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Show 768 Cuwar.21, Theatrum Botanicum. © Tripré, The Theater of Plants. Prise 6. humors and for that purpofe is put into the Syrupus Byxantinus, which worketh to the fameeffet: the Confery cue made ofthe flowers,or a Weaeh candid are helping alfo in all thofe canfes,but are chiefely ufed as a Cordiall, and good for thofe that have beene long ficke and feeble or. in a. Cofimption,to comfort the heart and fpitits, ta lagenaria major. 3. Cucurbira longa. The long G dleGomd The eeaecsonn eee and thereby good for thoft that are troubled with often fwouningsor paffions of the heart. The deltilled water is no leffe effe@uallto all the purpofes aforelayd and the eyes wafhed therewith helpeth the redneffe and inflam. mations ofthem : the dryed herbe is never uled but the greene, yerthe afhes thereof boyled in mede or honied water is availeable again{t inflammations and Vicers in the mouth or throate, to wathand gargleit therewith : the rootes of Bugloffe are much more clammy and glewifh then of Borrage and therefore by fome good Phyfitions not held fo convenient to be ufed in opening decoctionsrforit is.thought by rhe tenacious muccilagines inthem,they rather helpe to binde then open obftructions,but may be effectual ina Lohoc or licking Ele@uary for the cough, dnd to helpe.to condenfate thin fegme and rheumaticke deftillations upon the Lungs, Ihefe otheforts of wilde Borrage or Bugloffe are fomewhathotter and dryer, and are very neare unto the propertie of Echinm Vipers Buglofle whofe Vertues I fhallnot neede here to reiterate, I fhall rather referre youto their Chapter to be informedin the particulars thereof. Crap. XXII, Cuvnrbita, Gourdes: = Here is fo great.a likeneffe of Gourdes, Melons or Pompions, Muskemelons, Cowcumbers, and Ciy trinilles one unto another, both in their manner of growing, and qualitie of cooling, that,the ancient Greekes, and others have much confounded them together, yet they dee each notablydifferre LY : one fromanother, both in the forme oftheir fruite and feede, befidestheir fife and colour. I have yu } in my former Booke {et forth the forts, both of Muskemelons,and garden Cowcumbers, whereof I fhall not needeto fpeake againe here, although I may give you fome oftheirfigures : of the wild Cowcumber,as alfo of the wilde or bitter Gourde called Colocynthis, I have {poken in the fecond Claffis of this Worke before : divers forts of Gourdes remaine to be entreated of, whereof the Pompionis a peculiar kinde, and having {poken NY | y aay Le \ os, SIN Le X f 7 i NN ANN i Vf sme ONIN Y Q Y] y y \ of the garden kinde thereof allo in.my former Booke, I entend netto repeate it againe, bnt of fome firange 2 wilde kinds;I mutt here comprehend under the Gourds,althoughtheir feedes doe differ Citralli Citrulles, which are accounted by divers to be kindes of Cowcumbers, but I doe rather referre them alfoto the Gourds, becaufe their feedes have hard thells, fuch as neither Melons nor Cowcumbers have, which two are of {o neare affinitie, AWS ENS + ZSQS this,and with them fome fuch ftrange fruites as have cometo our fight or knowledge fromforraine parts, where- F. of wetooke thefigures, and thatafter I have given you fomeof their defcriptions to fave manyrepetitions. 1. Cucurbita lagenaria major, The greater bottle Gourde: This gréat Gonrd groweth asallother of thefe kinds of herbes do,fpreading many great,rough and hairy armes Per ae rhe and branches,with feverall great and broad leaves,foft and almoft round,yet pointed at the ends, and fometimes dented about the edges fer upon long footeftalkes and long clafping tendrils like a vine, fet at other joynts whereby irclimeth, taking hold and winding it felfe about whatfoever poles,arbours,trees or other things that 2) 4 i : ¢ z 2a A ee, j ypti = 2) A SA AS —— pS KY) Sfp thattheir feede is very hardly diftingnithed. Of Citrulles I fhall entreate in the next Chapter,and of the Gourdsin 7 ie NDT Cucurbite Indica, O valis,Pyriformis © fererorundm, Indian Gourds,;Ov ee fathionyand almiopasainds Gourd, And the mY ftand next unto it,or elfe not having whereonto clime and raifeit felfe, itlyethon the ground {preading a great compaffe.as the Pompion doth,at the feverall joynts likewife with the leaves comeforthfeverall flowers in the fame manner as Pompions,Cowcumbers or Melons doe, butare very large nollowbells ending in five points or corners witha round greene head under each of them thatwill beare fruit, for many flowers wither and beare no fruit, not having that round greene head under the flowers whichfhould growto be the friit,and will be full and ready to come forwards withthe fhort ftiffe ftalke under ir, the colour ofthe flowers are either white, or pale white, orpale yellow,the fruit when it is ripehath an hard outerrind or fhell,yellowifh,large and round bellied, Hat at the bottomelike unto a bottle and {maller up to the necke, above whichis a {mall round formed head whereunto the ftalke is faltned, and fometimes without any {mall head, being pendulous or hanging downe not flanding forth or upright, within whichfruit lye difperfedly manyfeedes, having {mooth hard wooddy fhells, flat and broad at the upper end or head, and fomewhat pointed below, wherein lyeth a {wecte white Kernell : the roote confilteth of manylong ftrings {preading much within the ground but persfheth ufually with the firfrofts, 2. Cuctrbitalagenaria minor, The lefler bottle Gourd. This differeth from the formerin nothing bue thatit is {maller in every part as well leaves ftalkes flowers as fruit, which is ofthe fame formebur {maller. Cucurbitalonga. The long Gourd, This Gourd alfo differeth little but in the fruit and feéde from the formér,for the fruice groweth long and fometimes crooked.or bending likeahorne, almoft of an equall fife all the length which in fome places groweth to be of an incredible length; efpecially when the fruichangethdowne from fome high place, otherwife ly- ing on the ground. it never attaineth to halie that length, whofe outer Rinde is yellowifh in the hotter climates as ta aes fort is,buc with us whitifh,and feede thercin,fomewhat whitifh with us,and notfo broad at the head have fo nor fo hard. 4, Cucnrbitaclypeiformis five laciniata, ‘The Buckler or Simnell Gourd. There is a manife(t difference not onely in thefinite of this Gourd fromthe reft butin the manner of growing alfo,for it groweth upright withgreat hollow rough hairy crefted ftalkes, to the height of three cubites, and runneth not along onthe ground asthe reft, having greater leaves rough and hairy fet thereon, of a fad greene colour,and more cutin or divided on the edges: theflowers are bell fafhion like the others, ofa faint yellowifh colour ftanding uponthe head of the frnite which growing toripeneffe is fomewhat big and round toward the tale but flat torewards,with a crumpled verge orbrim, fomewhat cut in orendented, andthinner there then in anyotherplace,the forme doth much refemble thofe fodden baked cakes that ate made in Lent time which mee ca . , 5 : entituled, elfe rd ep Aaa vee: nApple,without - of an Apple; Kérnell ifo the So) eB Pe eaepen 4? (Smewhat li ue “ f and flatter at the head, ee 5 Cucurbitaverrncefa,. Rugged Gourds. afiteth onely in the round fruit, whofe {hell o barke isnot, finootha5 in others, but earleme ont ie eee SESE IRES. WEEE HRODDES ADF MALES: ee Fil 5 ; K Catnbite : |
