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Show oe Cuar. 42 — Theatrum Botanicum. TRIBE 2 € France, did beare Agaricke : and in his 35, Booke and 9. Chapter,he faith that A garicke was but a Mufh- aof a white colour, towing upona tree about the Bo/phorus, and in anotherplace thatit groweth upon the i i arch tree is the chiefeft: whereby it is plaine, that the ancients did Cone-beating ggdoraSyak eure neare Comalch, he found Agaricke upon diverfe Oakes, and in of Thee or everereene Oake which faying AZatthiolys contradiaerh, faying that in all Ts kany, and 2ged ek Italy, as alo in diverfe countryes of Germany, Carniola and Dalmatia whichabound with all Tekinies of Oake,Re could never fee, nor fo muchas heare that any Agaricke grewon them ; my that he faw diverfe other hard dry Mufhromes, both white andblackecalled touchwood growing upoh aa e, wherewith the people ufto take fire, that the fteele and flint doe give, andufeitin ftead of Match e “ c wige their fow= ling peeces with all. As alfo that he never faw. Agaricke growing upon any tree, but the Larch tree onely, in all the. mountaines of Trent and Avania, where there be many Oakes growing, as well as Firres, Pines, and Pitch trees, and Larch trees abtindantly : yet many doeaffirme there is growing in many places upon the bodies of mahy trees akinde of white Mufhrome, {fo like unto Agaricke, that many miftakeit for Agaricke, ; The Vertues, bite , There is inthe leaves, barke;and fruit of the Larchtree, the fametemperature thatis inthe Pine tree, thé Turpentine thereoftaken to the quantitic of an ounce will gently open the belly, and moveto the ftoole, provoke urine; clenfe the reines kidnies and bladder, and helpeth to breake and avoid the gravell and lione, andto give cafe to thofe that have the gont : if it be firft wafhed withPlantaine and Rofe water, then madeintopills, with the potidet of white Amber, red’Corall, Mafticke, and a little Camphire, it doth wonderfully helpe to ftay the Gonorrhea or tunningofthe reines, if they be taken for certaine dayes together, and taken fimply rowled in Sugar it helpeth it well sit is profitable alfo for the Prificke or Confumption of the lungs,being taken with hony in an Electuary, it helpeth to expectorate rotten flegme,from thofe are troubled with a continuall cough: the Turpen- tine as it is the cledreft for inward ufes, and ferveth in {tead of thetrue Turpentine, fois it the beft alfo for otit= ward falves, and doth both draw, clenfe and heale all fores orulcers, either neworold, and greene wounds alfo, and therefore thereis fearce any falve made for ulcers and greene wounds, wherein Turpentine is not put, there is likewife an oyle drawne chimically from Turpentine, which is fingular good to beufed in wounds, being more drying and confolidating than the Turpentineit felfe, as alfo to warme and eafe the paines of the joynts and (jnewes caufed of cold : the water thatis diftilled with the oyle, is ufed for freckles and {potsin the face, a {cruple in waightofthat water, taken in white wine procureth a vomite, thereby giving much eafe to {uch as have their ftomacks overcharged with flegme, the oyle is profitably ufed in hollow ulcers, being dropped into them, or a teht dippedin it and put into theulcer: it isgood alfo for the wormesand deafeneffe of the eares ufed with a little Oxe gall: fomeufe to mingle bay faleand Tarpentine together, and therewith {pread a girdle ofleather, and tie it abouttheir waftes that have an itch, which by wearing fomefmalltime, will cure theitch that is {pread over the bodie, as well as the hands. Agaricke is a medicine offrequent and familiarufe, often byit felfe, but moft commonly with other purgers, to operi obftruétionsofthe liver, {pleene, andintralls, purging fleemein efpeciall, but in ‘generalall other vitious humors, offending any memberof the body,and becanfe it doth fomes what trouble the ftomacke, and procure cafting, it isufually corrected withGinger, and given with Oximell thatis fyrupe made with vinegar and hony: for it purgeth both thinne and rotten tough flegme, both yellow, hard, blacke, and burnt choller from the head and braine, from the breaft and lungs, from the ftomacke, liver, and {pleene, ftom the reines and blacke, and from the wombe,asalfo from the joynts, finewes and mufcles, and here byhelpeth tocure the difeafes that proceede fromthem,that is {uch as aretroubled with the gout,dropfie andfal- ling fickneffe, jaundife,the chollicke and hardneffe to make water,the {ciatica or paine ofthe hips,the pale colour in women caufed by the {taying oftheir courfes, the fhortnefle of breath, the cough and confumption of the Jungs, the (pitting ofbloud, the paines ofthe mother, the fharpeneffe of nrine and the wormes: it is helpefull alfotocureall forts ofagues, either tertians or quotidians, to eafe the griping paines ofthe ftomacke and belly, or fuch as have had falles or bruifes, or are burften bellied, all which actionsit chiefely performeth by purging thofe groffe and vitious humors that trouble the parts and membersof the body, and are the caufes of all thefe difeafes it isan antidote againft all poifons, and cureth the bitings of Serpents very quickly, halfe a drame or two fcruples being taken in wine, either by the infufion or the pouder: for the other difeates afore fpecified, adrammefliced, and put into a gentle purging decottion but not violent, or into an infafion, isthe moft general mannerof preparing it to be given;if it be boyled in lye with other Cephalicall helpes, it much comforteth the braine and memorie, and giddineffe of the head to be wafhed therewith,as alfo helpeth to ftay the rheumes and catarrhes thereof, and clenfeth it much from {curfe and dandraffe. Cap, XLITI, Zizyphus five Injuba, The lujubetree. Lthoughin former timés, there was but one fort of Jujube knowné yetnow havetw. hreé S which fhall be fhewedin this chaprer. 7 Rema 1. Zizyphus five Iujuba major. The greater Tujube tree, = S The Tujubetree groweth fometimes tobe very high, but moreoften toareafonable height, having his {temmeor body, bowedorcrooked, and {preading ratherin breadth the wood whereof is whitith and hard, covered witha tugged barke, from whence {pread great branches, ; and from the leffer and flender whitifh twigges, about a foote long, full of ther, but onealittle above another, with anodde leaves fet on both fides, not ufually dire@tly one againft anoone at the end, each whi ereofis {mall fomewhat broad and inted at the end, dented or finely nicked about theedge ard in handling,each ftanding ona thort foote ftalke,a s, with long y: tines in them, {mooth and fomewhat nd very likeunto the leaves of Paliurus'or Chrifts thorne: at Tripe.2. The Theater ofPlants. ae at the foote of évery leafe towards the topfies of the twigges comeforth, {mall yellowith flowers, of five leaves apeece, where afterwardsftand the frnire, which is fome- Cuar.43. ~ neti 1, Zizyphus five Lujuba major. Chegreater lujube tree. whatlike unto a {mall Plumme or Olive, but little longs greene at the firft, and then it isfomewhat harfh, and yel- lowith after, butred and of ateafonable {weeteneffe, yer fharpe withall,and fomewhatclammy when theyareripe, flat as it were atthe lower end, next the (talke, whofe skin is thicker and harder than a plumme, and the (tone within it is {mall firme and folid, long,round and pointed like unto an Olive or Cornelian Cherry ftone, both for forme and hard- neffe : allthe branches both greater and {maller are armed ‘with thorns,two alwayesata joynt, wherof the oneis long, flrong, fharpe pointed and ftaight, and the other crooked, both of themrof ablackifh red colour, like unto the elder branches: the rootesare long andfirmein the ground. 2. Zizyphusfive Injuba minor. The leffer lujube tree, This lefler Iujube tree is very like unto the former, both for the forme ofbranches,leaves and flowers, but lower and {mallerin all parts, the fruite alfo is alike, red whenitis ripe, with fuch anhard firme Olivelike ftone, asthe former, but the fruite hereof is {maller and rounder, and not long like as the otheriss it is as thickely and {trongly armed with thornes though fomewhatfhorter thantheother, 3. Zizyphus five Injuba fylveftris, The Wilde Injube tree. This low Wilde Tujube tree groweth much lowér and mote like.a fhrabbe than the lalt, and more cruelly armed alfo with {mall fharpe thorness the leaves are like but {mall, growing in the fame manner, but fewer on atwigge: the flowersarelike the other, the fruite isround and red like the laft, and fomewhatleffer, but dryer of fubftance, nor havingfircha pulpie fubftance as either of the former haye, and more auftere ever whenitis ripeft. The Place, The firft groweth naturally in-4frica, EGypt, Arabia, & Syria &thofe more Eafterly Countries, fr6 whence as Pliny faith ; it was broughtinto Zta/y, and planted there in his time by Sextus Papinivs, in the latter end of (x/ar Adoupius his reigne, which nowa dayesis very frequent, not onely in many gardens, and Orchards of Italy, but in Provente of France alfo : itis fo tender that it feldome abideth long inour Country, becaufe it cannot endure the cold: Theother likewife was brought into Jraly in thefe later times from Syria, whereit is onely to be feene, but with a few that are loversofrarities: The laft growethwilde, inthe fieldes by the hedges, not farre from Verena; ‘ aboundantlyas Porefaith, The Time. : Theyall fhoote forth in April (for none of them doe hold their leaves all the Winter} and flower in ALaye their fruite is ripe in Seprember, The Nimes, Ie is called in Greeke Zi@uga a 2iZi9n Ziaypha & Zinzipha, of (olumella Ziziphus, of Clufius Ziziphus rutila; of others Rabra and Punicea,and of the Arabians from whom the Apothecaries tookeit Iujabe, and fo doe Lobel and Penas Angwillara thinketh it to be the Lotus of Athanaus,as alfo the Lotus of Theophraftys, that grewin the Ifland Pharis, mentioned in/ib. 4, ¢. 4-whichis moft likely, for it hath a dented leafe as he faithlike unto Hex; Wheréunto this is more like, than the leafe ofthe Lerus arbor, whereof Thave made mention in my formet booke. Some doe thinke that this fruite is that which Galenin 2, alimentorum calleth Serica, and unto this opi« many doe adhere, efpecially becanfe Avicen entreating ofInjubescalleth them Serica, for his title is thits} is ide5t Sericis, yecitis no other likely, but that he was miftaken, for many worthy and léarned men, doe St of it: but P/iny maketh mention of Sericum, before Galens time; inhis 15. booke and 14, chap. to be orie of the kindes of Tuberes (which we take tobe Nuciperfice Netorins, for inhis 16, booke 25. chap. he reckoneth the Tuberes, wich the Almonds, Peaches; and Apricocks, as if they wereallof one kindred, and in his 17 booke and 10, chap. Ke faith that the Tuberes, are beft grafted on the Wilde Plumme &c.and thereforeit is like= ly he thought them of that kinde of Plummes) of the colour of raw filke (and we have ayellow Weélorin néere unto thatcolour) whereofcame the name ; which’maketh me thinke that Galex his Sericum fould not differ from yes, {eeing they lived not any long time, one before the other in Rome, and therefote the name could not bee there altered : for Galen rather allowing of thofe things that were conducible to medicine, (and we knowthat Iujubes are fo) then of {uch adid pleafe the palate onely;as Weétorins are, and were fit and defired ofware ton women and children onely as hefaith, did not greatly cominend the fruite for any goodto the bodiés health, yet Iverily thinke, and.of this opinion, is (ornarins alfo, that hisand Plinyes Sericum are allone. And althouch Atat thiolys {eemeth to finde faule with Plinye his booketo be falfe,.in naming but one fort ofZizyphus,and two of the uderes, when as Columellay «<viten, and Sethi, make two forts of Zizyphus, yer affaredty their other white NRT Is good onelyto kill all foure footed beafts, in the fame manner that Oleander doth. The othet Cordig in his biflory of plants maketh mention of, and calleth it Jujuba minor, and whichmaketh meto thinke itto bee a Tuber, it is very probable to be the Patisrus Africanus of TIbeophraftus and the Zizyphus /ylveftris ofLugdunenfis oe for |