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Show y ESaa beiamaoP) Beeb ie bak rage... Ofthe Hiftory‘or Plants. ea Ofthe Hitterie of Plants. 1542 a q The Deéfiription. i THs firft figure hereoffetteth forth vnto your view the cod wherein the hot {pice licth butof colour ruffet, thruft fall of{mall feeds or gtaines ofadarke reddith colour(as the Figure thewethwhichis diuided) ofan exceeding hor tafte. z called Cazaua is made,is a low herbé PEPE * Cloues. The fruit is like a great cod or huske,in fhape likea Fig when it groweth vponthetree Gabarrsagya « Of YuceaorFucca. confifting onely ef leaues and roots ;it hath ke which wecall Graines : im hops, GranaParadifi : it groweth, by the report of the Lear. ned, vpona low herbyplant: the leaues are fome foure inches long, and three broad, with fomewhata thicke middlerib, from which run tranfuerfe fibres ; they much in fhape refemble thofeof Yucca,fine Iucca Peruana, q The Defcription. * ‘The root whereofthe bread Cafaua » 9 . -“or Cazaua ‘is made.” *** He Plant of whofe ror the Indian bread heither ftalke; floures, norfruit,that 1 can vn- derftand ‘of-othérs, ot by experience gf the plantit felfe, which hath growne in my gar« denfoure yeares together, and yet doth grow and profper exceedingly ; neuerthelefle with- Cardamomigenera, The kindes.or forts of Graines. out ftalke,fruit,or floures,as aforéfaid. It hath avery great root, thicke and tuberous,and ve- rie knobby,full of ‘iuice fomewhat {weet in tafte, but of a pernicious qualitie,as faith my Author: from which roor rifeth vp inmedi- ately forth of the ground very many leaues ioynedivnto the head of :thesroot in around circle; the which are long, ofthe length of a cubit, hollowed like a.gutterortrough, verie fmooth;and of. agreene colour,like that of Woade: the edges of .theleaues are fharpe like the edge of a»knife, and- of. browne eqs lonr: the point ofthe leafesis a prick qsthar, * as aneedle, which-hurtech ‘thofe thar vnadyss fedly pafle by it:the leafe with aduifed eye viewedis like vntoa little wherry,or fuchlike boat : they arealfo very tough, hard ta break, and noteafie tq cut, except the knife be very tharpe. + Zobel inthe fecond part of his Aduer(a- ria largely defcribes and figures this plant; and therehee affirmes hee wrota defcriprion (the which he there fers downe) for ur Author ; bir he did not follow it,and therefore committed chefeerraurs : Firft, in that hee faith itis theroot whereofCazaua bread.was made , when as Zobel in hisdefeription faid hethought it ta he * Theotherforts may rence confifts in forme, bediftinguithed by the fight of the pi Cture, confidering the onély diffe- : =o @ The oe grow in Ginny, and the CatdamonesinPlace, all the Ea ft Indies, from the port of Calecute vato Cananor it groweth in : : . Malanar,in Toa, and in diuers 0 ther places, The Time. They {pring vp in May, being fowneoffe©] ed, and brin 8 their fruit toripeneffe in September. : : “G _Graines are called in Greeke, xeaiuw: The Names, in Latine, Cardamomum - ° fthe Arabians, Corrameni - of diuers Gentiles, Dore : of Auicen, Saccol aa quebir Gi ,) magnum : the: other, Saccolaa ceguer (i,) mivns. Tt is called in Malauar, Etremel- in Zeila chi. The firft and largeft {ort are called of n, Eacal:: in Bengala,Guzarat , and Decan,Hiland Elsfome, Mileguetta, and Milegetta : in Englith, Grains,and Graines of Paradice, : : @ The Temperature Auice nwrit <wi eth; ; that Szccolaa,Car kek aen > d,amoinum, Of Grana Paradi if?, are hot and dry in the third degree, : Alia fpecies a Yc¢a Indica ex qua panis communis fit. Secondly,in that he fet downe rheplace ¢put af the Hiftoria Ligd. (who tooke itout of Theuer ) endeauouring by that meanes tocon found it with that there mentioned, when as he had his from M". Edwards his man. And thirdly, (tor which indeed hewas moft blame-worthy, and wherein he moft fhewed his weakeneffe) for that hee doth confound it with the A¢anibot or true Yuicca, whichallafirme to hauea leafe like that of hemp,paried into feuen or more diuifions :,and.alfo inthat he puts it cothe ar rchidna of Theophraftus, when thedeniesieboth floure and fruit , yet withinfome few yeares aftersour Author hadfer forelt this Woke it Aoliredin his garden, DSL tel CELE c This fone yeares purs fortha pretty ftiffe round -Ralkefome three cubits high,diuided intodiWeis vnéquall branches catrying many pretty large floures, fhaped fomewhatlike thofeof Fritilthecolour of aria, Dut that they are narrower at their bottomes: the leaues of the flourearefix: the infide white,bir on the out fideof an oucrwosne reddifh colour fromtheftalke tothe middeft Ofthe leafe. fo'that it is a AOure ofnogreat beautie, yet to beefteemed forthe raritie. T faw it Sieefloure in the garden of M‘. Wilmot at Bow,but neuerfince,thoughit hath been kept for am Jeates'in fandry other gardens, as with M:. Parkinfon and M", Tuggy. This was eee : x Sur Author; and fince by Lobeland M°. Parkinfou,who keepe the fame name,as alfo Banhine,who to iRtingiiith it from the other éalls it 7 uccafois.A loes.. q. The Place. The Vertues Theaa Graines chewed ewed int A. ah in the mouth drawaforth from the : head and ftomacke waterifh and piculTheyalfo comfort and warme the weak e, cold, and feeble ftomacke,helpe the ague, and rid the B: thakingfits, being drunke with Sacke, CHAP “This‘plant growethif all the'tra@ ofthe Indies, from the Magellane ft raights vntothe cape of Flotida,and in mot of the Iflands of the Canibals, and others adioyning, from i whenceI had that Ifull Apothecary of Plantbrousht methat groweth in.my garden,by a feruantofaleamed and ski icefter;neamed WM. Tho. Edwards. Ooo000g 2 qt |