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Show a Theatrum Botanicum. CHAP.44. TRIBE 2, for I thinke he knew notthe next hereunto which | call/y/w«fris,and is called Zizyphus [ylvesiris alfo of Came rarius,of Lobel & Pena Iujuba [ylveftris,who think itto be Rhamnus altera or Palinrns Theophrafti, mentioned in — ee his 4. booke and 4. chap. of Zchannes Ponain the defcription of Afons Baldus Chama zizyphaand Zyzzpha fylven ftris, The Arabians call it Hanenand Hanab, and Zufalz, of the Italians Guggiole, the Spaniardes eAxufeofa e The Theater ofPlantes. TRIBE 2 Cuar. 45. fruites,by boyling they alfo drive forth the long wormesofthe belly. There is a kinde ofBirdlime made of thefc the thema little in water to take awaytheir skinnes and (tones, and after boyling them more to a confiftence,. it in Ezypt,as a plaifter to which as Afatthiolus faith was uled at Venice tocatchbirds, but A/pinws faith they life * diffolve hard tumors otfwellings, Acofeifo, the French Injubes and of fome-Guindoules, the Germanes Rothufibeere, and Bruftbeerlin, the Putche Injuben‘and in Englifh Iujubes, The Vertues, The Iujubes (efpecially while theyare frefh much more than being dry) doe opén the body and gently purge choller, and clenfe the blood.thus faith 4 &warius and Simeon Sethi, yet Matthiolus following the opinion of Avicen, denyeth that they have any purging quality in them at all : all authors doe agree, that they coole the heate and fharpeneffe of the blood, and therefore good in hot agues, and doe helpe them that have a cough, to expectorate tough flegme, andis goodfor the other difeafes ofthe chefts and lungs,as fhortnefle ofbreath, hot diftillations,8c, proceeding fromhot humors: it is alfoto good purpofe ufed to clenfe the raines and the bladder fromgravell, which it performethbythe vifcuous quality in them, in making the paflagesflippery, and the eravelland {tones toavoyd the more eafily, theyalfo {tay vomitings procured by fharpe humours; bur they are hard of difgeftion,and doe noteafily paffe out of the {tomack,being eateneither frefh or dryed, they are therefore ufed in decoétions alwayes withother things, fit and corivenientfor thofe griefes aforefaid. Cuap, XLY, Rafcws, Butchers Broome, He firlt fhootes that {proute from the roote of Butchers Brome ate thicke whitifh and thorts fomewhat like unto thofe ofAfparagus, but greater, which in fomeplaces are eaten in the fame manner that A{paragus fhootes are; thefe rifing upto be 4 foote and anda halfe high are {pread into diverfe branches, greene andfome- whatcrefted with the roundnes,tough; = . Ryfiws. Butchers Broome, 8 pliant, and flexible, whereon are fet fome what broad and almoft round, hard leaves; fharpe and prickely pointed at the ends, of adarke sreene colour, and fomewhat like unto Mirtle leaves, Cuap. XLIIII. 1, Myxosfive Sebeften, The Sebeften or Affyrian Plim. eae He Sebeften tree groweth fomewhat lower then the Plumtree, covered with a whitifh barke, the a) branches are greene, whereon grow rounder thicker and harder leaves then they ; the bloffomes are Xt white confifting of five leaves a peece,growing many together on a long ftalke, which afterwards turne into{mall Berries rather then Plums, of ablackifh greene colourwhen they are ripe, every one ftanding in alittle cup,ofa {weete tafte, and glutinous or clammy fubftance, anda very thicke skinne : within which lyetha three{quare hard ftone, with a thicke fhell and a {mall kernell: ‘thefe are gathered and laid in the Sunne, wherebythey grow wrinkled, and : i: Sebeficn, The Sebeften or Affitian Plum, fo they are kept, and brought over unto us in boxes. 2. Seheffen [ylveftris, The wilde Sebeften. it groweth lower, more like unto a hedge bufh,and with lefler and thinner leaves ; the flowers and fruit are alike but leffe. The Place. Afparagusberry whenitis ripe, but greater wherein are two or three white hard round feedes contained: the rooteis thicke, white, and great at the head, and from thence fendvth forth diverte thicke, long tongh whitt ftrings, The Place. The time. Tt fhootethforthhis yong budsin the Spring, and the berries are ripe about September;the branches and leaves abiding greene all the winter. The firlt erowethin Syria,and isbut planted in Ecypt, as ‘Alpinus faith, and from thence were brought into Jtaly, in P/iny his time, which were grafted on the Service tree, The Names, It is called in Greeki=ep: px Oxymyrfine;i, acuta Myrtng pupoivn ay pie, Myrtus [jlveftri,( but there is another Myrtus fylveftris accounted of among the ancients, which is like unto the tame or magured kinde ; )and Pliny inhis 15. Booke and7. Chapser, confoundeth and do nowgrowin manyplaces there in their Orchards : itisfo tender,.not enduring the cold with us, that wee canashardly keepe it, ascaufe it to {pring, the fhell of the ftone beingfo thicke and the kernell fo {mall : The other as Alp,n# {eemethto averre,is haturall of Egypt. both thefe togethet, in giving to the one the faculties of : the other.) poymsrSe Myrthacantha, Myrtis [pinofa, They flower in (May, and thefruit is gathered in September, The Names. The treeis called in Greeke xvE@ and the fruit po'Far Murina fpina,and of Theophraftus xevTpoupplyn rhine, Pliny faith they called it Chama myrfine, or rather Aceron which is one of their baftard names,of the Latines Ra/cus and Ru/cum,in theApothe- i vu keand vutcea a muccofo fruciys lentore s ulEov enim muc- ops Brufeus,and of {ome as Marcellus faith Scoparegia, The Arabians Serapic, and others fowly erred in calling the berries hereof Czbebe,which are certaine aromaticall graines or berries like unto Pepper, but with a {mall point or end. Ruellius tran{lation of Dio/corides Greeke coppieis faulty herein, that he faith the berries hang downefrom the leaves, whenas the Greeke wordsare, it hath round berries inthe middle ofthe leafe, which Theophraftws confirmeth in his 3. Booke and 17. Chapter, faying itis proper as, well to Lavrus Alexan= cumfignificat, in Latine myxos for thetree, and Myxaand 4Uyxaria forthe fruit : itis thought as Ruellius faith that the Syriansin honour of Augufius, calied them Sebafte from whence the Arabians called them Sebeften; and the driaas Rufcus to beare the fruite on the leafe. The Italians call it Rufco and Pongitopo, as if you would fay Pricke- Apothecaries in their fhops ufe that name onely. The Vertes. fhort or no foote ftalke;and in the place whereof commetha {mall round berry green at the firft,andred like an This groweth generally throughout this Land, in copfes, and upon heathes and wafte grounds, and oftentimes under ornearethe Holly bufhes. The wild Sebeftenis in all things like the other,but that The Time, two fer the moft part fer at a place very clofe or neare together : about the middle of the leafe on the backe or lowerfide from the middle ribbe breaketh forth a fmall whitifh greene flower confifting of foure {mall rotind pointedleaves, ftanding upon 4 very , even asthe Germans doe Muef{dorn,and both from the Greeke pvdxarSe, ALurina {pina quod arcendis mu= F ppen(a circumligetur: the Spaniards call it lus barta G Gilbarbeyra: the French Buis. piquant, ndepalinre sand we in Englifh Kneeholme and Butchers Broome, The Sebeftens by the judgement ofboth Arabians and Greekes doe openthe bodyin the fame manner, or rasalar ee of the eemeiscines inthem, then The Vertues, ndleaves of Butchers Broome are hotin the fecond degree,and dry in the firft with fome tenuitie of s fhootes are eaten like unto Afparagus,but becanfe they are more bitter,they are rather ufed Phy- Crue Fema while they are greene, and setae sinh a yet the decoétion ofthem, or the oth,althouch dryed and taken whole worketheffettually, which Fu/chi E Rook y profitable to openobftrnétions,to provoke urine, and to amendthe {trong {mell thereof,and . he five e e theybinde rather ; they fetve to coole any inteme that inhota affirming bis5 denyeth, ftomack orli heateofthe liver perate and therefo re are good gues, and to purge choll we ean a he ro often found byhis experience, that ten drams bs svi sscaaieeCaffia Fiftula ah — mint ne skins and ftones, worket h as well and toas good purpofe, as the pulpe of e the cough and e w heefing of e the Aearren : iftillati oaons upon them, Seie by e nian lenifyin g the ra se e paffage and canfine a “9 hipaa ahi bri ae etothem much ny he belly that are troubled with paines in their fides, and veloufl rem thatare troubled with the fharpeneffe of their arine, proceeding from choller or faleBesues the opening diureticall rootes in the Apothecaries fhoppes,helping to ¢xpell gravell and the ftone, ,and womens monethlycourfes by drinking the decoétion of the rootes made with wine: the fame h the yellow jaundies, and thehead ach, and with fome fugar or hony put thereunto helpeth to exid to clenfe the chelt of much clammy humours gathered therein : “Déofcorjdes attributeth to s:yet fome doubting ofthe operation hereof to fuch purpofes.as afore is faid, and confolidating of broken bones andparts out of joynt,as Solomonsfeale ¢ like, to drinke the decoétion of the rootes, and apply them poultis wife unto the affected place. sor flalkes with leaves ferved in formertimes for many ufes, to-binde their vines or other his Verfes doe teftifie in the fecondof his Georgicks in thefe words, |