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Show 1498 Cuar.64, Theatrum Botanicum, 5,2. 2, Laurus latifolia i Major jor (9 minor, Thegreater and the leffer Bay tree, T ripe i6 Terese 16, The Theater of Plants, Cuar.65, 1489 gainft it, which for brevity [here omit, hoping to declare chem in anotherplace. 3. Laurus Americana exborto Farmelfiano cujus ji cortex Caffie Lignee muitum a imilatur, Te fare Tata Bay trees or Caffia Lignea of tle Welt Indies, The Place and Time, ag The Bay groweth wilde naturally in divers places ofNarbone in France,Spaine,and Italy and in other warmg Countryes where it groweth very great,efpecially neere the Sea, but is wholly planted with usy. or raifed from fowing the berricssit flowreth in May, the fruite :{carfe thoroughripe either in Ofober,or November, The Names. ’ Iris called 4<omin Greeke, quafi Naeavgitod ufta valdefonet, for nothing doth morecrackle or make a noife inthe firethenit: in Latine Lawrws > muchGentilifme mightSe inferted here of Daphne, the Daughter of Lae don, whom e4polloovertooke flying fromhim, and by the implored aide of her mother earth was transformed inco a Bay, from whence taking a branch,he in honour of her,crownedhim(elfe : butunder this rugged fhell was hid a{moother kernell : for the Bay was token of prophecy, and by 4podeis fignified wifdome: that is, that wifdome doth forefee events, whenthepaffions be overruled: asalfo that chey wore a Garland of Bayes to be kept fafe from lightening and thunder : that wifedome knowethhowta avoide the judgements of God, when foolifhneffe is liable so chem,and mult undergot them, The Arabians callit Gaur or Gar, the Italiaas Lauro, the Spaniards Lanrerro,thé French Lanrijer,the Germanes Lorbeenbanns, the Dutch Laurusboon, and wethe Baytrees the berryes are called in Grecke dk ovtdts, in Latine Lauri bacce, The Vertues, Galen {aith that the Bayleaves or barke doe dry and heale very much,and the betries more then the leaves: the barke of the rooteis leffe fharpe and hor, but more bitter,and hath fome altriction withall, wherebyit is effectu. all to breake the {tone, and is good to open the obftructions ofthe Liver, Spleene,and other inward patts, as the dropfie and jaundife : the berryes are very effectuall again{t all venome, and poyfon of venemous creatures, and eS BOCs f fore women with child that have mor gone outtheir time, mult cake heed oftaking any, left they procure ana- borfement,or delivery before their time : they wonderfully helpeall cold and rheumaticke diltillations, from the braine to the eyes, lungs, or other parts, and being made into an eletuary with honey, they helpe the con« fumption,old coughes, fhortneffe of breath, and chin rheumes: theylikewife helpe the Meagrome,and mightily expell windesand provoke utine, and helpe the Ventofiti¢s of che mother, and kill the wormes : the leaves worke alfo thelike effets, and boyled in fifh broth, givea fine relli(h,bothto mea:e and broth, and helpeth to warme the ftomacke, and to canfe digeftion, withoutfeare of cafting, which taken by themifelves they often< times provoke: a bathe of the decoction ofthe leaves andberries, is fingular good bothfor women tofit in thar are troubled with the mother, or the difeafesthereof, or with the ftoppingsof their courfes,orforthe difeafes of the bladder, paines in thé bowells by winde,and (toppings of urine : a deco¢tion likewife of equall parts of Bay, berries, Cuminfeede,Hyffope, Origanum, and Euphorbiumwith fome hony, and the headbathed therewith, doth wonderfully helpe deftillationsand rheumes, and fetleththe pallateof the mouth intoits place: the oyle whichis madeof the berries, is very comfortable in all cold griefes of the joynts, nerves, arterics, ftomacke,belly or wombe, and helpeth palfies, convulfions,crampes,aches,tremblings,and numneffe in any part, wearineffe al« fo, and paines that comeby fore travelling in wet weather, or foule wayes: all gricfes and paines likewife pros N\ [_EWV?ERRP?WWUCO{Eww€EéF the {tings of Walpes,and Beés, as alfo againtt che peftilence, or otherinfectious difeafes, and therefore is put into fundry Treakles for that purpofe : they likewife procure womenscourfes, and if feven of the berries be taken by 2 woman in fore travell of child birth, ic will caufe a {peedy delivery, and expell the after birth alfo, and there- La 1, Laurus major five latifolia, The greater Bay tree. This Bay groweth with usin manyplaces. very high, fpreading armes and branchesreafonable well, cove. ted with a darke greenith barke, the leaves are fomewhat broad and long, hard, full of veines, of a darke greene colour, pointed at the ends, and {melling fomewhat {weete, but of abitter tale, and alwayes abiding on the trees, the flowers grow many together,and of a whitifh greene colour, after which come fomewhat long and round berries, witha tough blacke skinne or covering, fomewhat wrinckled, with a hard firme kernell within, Parting into two parts, the roate fpreadeth under the ground, and groweth deepealfo : the woodis firme {mooth,and white, ceeding from winde, either in the head,(tomacke,backe,belly or wombe, byannoynting the parts affected there- with, and by putting fomeof the oyle, or boyling the berries in the decoétions for glifters, doth breake wind and eafe the rorments of the belly by the winde chollike wonderfully: it helpech alfo the painesin the cares, cither fomeof the oyle dropped thereinto, or a decoétion of the berries being made to receive the warme fumes thereof into the eares by a funnell ; che faid oyle taketh away the markes of the skinne and flefh, by bruifes, falls, Sc. and diffolveth the congealed blood in them: it alfo helpeth the itch, fcabs,and wheales in the skinne, , 2, Lavrus minor. The lefler Bay tree, The leffer Baytree groweth notfo high, and doth runne moreinto fuckers or fhootes, whereon grow{maller thinner, and longer leaves then of the former, yet {melling well alfo, thereft of the parts doe nor vary muc: 1, but that the berryes be fmaller and rounder. Cuarp. LXY. Arbutus & Adrachne, The Strawbérry treés. 3+ Laurus Americana cujws cortex Caffiz lignee multum affimilatur, The ftrangeIndian Baytree,or Cajfia Lignea of the Welt Indies, T muft needs ad joyne chis ftrange Indian Bay tree, bothfor the rarity of Tobias Aldinws bis defcription of (ome plants that grew in Cardinall and excellency thereof, which I take out Farnefius his Gardenat Keme, and crew from the berries were brought fromthe Welt Indies,in that Garden of the Cardinall 1620. Which were blacke rugged, like Bay berries, and fomewhat long like Ollives, pointed at the end, and divers growing together ina Punch, each upona (hort footeltalke, it fhortly grew intoa great height and bigneffe, theleaves were very like unto Bayleaves,or rather in a meane betweenethe great Kings Bay (whichT rake to be that we call Lawrocera{#s ) andthe commonBay or the Citron tree, which being chewed, atthe firft are fomewhat bitter, but after witha {weetneffe have fome maccilaginou(nefle or clammyneficinthem, yet fmelling like the common Bay whofe footeftalke isthicker then of them, and the branches {maller and finer : but faith it is wonderfull tofeele fo muchvifcide and tough clamminefie in them, which made a doubt with fome were not the tree of Cinamon, or of Caffia or Canell, and that not by anylight learned Herbar fts, whether ir conjecture, for Garxias ab orta faith the leaves of the Canell tree are of the colour of Bayleaves, but neere the forme of the Citron tree leaves, andall Authours writing of the trees of Cinamon or Cavell, fay the leaves are like Bay leaves: the fruite alfo by Garzias of the Canell,is blacke and round,of the bignefle of an H afell nut andlike an Ollive. Gomara, Carate and Ciesa fay that the fruite growethin clufters or bunches, Acoffa thar the fruite isblacke and fhining, when it is ripe,the maccilaginons tafte alfo in this plant, feemeth to be in that fort of true Caffialignea, yea the belt Cafia with Diofcorides is called Daphnitis Canell is thought with us to be the which isa word derived from Daphne whichis a Bay : but faith he, I will thew you my opinion, that wehaveno trie Cinamon, although I have read of many that aiticme our Ganell tobe the true Cinamon of the Auncients, yet Ihave faithhe, marty reafons aguint hea) Hele two trees doe both goe under one Englifoname of the Strawberry tree, becaufe they are foliké o8 one unto another, both in their growth,leafe,and frnite, that one not very well acquainted with 244 them, may{oone miltake one for another, and therefore | have chought good to put themboth inte b4 onc Chapter. j 1, Arbutus, The Strawberrytree with dentedleaves, This Strawberry tree (in fome places,as in Mount Athos,as Bellonireporteth, groweth tobe atree of very great heighth and bignesle) in moit ocher places it groweth bur low, or rather like unto a fhrub tree then of any bigneffe, having a rugged barke on the body, and {moothor red on the young branches,and having many fuck~ ers rifing fromthe rootes, withfaire freth greene leaves, fet without order thereon, very like unto Bay leaves, but thicker, fhorter,and finely dented about the edges, and without anyfent,asthe Bay leaveshave, witha reddith middle rib in fome places,but nor ufually fo with us, and abiding on the butheslike the Bay : at the endsof the branches come forth long {talkes, with veryfine white flowers ferthicke together all the lenyth of them whofe brimmes area little red or blafh colour, formed like untolittle bottles, or the flowers of Lilly convally, which being paft,thererife in their places, {everall round berryes, greene arthefirlt, yellowith afterwards, and of an excellent reddifh colour, and fomewhat hoary withall being full ripe, like unto a Strawberry, bur’ much greater inthe natural warme Countri¢es,as great asa plumbe, but withas,and in Ireland, where they have beene found Srowing of their owneaccord,no bigger then a Rafpis berrie, and neere unto the fame,both forme and colour, tharis,like a pallide clarret Wine,of an anftere tafte, and having certaine {mall feedes within themeach of them covered with a thinnc skinne, LU ¢ 2, Adrachné |