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Show 1610 An Appendix to UAmomum quorundam, forte Garyo by llon Plin ; The Cloue-berry ae : ‘ the Hiftory ot Plants. affinitie of fmell it hath with Cones9 ¥ alfo for another caufe, which ‘I Wilh net Cwar. 19, OfGuaiacum,or Indian Pock-woods " hereafter.) Lames Garret in'the yeare veal fent me from London this roun d ff it commonly biggerthari Pepper corties vat fome leffe, wrinkled, ofa browni(} idea s fufficiently fragile; which Opened [fount contained a feed roundjblack,ivhi ch migh Absanch oftheGuaiacum tree. be diuided into two parts, of no leffe be kown wood, thoughofa tree vaknown; orat leat not eértainly knowne’; for this’ figurewhich here gitie you out ofC/ufius;was gotten, and the hiftorie framed ‘as you fhall heate by his own words,taken out of his scho- Gawponthe 2'1"Chapter ofMowardus. About the beginning (faith he) of the yeare r60 1. I recéited fromPéter Garret a branch of a foot long, which he writ was giuen -him by a certaine Surgeonlately returned’ from America, for abranchofthe tree Guaiacum : which if itbe a branchof the true Guaiacum, then hath fue inchesJong,and two anda halfbroad. others did not exceed 3 inches in lenet h, and thefe were not twoinches broad and fome a'fo were muchleffe and hatrower than thefe,efpecially chofe chat were found mixed with the berries,differing according tothe place in the boughes or branches Nicolas Monardus {leightly enoughfer dawn the hiftorie ofthis tree, I thus defcribed this branch whichwasfent me. This branchwas a foot long, very writhen, and diftinguithed with many knots, {carfe at the lower end equalling the thicknefle of a writing pen or gaofe quil, having an hard and whichtheypoffeft. I ob{erned noneamong them whichhad fnipt Jeaues, but fmooth, with many fmall veines running obliquely from the middle rib tothe fides,with their Points now narrower,otherwhiles broader, and roundifh: they were ofa brownith ath yellowith wood, anda wrinkled barke o° an afhcolour:atthe vpper end ir was cigided into flender branches,whereof fomeyet retat- esPfieeor ‘ee ae : the branches which were added to the reft were flender quadran But I morediligently confideringg this Exoticke fruit,» f finde fome primen igel shic i do much i ; omenonwill ingenuoufly profeffe what I thinke) to. iud geit ie elhe Pliny for a aiics a after he hath treated ofPepper addes thefe words : [ There is befides in keene tke to the Pepper corne, whichis called Garyop hyllon, but more greatandfragil red ts ts “seh an Indian groue; it is brought ouer for the {mels fake.] aS on Fae fuccin&,neither containes any faculties of the fruit it Though this defelfe, yet it hath Haiti . ich, compared with thofe whichthefruit I here gine you poffeffe, you fhal find coe Ag 34 comparing them to Pepper cornes,yet bigger and more fragile, asfor the moft Pp . e f ae : their fmell is alfo very pleafing, and commingvery neere to that ofCloues, ed aia i mells fake only they were brought ouerin Plinies time. I found,this frvit being chewed made the breathto {mell well : and ar is credible, that it would be good for many other purpe- fes, iftriall were made, CHa? Vaiacum,which fome tall Lignuim Suan. étum » others; Lignum vita’, is a well maticke tafte and fmell than the fruit t felfe, and infomefort refembling that of Cloues mt growes in bunches ofclifters as I conieétured by many berries whic h yet kept their ftalks, 8 two or three whic h ftucke to One little ftalke:to thef were added leaues ofone form,but ofmuch dif. ferent bignes, for fome of themwere fenen inches long, and thtee broad ; fome onel 5 with a barke of aniafh colour,and thofe wer they ofa yea th ; for t thofe th t were of an after growthwere brownith os 1 wnifh,an [ : ¢ had yet remainin d they maison g the prints where ‘theetae Jeaues bed had theeps pri chee growne, whichfor the moft part were one againft another,and thefe alone ofanacride tafte,as well as the leaues, and of no vngrateful] fmell. Moke: Ireceiusanecere i fome yearesbef ore, but withoutth 1 e ftalks,and with this queftion proith — wath tha aa it, An Amomum ? And certainly the faculties of this fruitare norvery andityaa saa i oa ees to his Amomu m ;for ithath an heating aftridiue ig , and thinke it may performe thofe thi h Libs Caps 14faith his is good; good.5 y yet thiis wa nteth {ome notes which things whereto Diofcoridides, es, Lib,\. he giuesvnt 7 Mole i / ohis, i as the leaues a of Btyonie, i &c. G, The Defcription, Guaiaci arboris rameuluss ned their leaues,and other fome the floures and the rudiment ofthe fruit: the leaves, or more tryly the wings or foor-{talkes of the leauesgrew vponflender branches one againft another, each winged leafe hauing foure or fixe little leaues, alwaies growing by couples h, round, and diftinguifhed witli one againft ot her, as inthe: Mafticke tree , and thefe were thickif the d) wouldeafily fall off, leauing manyveines, whichby reafon of th cir drineffe (as 1 obferue leaues had beene. Inthe knots of the s wherea rkes ma the ning retai footftalks naked, and onely of which together grew fix, eight, ten, or the vpper branchesthere grew as it were fwellings, out g a floure not great, confifting offix little more {lender foot-ftalkes, fome inchlong, each carryin f the drineffeindge:)out of the by reafono leaues (but whether white, yellow, or blew, I couldin not the radiment of the fruit began to apfome and eds, ttlethr manyli grew floure ofthe middle of the common Shepheards purfe. ‘ fell peare, hauing two cels, almoft fhapedlike the feed-vef fruit from twoor three, but the moft perfe& Thus much Clu/ius, whoafterwards receiued the they are commonly parted into two parts or : fromthe learned Apothecarie Zohn Pona of Verona h {tonesin them almoft like thofe ofEvenymus,, cels, yet he obferued one with three:he found longit ning @ and they confifted ofa very hard andhairyfubftance like a] = to that of the Date ftones, contai fmooth kernel ofa yellowifh colour. 1,W hat I hae obferued my felfe of this ns of Monardus : then,w Nowwill I giue youthe defcriptio may giue fomelight to the ignorant. Ofthis yet which wood, which I mutt confeffe is very little, , faying that it is§either Ebonie,ora kinde wood (faith Monardus ) many haue written many waics gisee thefere foundinROT 1 Oe new kinde ot not isa t Butasi s. name other fome of Box, or calling itby ei ate sheeupees r th only but nts, Antie the y b ibed U ep TAae ons, or anyother of thewhole world defer be,it isa largetree of the bignes 0 4 if oe fo this fhall be anewtree to vs : howeuer It aioe ee ee Ne wood ofthe ance fubft the ches, hauing a great matrix or blackith pith, le nes @ tM ° :the when thewoodis dry falleth eafily off the barke is thicke, gummie or fat, and feeds around follid fruit, containing init by wed follo is which the : w yello and hard : the floure like thofe of the Medlar. it j It growes plentifully in the-Ifles of S: mito Domingo. Anothez ee |