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Show “Las yl Of the Hiftory ofPlants. Stonie wood, or wood made ftones. St greene;among which comeforthvery faire floures,ofa blew colour tending jolla. nefle; after commeth the fruit ofthe bignefle ofa Cherry, greene at the firft, and blacke wh “ee is ripe ; without atte, and feadyto fall downe witheuery little blaft ofwinde: the vitibétor ie feldome’feene, and knowne but of a few , and that of fuchas hauepainfully travelled in the fecrets of Nature. This ftrange alteration of nature is to be feene in fundry parts of England & Wales, throughthe qualities of fome isofa white colouty andavery. pleafant {mell. Hs 2 There islikewife another which growethvery great, the foures and fruit agree with t waters and earth,which change fuch rhings in- other ofhis kinde : the wood is of a yellowith colour, wherein confifteth the differetiee. pofe for triall put intothem. In rhe North part.of England there is a Well neere vnto ss £ 2 Thethird fort which wee call Red-Saunders isa very hard and {ollid wood hauin li tleor nofmell, the colour thereofis veryred, it growethnotin thofe places where theother Da neither is the forme of the tree defcribed by any. that I knowof, it is frequently vied to ios fauces, andfor fuchlike vfes. + : a. q@ The Place, gece! eleae co or and that in’ great aboundance, in an Ifland a — ad : oe aft- oe the riuer Sangesor rather Ganges, which the - ns call Haaga,and alfo about Iaua, where it is of better odour thanany that groweth elfewhere. Tl beeps pean the riuer Ganges,efpecially about Tanafarim,and inthe mart eye many eM api, and moft of the Mauritanians call it by a a a hie) and in places neereadioyning, Chandama:in Decan and in Latine, Sandal wm and Santalum,adding thereto for the colour album, flanum, ym, hat is,white, yellow,andred Saunders. a E @ The Time, : *hefe cans which ate the white and yellow Saunders grow greene Winter and Sommer,and arenotone knewne from another, but by the Indians themfelues, who haue taken very certaine notes and markes of them,becaufe they may the more {peedily diftinguith them when the Mart commeth. : @ The Names. to ftone as. dofall therein, or whichare of pur- Knaesborough, which will change any thing into ftone, whether it be wood, timber, leaues of trees, moffe, leather gloues, or fuchlike. Therc be diuers places. in Bed fordthire, Warwickfhire, and Wales, where there is ground thatifa Rake be driuen into it, that part of che ftake which is within the ground ofthat qualitie, retaineth his former fubwillbea ftmeand hard ftone,and all thatwhichis aboue the ground fantafticke people did timeasour fuch (about Rougby at being felfe my Alfo nature. flanceand Wells of Newnan facred the vato headlong run and repaire with great concourfe and multitudes difeafes)I went cureall could life,which of water the vnto as Regis, in the edge of Warwickthire, Ath tree, whofe fom thence vnco thefe Wells; where I found growing ouer the fame a faire rotten,and fone thar boughes did hang ouer the {pring of water,whereof fome that werefeare and Of thefe boughes into ftanes. ofpurpofe were brokenoff, fell into the water, and wereall curned in pieces, therein might be broken had I when which London, into brought I tree ofthe orparts andflourings ofthe tree buds many yea ; ftones ito tumed was reft feene, that the pithand all the the fame fhape and faretaining ftill ftones, hard into turned filling into the faid water,were alfo water were proned. this if bur doubtnot I warer. the fhion that they were ofbefore they were in of them,orother fpecial about the hardning offome Confections Phyficall, for the preferuationbenefit of mankinde, than health and ehds, it wouild offer greater occafion ofadmiration for the tending tovery little purpofe. experimented, been haue already thingsas {uch about itdoth Their names haue beenfufficiently {pokenof in their deferiptions. ; @. The Temperature. T ie ellowand white Saunders are hot inthe third degree, anddry in the fecond. The redde Saunders are not fo hor... ¢ = : The Vertues. The Indians dovfe the decotion made inwater, againft hot burning agues, and the ouermuch flowing of the mehtfes, Evifipelas, the gout,and all inflammations,efpecially ifit be mixed with the juice of Nightthade, Houfleexe,-orPurflane. ‘The white Saunders mixéd’with Rofe water, and the temples bathed therewith, ceafeth the paine of themegrim, and keepeth backe the flowing of humoursto the cies. «Anicen to. be goodforall : affirmethit : = Saetig et paffions of the ; hart, and maketh it glad and metry, and therefore good to be put in collifes, iellies, andall delicate meates which are made to ftrengthen and reuiue the fpirits. + Red Saunders haue an aftrictiue and ftrengthning facultie, butare not cordiallas the other two,they are vfed'indiuers medicines and meates both for their facultie andpleafing red colout which they giuetothem. + Cuar.170. Of Stony wood, or wood made Stones. G The Defcription, contrarie vito mans Ae the wonders of England this is one of great admiration, and reafon and capacitie, that there fhould ‘be:a Kinde of wood alterable into the hardnefle of a ftone.cailed,.Stonie wood. or rather.a)kinde of water, which hardneth wood 40 : other things, into the nature and matter of ftones. But we knowthat the workes of Cn wonderiu:t, ae, goodly: :branches;whereonaré fet leaues like thofe of the Lentiskd tree allt Cuar. 17 Of the Goofé tree, Barnacle tree, or the tree bearing Gee/e. f Britannice Conche anatifera. The breed of Barnacles. ‘ ees eee He Saunders tree gtoweth, to thie bigneffe of the Walnut-trec, garnifhed with leaft of them, whichwe dayly behold ; much more ifwe turne our eyes vpon thofethat are ie casteat= Lignum Lapidenm, fiuein Lapides conuer{um, SIE: 2 wonderfull, ifwe doebut narrowly fearch the q The Defcription ee = Ofthe Hitorie of Plants, |