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Show CHar3. — 1392 Tripe16, Pbeatram Botanicum. Tripe16, ee thenthe rt the ha im ic, {tipticicy y and ceualta, edi more acerbit CQuertmy hath Writers Pilaia ut chatitmote both in Greeke and Latine,not t hatit is anunripe Gall,b ted oF th 7 * The Theater ofPlants. [ous quercinus. Miffellco of the Oke, Cuar.3.. 1393 Ze Vifeum Indicum G Policoccon The Miffellto of India,and that with-many berries together, fois cal greater and the yellower have: the Oke Appieal and AZollx. The Vertues, andcold inthe fecond as Galen faith, and being a The {mall Gall called Omphaciti is dry in the third degrce, ig faint and loofe parts, as the overgrowing In the flefh = fowre harfh medicine is fitto draw together,and faften r ftaying them effectually, efpecially thofethat fallupo repelleth and dryeth up rheumes, and {uchlike fluxes,by binde and alfo doth Gall whiter other the mouth: the of ces otherpla the gummes,almonds ofthe throate,and lefler quality of fowse harfhnefle imit, and is good dry,but fo muchleffe then the former,by how much ithath a Wineis in water 1s of a meaneaftri€tions but in againft the diffentery or bloody Flixe: the decoétion of them fit in or over this decotion being warme, thar women if it: then ftronger Wine red or ftronger, and in harfh the Galles themfelves after the boyling, them: helpe will it mother, the downeof g thefallin with are troubled that hath any hor {welling or inflammation downe, or being bruifed and applyed to the fundamentthat is falne burned and quenched hotin Wine or Vinegar, doth wonderfully helpe them: the coales of themwhen they are the haires blacke, and with them is made our are good to be applyed to ftanch bleedingsin any place,they alfo dye Oke Apple ismuch of the najure‘of the Gall, yer writing incke, and the Dyers ablacke Dye as all know: the fluxes, and fuch other like difeafes, and inferionr thereanta, but may beufed in che want of Galles, tor rheumes, tale of his Country Ztalzans, as Gerard doth ofour Kentife men, thatto good purpofe, CMattbiolw reciteth Gerard of Oke Apples, but botha like true, as muchto one purpofe, faving that A¢arthioins hathit of Galles,and Swithens day, and the like, whichfavour Saint day,and Pauls Saint tales,ot icating prognolt {uch of are anumber ce of Gods providence, torelye on fuch vaine confiden the from us drive ,to ftianity thenChri me Paganif moreof which is,that in the Gall (inthe and weakefignes,or fpeculations, and yet maintained ftiffely by a great many, icate the courfe of the fucceeOke Apple faith Gereid) there breedeth thrce {mall creatures, which will prognoft in every Country) ifa Flye faith ding yeare (in every Country, for the Gall or the Oke Apple doth grow I thinke g Worme be foundin the Maitthiolus it prelageth Warre,ifan Ant faith Gerard, plenty ofgraine: if a creepin like a magotfaith Gerard,a murraine Gall faith Afatthiole-, ix forerelleth fcarfity of victuals: ifa white worme mortality : but leaft I grow too of beafts and catt'e : butifa Spider fay they both,there will follow a peftilence or no further, bur leave it to evepafie , lirtle pertinent to this cur Hiftory of Herbes, I mutt AS EXER tedious in this difcourfé Oke grape doth binde all fluxes, s. ry manashis minde is affe@ed.and to God the Judge of all mens affeétion The Oke Apple, efpecially by Encelixe, whether of blood or humours, and preferred by fome, before either Gall ot feldomeufed, but thofe who is the firft that I know hath writenofit, Moft of the reft of thefe Excreffences are the famequality ofbinding that the Gall or Oke Apple hath. Thered graine that is found on the that are,have in any medicine,by any that Ihave Okes in Polonia, and-other places,is altogether ufedby the Dyers,butnot ufed read or heard. The Place and Time, The firlt growethvéry rarely on Okes with us, but upon fundry other as Well timber as fruite trees, plentifully in Woods, Groves, andthe like, in all the Land, but Cuapr. ILL, Vifcum. Miflellto, thac thought za iEcaufethe beft Miffellto groweth upon Okés fometimes,but more ufually on other trees,{ ‘ ; : be ¢| goodto entreate hereof next unto the Gall, and the other excreffences of the Oke,yet ina Chap- +4) ter by it felfe, notonelyfor the caufes before alledged, but for that there are fomevarieties found i ) XO) herein. i 1. Uifeum vilgare. The ordinary Miffelto. Miflelitorifeth up from the branch or arme of thetree whereon it growethwitha wooddy ftemme, parting it felfe into fundry branches,and they{preading againe into manyother {maller twigges, enterlacing themfelves fevat every joynt or knot one within another,very muchcovered with a grayifh greene barke,having two leaves ard the end: and atthe end likewife, whi ;ewhat long and narrow, {mall at the bortome but broadertow at the knots or joynts.£ che boughes and branches, grow {mall yellowith fowers, which turne into fall round white tran{parent berries,three or foure together, full ofa glutinous moilture, with a blackih feede in every of them, which wasnever yet knowne to {pring,being put inzo the ground or any where elfe to grow. (Cemerarius maketh mention of one fort hereof,that had many more berries growing together ata knot, then the former, batnotto differ in any thing elfe. Cinufius and Bellonixs have each of them recorded in their writings, to have found Miffellto growing on Olive thing,but trees in fundry places, both in Spaixe and in Turkic, that bore red berr iesmot varying much in any other it maketh the trees barren that hath it growing on them, ; . 2, Uifcum indicum, ‘The Miffelto of India; on their Thé Indian trees Excreffence (which for wantof a fitter name was called Miffellto becaufe ic groweth or foure with ftalkes trees) dothas it were runne or creepe upon the boughes,fhooting up fandry whitith greenc five joynts thereon, like ro thofe of Graffes,but withoutany leafe at them,faving at the very toppe, where growon eth one largeleafe like the Miffellto leafe, but twice as great thicke and flefhy as it, with fixe roundcircles thefe leaves rifeth either fide of the middle ribbe coward the npper end: from the bottome likewile of each of upa long {piked headof{mall leavesas it were, which abide greene all Winter long. SOE 3. Vifcum Pernviannm. Miflellto of Per#. fprigges This other ftrange plantalfo, that isreferredtothe Miffellto groweth like a buh of {mall ruthliké the branch to faftened is with broad {cales foulded one over another at the bottome,as broad as ones hand,whereit wherconit groweth, with {mall rootes like thofe of Onions butending in {mall points,all which doe encompaffe tuft or care of Oates, an hollow reddithftriped branched ftalke,two or three cubits high,reprefentiug the chaffie for the fathion, but 4/clepias for che bignef{c,and the filken downe with fmallfeede therein like Cone, of a falac tifhunplcafanttalte like Nicer,perhaps taken from the Sea aire it feeleth, é with manyberries in Germany,cc. the other two grow in the Welt Indies, from whence onely fome branchor other was brought by a friend, Our Miffellto flowreth pring time,but the berries be not ripe untill 0 éfober; and abide on the branches i VV incer,unlefic the Blacke birds,and other birds doe devoure them, The Names, 3. Vifeum Pervianain} Miflellto of Pera. a fl4, iy It is called in Greekei£% by Dio/corides, and fois theBirdlime madethereofal- fo,and iZia by Th: ophraftus who faith alfo that in Exboea itis called Ste/s, and in Ar- cadia Hyphear : yet lib.3.c.16. ofhisHiftory, he faith that Ste/ groweth on the Northfide ofthe J/ex,snd Hyphesr on the South, & fo they differed one from another in fome thing, which he hath no where exprelt,in Larine Us/cws and Vif/cum, and fo alfo the Birdlime made of the berries , as areall thefe forts called by all Writers, that have written either of the rwolaft, fince Lobe/, wich their feverail adjanctes, The Arabians call it Debach, Dabuchand Hale, the Italians Vifchio,the Spaniards Li- ago, the French Guy, the Germanes Miftel, and Eichen miftel and Vogellem, the Dutch Marentacken, and wein Exglifs Miffellto, Thereare fundry controver= fies to be decidedabout this Vi/cum, firlt whether it be prodaced from its owne feed or no, for many have held that Blacke birds eating the berryes and lying in their bellies gon thetrees the feede hath thereby beene made thefitter to grow; whiche not,and fo doth Pliny froin Theophraftus fer it downe,turdus [ibi exitinm cacat, thatthe Blacke birds voydeth that whereby ir is brought to death, but itis fince found by experience,that there isno fhew of feed in that dung; they voyde up- on the trees or elfewhere, beirig whollyaltered in their bellies before the voyding, and further that Miffellco groweth on trees from their owne fuperfluous moyftures Poet to call ic Sado? quercus,even as Galles doe, and Oke Apwhich made / ples from other fort of Okes, and have no feede of their owne, and tothis purpofe Virgilfexto e/Eneidos faiths Quale folet fyluis brumali frigore, Vifcnm Fronde virere nova,quodnon[aa feminat arbos. Theophraftus a\fofaith that the Miffellto loofeth the leaves in Winter if it grow on thofe treesthat fhed their leaves then: bur holdech them growingon ever greene trees,the reafon whercof faich he is the: tenacious humi-, dity in the one, which the other wanteth: but the experienceof our times hath fhewedthat it keepeth the leaves —aCeecce 3 i fteth |