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Show ~Ofthe Hiftory of Plants, i, Lis.3. 2 Zizyphus Cappadocica growethnot fo great as the former,but isofa meane ftature,and full of boughes : the barke is {mooth and even, and that which gtoweth vponthe trunke and ant, boughes is ofa {hining fcarlet colour: out of thefe great armes or boughes grow flender twigees fecond place ofthe next pat igure that formerly wasin thefecondplace,was of the narrow leaued kinde ofGudjacum Paravinam, which you fhall finde in the chapttrfaas Ones white and foft, whicharefer full ofwhitifh leaves, but more white on the contratieor backepak {mall hollowyellowith floures, growing at the ioints of the branches, moft commonly three to gether, and of a pleafant fauour,with fome few threds or chiues in the middle thereof, After which fucceedeththe fruit, of the bigneffe and fafhion of the fmalleft Oliue, white both within and without,wherein-is contained a {mall ftone which yeeldetha kernell of a pleafant tafte, and ; Cuar. 123, Lotus arbor. @ The Defcription, ey-He Lote whereof we write is atree as big asa Pearetree,or bigger and higher: the body and armesate very thicke;thebarke whereof is {mooth,ofa gallanr green colour tending to blewneffe: the boughes are long, and f{pread themfeluesall abourc: the leanes be like thofe of the Nettle, fharpe pointed, and nicked inthe edges like a faw, and dafht here and there with ftripes of a yellowith white colour : the berries be round,and hang vponw long ftalkes like Chertiespof a yellowifth white colour at the firft, and afterwards red, but when they be ripe they be fomewhat blacke. Matthiolus writeth, that Zizyphus candida is found in thé cloiftersofmany monatteries in Italy. Lobel faith that it groweth in manyplaces in Venice and Narbon; andit is wont nowoflatetobe planted and cherithed in the good lieft orchards of all the low-Countries. . Zizyphus Cappadocica growcth likewife in manyplaces ofItaly,and {peciallyin Spaine sit is alfo cherifhed in gardens both in Germanyandin the low-Countries, £ It gtoweth alfohere in the gardenof M'.John Parkinfon. $ q The Time. . Thefe trees foure in Tune in Italy and Spain ; their fruit is ripe in September ; but in Germany and the low-Countries there dothnefruit followthe floures. ‘ ci @ The Names. : Zizyphuscandida Auicen calleth Azederach,or as diuers read it, AXederaeth-and they nameit, faith he, in Rechi, drbor Mirobalanorum,or the Mirobalanetrec, but not properly, and in Tabraften,and Kien, and Thihich. The latet writers are far deceiued in taking it tobe che Sycomore tice; and they asmuch, that would haueit robe the Lote or Nettle tree: it may be namedin Englith,Bead tree, for the caufe before alledged. @] The Place. his is arare and ftrange tree in borhthe Germanies : it was brought out of Italy, where thereis foundftore thereof, as Matthi~ olus teftifieth: Ibaue a fmall tree thereof in my garden. ‘Thereis likewifeatree thereof “ , The otheris alterafpecies Zizyphi,or the fecond kinde of Iuiubetree,which Columella ia his ninth bookeand fourth chap, doth call Zizyphus alba, or white Luiubetree, for difference from theother _ tharisfyrnamed Retila, or glittering ted. Pliny calleththis Zizyphus. Cappadocica, in his 21 booke, #igth chapter, where he entreateth of the honour of Garlands,ofwhichhefaith there be two forts, whereoffome be made of floures, aidothers of leaues : Iwould call the floures (faith he)brooms, in the garden ynder Londonwall, fometime belonging to M*. Gray, an Apothecary of for ofthofe is gathered yellow floure, and Rhododendron, alfo Zizyphawhichis called Cappadaties The floures ofthefe are feet of {miell,andlike to Oliue floures. Neither doth Galumella or Pliny vnaduifedly take this for Zizyphus,for both the leaues and floures grow out ofthe cenderand yong {prung twigs,as they likewifedo out ofthe former:the floures are veryfweet of fmel, and cafttheit fauor farabroad : the fruit alfo is like that ofthe former. : ees ee i : @ The Temperature. ; Cduicen writing and intreatingof4Zadaracth, faith,that the floures thereofbe hotin the third degree, and dry in the end of the fir. Zizyphus Cappadocica is cold and dry ofcomplexion. q The Vertues. ; The diftilled water thereof killethnits andlice, preferueth the haire of the head fromfailing efpecially being mixed with white wine, and the head bathed withit. : The fruit is very hurtfull tothe cheft, and a troublefome enemie to the ftomacke; it is dang rous, and peraduenturedeadly. Morcouer,it is reported,that the deco@ionof the barke and of Fumitoriewith Miro Thelike alfo hath Rhafis.- the Beade tree, faith he, ishot and dry :it is good for ftopp London; and: another great tree in a garden neere Coleman {treet in London, being the garden of the Queenes : at; the : Apothecarie : impreffion hereo!, called M'. Haga Morgan, a curious conferuer of rate fimples. ine Lote tree doth aifo grow in Africke, butit -thirin I hissth : in doth thew ie in plaine ny in i plaine wo words i i Pliny A fruit,as in Lif, Lote Italian the from fomewhat differeth Ee ae bringet — vs, t owards Lic faith he,he thatt lieth Africke,¢, faith f Africl é chapter. : That partot teenth{ booke,feuenteenth ( well knownein Italy yeu altere h the famous Lote tree,which they call Celts, and thefame bad a ee ne The floures of Zizyphus,or ‘ARadaraeth open the ob ftru ions of the braine. ded, is good for agues proceedinig of flegme. : Thetuice of thevppermoft leaues with honeyis'a remedie againft poifon. Of the Lote,or Nettle tree. The Nettle tree. a: @ The Place. 14.93 Aloochotlicking medicine made thereofor the fyrtup, is excellent good againft {pitting of G bloud proceeding of the diftillations of fharpe or falt humors. and arelike to the leaues of Willow, but narrower and whiter : amone ft thefe leaues come fuk veryfiveet. Ofthe Hittory ofPlants. — Lis, 3. refembling a Chalice: afterwhichfucceedeththefruit, coucred with a brownith yellow{1 nel.very like vnto tye fruit of Iuiubes (whereof Dodozeus in his laft edition maketh ita kinde) of, a rancke, bitter, and vnpleafant tafte, witha fix cornered ftone within, which being di awhe on a ftring, fe. S ueth to make Beadesof, for want ofotherthings. the son the boughes,after the manner of the M yrtlenot as in Iraly,after It grow exetiil tharcountrieand nameto a giuen alfo hath it as weet, 3 is there fof ner etof of the Cherrv = tl +9 t. f ite countrey. owne i forgetfull oftheir s.and " | ee ,al adl i elly ; the head ; it maketh thehairelong; yer is the fruit thereof very offenfiue to the ftomacke, a” tentimes found tobe pernitious and deadly. ahs a Matthiolus writeth, that the leaues and wood bringeth death euen vnto beafts, and thatthe Pe)” fomthércofis refitted by the fame remedies that Oleanderis. ea Zizyphus Cappadocica preuaileth againft the difeafes aforefaid, but the decoction thereat S good-for thofe whofe water {caldeth them with thecontinuall iffuing thereof,as alfo for? 1 : * ee haue theoan running of the reines and the exulcerations of the bladderandpriuy parts. } F Al Nepos Cornelius reporteth it to nile «itis as big asthe Peate tree,although There “tree. iw AO to beetike cuts, otherwife like thofe= of ees tree — = Pah theyeK be thought en Abeer Ri\l of fine isas mig as a Beane, fruit the fruic: bythe efpecially made are fame the but ences. mat and of the -olour ofSaffron,but beforeit is thorowripe, it changethhis color as dorh the Grape. man- * harg hiesd td eate it.. The Lereal dilea of thebelly that trout with ‘no nodifeafes are troubled harthey are tharthey is alfo preffed out . ae < no kernel! whichin the other kinde is ftony : there fea ae i ; hich the perties the fame Nzpes denieth to endure aboueten daies, and ‘in veffels for food. Moreouerwe haue heard fay, that arm seo ; een s wood ts bie nivarot ae pa(fed too and frothorow Africke. The colour a a yr a a ar . fhore F workes: nd other : ? KE Smet 4 Th oth ; hafts,anc sto make flutes and pipes of it: the root ferueth for kniues place he faich,; that this : renowhe fame Pin f; } p! I fame the POAT In peice P/izy. farre thus tree: ofthe nature hefhewerh chapter ofa Tifamon and in his‘e , 5: booke, xC, 7. te pico yout Syrtes and Nifamone: of the plenty he leffer Syrtis,the Ifland Menyax, furnamed Lotophagitis, Strabo |
