : in Italian,Pyfacchi : in fasion: the Apothecaries, Fiftici ‘Grolith, Fifticke Nut. Boglifh, aq The Temperature and Vertues. ; they be oftentimes eaten ee be thofe of the Pine Apples are Nuts e Fiftick The kernels of the n nuts: oftemperature hot and moift;they are not fo eafily coeecaae much eafier than commo no {mall nourifhment,theynourifh theitice is good,yet fomewhat thickesthey yeeld to the body : 5 ftrength. B bodies that are confumed:they recouer phthificke,or rotting awayof the lungs, ; the Cc haue that thofe for good are They r the lightsand che fk. D They concoét,tipen,and clenfe forth raw humours that cleaue to r the infirmities of the kidneies ; they alfo They open the toppingsof the liner,and be goodfo hey arealfo good for vicers. remoue out of the kidneies fand and grauell, andaflwagetheir paine:t , and eaten, doe procure The kernels of Fifticke nuts condited,or made into com fits,with{ugar breft,are good againft the fhortneffe of breath, and are an exdthe bodily luft,vnftop: the lungsan 4 : «3 os rie aOat at Nes areet allmanner eel of wilde of cellent preferuatiue medicine being miniftred in wine againft the bitings beafts. ite tdriueth th away aw. the imneflee ofthe eye-fight, e filleth vp hollow vicers,it i clofes raw wounds,ttaii- $i etha ; corruptions of bloud,although it fall from the head c a; oewri Galen tam og of it; Thus doth heate in i the fecond Q ‘ degree, anddrie ie in i thefirft,an i dhath ome = riGtion,but in thewhite there is a manifeft aftri@ion, the rinde doth manifeftly binde and =e excecdingly.and that moft certainly inthe fecond degree, forit is of more groflerparts than : okineenlcne not fo fharpe,by reafon whereof it is muchvfedin {pitting of bloud, fwellings E 437 ~OFthe Hiftory of Plants. ~ Lis.3. in ce : oe plone us in the belly rifing from the ftomacke,andbloudyfli xes. _ Thefu r imoke of it hath a more drier and hotter quality than the Frankincenfe it{elfe,being dry in the third degree. te ae Cuapr. 88. The Bladder Nut. breed the head-ache,and if too muchofit be drunke with wineit killeth, = > pie Cua. 87. OfFificke Nuts. é ; The Defcription. Hetree which beareth Fifticke Nutsis like than the Hafell nut, but greater than the Ram Cich,withawooddie fhel and fomewhat redz the kernell within is fomething green;in tafte at the firft fweet,but afterwards lothfome,and ready to prouoke vomit. after the fame maner,and in like order that they are,being ofa faint yellow colourout ofagree” the fruit or Nuts do hangby their ftalks inclu fters, being greater thanthe Nutsof Pine Ap- q The Place. : the husks ples;and muchleffer than Almonds Tt groweth in Italy, Germany and France; without is of a grayith colour fometimesred difh,the thell brickle and white ; the fubftance it groweth likewife at the honfe of fir Walter Culpepper neere Flimmewell inthe Weild of Kent, as alfoin the Frier-yard without Saint Paules gate in Stamford,and about Spalding Abbey, and inthe garden ofthe right honourable the Lord Treafurer my very good Lord and Mafter,and by his houfe in the Strand. Ic ofthe kernell greene,the rafte fweet,pleafant © be eaten,and fomethingfweet of{mell. } Fifticke Nuts growin Perfia, Arabia, oy ria,and in India; now theyaremade free ye zonsin Italy,as in Naples and in other Prouinces there. @ The Time. ee This tree doth floure in May,andthe fruit 4s ripe in September. q The Names. : in This Nutis called in Greeke mwa10 growethalfo in my garden,and in the garden hedges of fir Francis Carew neere Croydon,fes uen miles from London. q The Time. This tree flourethin May,the Nuts be ripe in Auguft and September. q The Names. Athi- 20° ueus: Nicander Colophonius inhis booke ofTreacles nameth it-frauor; Poffidonius namethite others,eimiun the Latines obferuing tH©) termes,haue namedit PifecionDips: 2 nuts, and fometimes no more butone,leflér 4 tothe Turpentine tree: the leaues hercot be greater than thofe of the Mafticke tree, bur fet @ The Place, ; ‘His is a low tree, hauing’ diuers young {prings growing forth ofthe root:the fubthe barkeis of a light greene : the leaues. confift of fiue little ones,which be nicked in the edgeslike thofe ofthe Elder, but leffer,not fo greene nor rankeof {mell. It hath the pleafant whitith floures of Bryonie or Labrufca,both in fmell and fhape,which turne into {mal cornered bladders ofwinrer Cherries, called Alkakengie,but ofan ouerworne greenifh colour: in thefe bladders. are contained two little G a Anicen te i = e helpe and ftrengthen thewit: and vnderftanding,but the often ta- Piftacia. The Fifticke Nut. pe ‘ ftanceofthe woodiswhite,very hard & found; 7o/coridés taith,that rh, ths if ibe drunk nk byby a man inhealthir driveth riueth him him into i frenfie: but thete there are few Greekes ofhis minde. ; —— it will @| The Defcription. Nux veficaria. peerenresgel na vp the vicers in the cies,like vnto Myrrhe: thus far Galen. g Ofthe Bladder Nut. : Itiscommonlycalled in high Dutch,impernuls.which fignifieth in low Dutch adimpertio= {diners call it in Latine P: ftacium Germanicum : we thinke it beft tocall it Nex velicaria, Mat. Molws in his Epiftles doth iudge the Turks Coulcoul and Hebulben to.agree with this:Gulielmus Quawhen Sheeus affirmeth,C oulcoul to be vfed ofdivers in Conftantinople for a daintie, efpecially Pling: they be new brought out of Egypt. This plant hath noold name, valeffe it be Staphylodendron - Keeece 3 for |