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Show 154. Cuare3 , * anh eie Theatrum Botanicum. Trisg, 2; z for it dothnot every yeare withus ) fpringeth forth a {trong round ftalke, divided into fundey: brara ae ‘t livers fomewhatlarze white flowers hanging downewards, confifting offixe leaves with di. = So a aires reddith or bluth colour fpread on the backe ofthe three outer leaves,from the middle to the ie notreaching tothe edge ofany leafe, which abide not long, but quickly fall och without bearing any feed in our Country, as farreasconld be obferved by any hath growneinthis land,orin France, cc, The Place and Time, / | a ntti Trise 2, The TheaterofPlantes. eet ct al . C aan eeae 1,2, Lapathumfa'dinfrve Patientia ep eae eto 3, Hippolapatham wneectee vel Rabarbaruns verses, totundfyes vee‘. SantTuite Peeye ‘ ee ‘ . ‘ This erowethin divers places of the Weft-Indies,andinour Englifh plantations alfo,of gene New England, as it hath beenc confidently affirmed to me. It fowreth not untill the middle or latter end of Iu ly, the flowers fal- ling away withina while after they have beene blowne open. ; The Names. Thatit cannot be the true Yucca of Oviedus ,Thevet and_others; whereof the bread called Cafavi is made, both they and Afonardes thew plainely : for the tine Yucca bearéth leaves divided Into fevenor nine parts, ftanding on long foot-ftalkés, ‘Yet not knowing what otherorfitter name maybe givenit, let it hold ftill thar name ofZaccu ot Yeeca, or Ayjacca ifyou will, untill a fitter may be knowne. Bawhines callethit Iuccafis Alves. The Fertues. There hath not beene knowne any property conducible to any difeafeas yet foundout, or rélated ofit. Some Merchants Factors have affirmed, but how probable I know not, that it groweth in fomeparts of Turkie naturally, and that they make a kinde ofcourfe cloth from the threadsinthe leaves, which are {trong tors were furely deceived herein, for if it doe grow there,it hath beene onely broughtto and hard : but the Relathem,asunto us and plan= ted : the natives formerly in Virginia,as I heare,did and doe make bread ofthe rootes hereof, as they of Hifpaniola doe ofthe true Iucca, and much after the fame manner, anditis faid likewife, thar the raw juyceis dangerous, ifnot deadly : Addinus relateth that the wourid madebythe fharpe pointend,of wroughtfuchintolerable paines, that he was almoft befide himfelfe, untill one of thefe leaves in his owne hand, by applying fome of his owne Ballamum thereto, it miracutoufly eafed hinrofthe anguifh,and all other trouble thereof, Cuap. : SY = é SIG, YY NYY VE ES Ik YY MUU WL Uf ITI, Lapathumfativam &Rha, Garden Dock and Rubarbe, Say ||Ecaufe both the trueand the baftard Rha ot Rubarbe are BB By) therefore placed therh together withthe Patience or forts of Dockés; as fall be thesved ; Thave garden Docke in. oné Chapter, and tinto them EB) for thenamesfake, rather than for any knowneproperties correfpondent, § 3} ther Ihave adjoyned two oe h Ze Plants called alfo R ha, although they have no refemblance unto the Dotkes, = as the otherforts of4 Rha have: 1. Lapatham fativimfive Patientia, Garde s s Rubarb n Patrence,or Monke e; : ( = i Ze). aS , 3 = eT ES : i : Garden Patience isa Docke bearing the name of Rubarbe, for fome fimall purging quality therein, up withlargetall ftalkes fet with fomewhat and groweth broadand ftalkes being divided into {mall branches, beare reddith long faire greene leaves, not dented at all, the “toppes ofthe ust yl My \ W Zr za:l :vi we) J RC F Dockes ; the roote is long, great andyellow,like into or putplith fowers, and three-{quare feed like unto other the wild Dockes, buta little redder, andif it be a little dry= next doth when it isdry, 2. Hippolapathitm votundifolinm vulgare. Comm ‘ : on Great round leated Docke, or baftard Rubarb e. This Baftard Rubarbe hath divers large round thine yellow ifh greene leaves, rifing from the roore, little vedabout the edges, every one [tanding on areafonable thicke and long brownith foote-(talke, from among warifeth upa prettybigee {talke, about two footeh which igh, with fome fuck leaves thereonas grow below, but {maller at the toppe whereof Itand ina long {pike ntany fmall browni fh flower s, which turne into hard theee-fquare fhining browne {eed, like unto the garden Docke or Patience : the roote ed, fheweth leffe ftore of difcoloured veines then the gtoweth greater than that many branches orgreat fibres thereat, yellow onthe Patience, with out-fide, and fomewhat pale yellow withinof , with fome difcoloured veines therein, like to the Rubarbe next to be defcribed, but much leffe thanit, efpecially whenit js dry whichthenhath quite loft that freth colour, whichth e other Rubarbe holdeth perfpicuoutly, ’ 3 Hippolapathum maximum rotundifolinns exoricum,five Rhaponticum Thraciumfed verins Rabarbarsm verum. Saas True Rubarbe, or Rubarb us, or Englifh Rubarbe. : Becaufe in myformer Booke, I made onelya fhorte ofPort relation ofthis Rubarbe, and the effe@s thereof; good here to give youa more ample declarationther I thinke eof, forit deferveth to be worthily accounted of. At the firft hea thereof ont of the ground ; whenthe Winter is paft, it hath agreat round brownifh head, tifing from t edn phe ~ of the rote, which openeth it felfe into fundry Icaves, one afteranother, very much crumR elded together at thefirft, and brownifh, but afterward {preadeth it felfe, and becom an - almoftround, every one ftanding on a browni f{mooth - very th ftalke, of the thickneffe ofany mansmeth thumbe,when they a : ri pet fulneffe, and molt ofthem two foot and morein length;e{pecially in anymoi “ret vs oeoo” q-eeco nexte ft or good ground; nVe ig unto is leafeit felfe; being as long, much,of afad or darke eonla ah May depress seveonges acl frome ge to edge being equall, or as leafane t h a n t ; greene colour , and :thicker in fubRan aane .~ t oe than the laft,ofa fine tart cerifeth = Wood or {owrih taite,much more Sorrell from among thefe up fome, but not everyye are, a {trong thicke Stevery jqutan ene: . iy atience = a a with fach round leaves as grow below, bur {malle r Be eamong the flowers,w hich are White, contrary tothe lalt recited Baftard Rubarb, » Apreading forthinto manybranches, andconfifting Wishemcmet ae of five or fixe {mal! leayesz e thres acdc, and eping to bee all white threads + after tobea Docke : therdo rt erowan iors : eae gets whereby it may beeplainely knowne t pote groweth in time tobe very great, withdiners it, ofa darke brownithor and reddifh colouron the oatfide, and with hesfrom, le yellfandrydet greatcertfpreading n¢ innerfubltance'ot raore ; Whichrinde HS branc Sranches and -outfid re W e, ar d wit ra pale yellow thin skin under it, Which covereth Hinde and skin being pared away, the roote appearethof fo frefh and lively 4 colour, Zot vith fleth colotiréd vein€s rimnine thorow it, that the choifefh ofthat Rubarbe, that commeth to us, froma ; ah a A he oe Sa ell sa im h roote; if it be dryed carefully, andasit ought (which muftb e in our. Ce : ute et osoe off a vt it re Ane the heate of rhe Signe to dryit; asis ufed inthe natura ll plaSaat y a iene le atfr 2 aching ene (which thing maybe obferved,is alfo done by the Indians, im Shedr 7 me Etha Pb eo *n ae em upon firings to dry them apart : ) will hold his colour almott ; tee, foea fe fhai eine atect as ueeaviten the {pittle when it is chewed, bes cae ‘a. it yh Jet ag ye but not fo'much, nor hath that Indian root hath,as I have faid before ,I have divers yeares taken up of thefe nee “aiddied chen azetah Berane eee you,and they have beene fhewedto the beft and whohave dptkoved offhiem.and divers ofout Phyfit molt skilfull, ians have oftentimes ufed them, and very many othgrs to good urpofe Purp : Rbisbieraden & Ponticum génninvin offitin arum, The trae Rubarbeand Rhapanticke of China, and the + e : Shops, Matthiolvs hath given tis a figure ofRubatbe, which he fetteth forthfor thé trué, but frony whom of hencebe had it, he declar eth not, andit might béa figmen tout of his feemeth to fay that he learne owne braine , as fomeot d from Perfian Merchants, that it did grow in the Count hers ofSuccui his ares a sheng eS ry of je@to he’Gio rhei oF Cathay, inthe r, whichi s, fubMotintaines, wich the chiefe City thereof, called alfo Succxir, whofe figure and delfeription divers other ‘Abthors hive folio tied: Zismdenel-si: bis firt Booke and.12, Chapt er at the compofition of Medicines, rélatety alfo,, that a Merchant who Had formerly beene an Apothecarie, an refident in Perfa a Ione time, did report unto him,that there grew thé hilly places in Perfiz, and that Rebarbe in great abund it was‘ cattied from thence into trué upon Syria and Egypt > and ome ance, sheng es divet’s other Cortntries ofthe world:but afluredly that Rubarb ,which is ufed nowadayesinail the world, Lar efe int allthe 2 or Countries ; this in Chiift r commriehth chief this partpar the world, chiefly ATOM f comret he Count Tndies,and hath iah beene broughtof Ene Sounthryy of Chinain by Arabian,ofTorky, Ealtsoe the tad and other Is Mereha vans : Cas they cali them nts, in former times from thence over. 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