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Show Of the Hiftory of Plants. i IF10 fidevpwards, 3, The fame cut through the middle longwayes, 1 b3 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 4. ‘The famecut fidewayi [hau been told (but howcertaine itis I know not) that the floures which precede the fruit ax bell-fafhioned,and ofa blew colour. Icouldobferue no feed in the’ fruit, it may be it was be! caufe it had been cut from the ftocke fo long before it came to mawiritie. This Plantis founding many places ofA fia, Africke, and America, efpecially in the hot regions : you mayfind frequent mentionof itamongft the fea voyages to the Ea ft and Wet Indies, by the name of Plantainesoi cureth loofeneffein the belly: whereuponit is requifit for fuch asare of acold conftitution,in the _ cating thereofto putvatoita litcle Ginger or other{pice. It is alfo goodfor the reines,or kidnies, and to prouoke vrines it nourifheth the childeinthe mo- B thers wombe, and ftirreth to generation. Platanus, Bannanas , Bonnanas, Bouanas, Dauanas, Poco, oc. fome (as our Authorhath faid) haveind. ged it the forbiddenfruit; other-fome, the Grapes brought to Mofes out of the Holy-land. + Cuars 137. Of the Date tree. Mule fructus exactior Icon, Anexaéter figure of the Plantainefruit. Palmarumfructus Gflores cum Elate. The fruit and floures of the Datetree. Palma. The Date tree. : @ The Place. d This admirable tree growethin Egypt, Cyprus, and Syria, neere vntoa chiefe city there calle Alep, which we call Aleppo; and alfo by Tripolis, not far from thence: it groweth alfo in Cana The Defiription. ra, Decan, Guzarate, and Bengala,places of the Eaft Indies. @ The Time. From the rootofthis tree fhooteth forth yong fprings or fhoots, whichthe pe ople takeis ypant mber,as abouc plant for the increafé in the Spring ofthe yeare. The leaues witheraway in Septe aid. ee ; The Names. A" Iris called mufaby fuchas trauell to Aleppo : by the Arabians, Mufa Mau mz in Sytia,ateree” th be The Grecians and Chriftians which inhabit Syria, and the Iewesalfo, fuppo fe it ro 0panties whofefruit Adam did tafe, which others thinke to bea ridiculous fable: ofPliny, ayo,Pice” ane It is called in the Eaft Indies(as at Malauar whereit alfo groweth) Palas - in Mal in that part of Africa which we call Ginny, Bananas i in Englifh, Adams Apple tree. = r in t! ‘ @| The Temperature. 1 Diofcorides and Serapio iudge, that it heateth in the endofthefirft degree, and moiftneth end of the fame. ; q| The Vertues. breaft, !ungs Thefruit hereof yeeldeth but littlenourifhment: it is good for the heate of the A andbladder: itoppeththe liuer, and hurteth the ftomacke if to o much ofit be eaten,an” curctit He Datetree groweth very great and high : the bodyor trunkethereofis thicke, and coue- red witha fcaly rugged barke, caufed by the falliag away of the leaues : the boughes grow onely on the top, confifting of leaues fet vpon a wooddy middle rib like thofe of Reeds or Flags : the inner part of whichrib orftalkeis foft, light, hollow, and fpongie. Among the leaues comeforth the floures included ina long skinny membrane, asit were a fheathor hofe, like that Which couereth the Floure de-Luce before it be blowne, which being opened of it felfe, white certaine Oures ftartforth, ftanding vpon fhort and flender foot-ftalkes, which are faftened with {mall filaments or threddy ftrings like vntolittle branches: after which{pring out fromthe fame and many times branches the fruit or Dates, which be in fafhion long and round, in tafte fweet, fomewhat harth, of a yellowifh'red colour ; wherein is contained a long hard ftone,which 1s in flead ofkernel! and feed ; thewhich Thaue planted many times in my Garden, and haue. growne to theheight of three foot? but the fir frof hath nipped them in fuch fort, that fooneafrer for their = peri(hed, notwithttanding my induftrie by couering them, or what elfe I coulddoe ccour, @ The Place. The Date trees grow plentifully'in Africa and Egypt; but thofe which are in Paleftina and Mmmmmm _ Syria, |
