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Show 1490 Cnar.6s, ~ Lheatram Peace 5. Ai butus, The Strawberry cree with dented leaves, Botanicum. Trisr6 , — 2, Adrachae. Tha Swawberry tree with'fmdorh leaves, | Taipei, The Theater ofPlants. Cuar.66, me 1491 4 ———< te eines themboththe Straw berrytree, but with the feverall diftin&tions that I givethem in their ticles : yer it hath come tous fromi Ireland, by the namé ofthe Cane Apple, with as great jadgement:andreafon as many ocher vulgar namesare, The Vertues, ' Diofcorides and Galen {ay of the Arbutus that it is troublefome tethe ftomacke, and breedeth head ache, and therefore adviferh thofe that have any paine in the head to forbeare the eating of thar fruite, Amatus Lufitanus firlt ferteth itdowne, that the deftilled water of the flowers and leaves of the Arbutus (but dZattbiolusaddeth the os de Corde cervito be mixed therewithin pousher) isa foveraigne remedy and helpe again{t the pettilence, and all other venometobe given prefently upon thefirit complaining of the gricfe,it is altringent or binding, and therefore may well ferve againit fuxeszthe properties of the other are not declared, Cuar, LX VI. Morus, The Mulberry treé, csSSBe Here aré two ofthree forts of Mulberries as Ihave elfewheré fhewed, yet I muft thew youthem % SX) herealfa. 1, Morus nigra vulgar. The commonblacke Mulberrytree, This groweth if it be firffcred yery great and tall, otherwife ic will be led on Arbours, orag you will have it, che body being grear, and both it and the greater armes covered with ony ke ragged barke, the youngerboughes and branches being {moother, whereon aah broa l leaves fet, pointed at the end,dented about the edges, and fometimesgafhedin onthe edges, ts inga Vv ine leafe, the bloomings or flowers are fhort downie catkins, after whichfollow the fruite ie Teele fet together if greene at the firlt,red afterwards, and fomewhat har{he or fowre, burblacke when t 7 are a ripe fweetith juyce,that will dye the fingers and mouth of them that gather and eare them: wherein lye dis vers {mall feed, the roote groweth not dec pe, but {preadeth farre,being ofa yellowifh colour, 2. Morw alba, The white Malberry, ‘ : The white Mulberry growethnot to thar greatneffe, but rifeth higher, more knotty and ae ioe Po fonable weil,but not {o thicke,the leaves are like the former, but not fo thicke fet on the brane ty not ee Ay handling, of a paler greene, and fomewhat longer, and more divided with longer ftalkes : the oa : = er and clofer fet together, greene and fomewhatharfh before they are ripe, but exceeding pte amo! fp yo procure loathing, whentheyare thorough ripe,and whitifh,with the like {cede as is inthe former: the roote likewife is yellow but paler, 1, Morus Rigra vulgaris, iu. 2, Adrachne, The Strawberry trée wich {moothleaves: " This other Strawberrytree groweth lowand never feene fo high as the former ; but fo like thereunto that it is difcerned ftomit onely by thefe markes; the barke of the tree and branches and redder by much, both in young and old branches like unto Corrall, is not rough or rugged,bat {mooth yer Theopbraftefaith ichatha white barke, which it is like he meancthof the under or new barke that commeth after the old falleth awayin Summer, but the Aréueus doth not fox the leaves arefo like unto Bay leaves,be ing alfo {moothand not dentedon the ed ges that they are onely diftinguithed from them bythe {mell, thefe having no fent, and the berries hereof are of a darker red colour,and fomewhat more fweete, the other being a little auftere or harth, and fo tafting on the : tonguein the eating. The Place and Time. Both thefe forts growin che warme Eafterne Countryes abundantly asalfo in Greece, andthe Ifles of the diterranean Seas,e{pecially in Candy, onthe hills,and among the Rockes, but the firlt efpecially in Italy, S and fome parts of France, and hath beene of late dayes foundin the Welt part of Jreland, of areafonable bi fife fora tree, but with fmallerfruite: ic flowreth not onely in Txly, in the warme Countries,but at other ci of the yeare alfo,and the frujte {carfe ripeneth in a whole yeare, for | have feene a freth branch,that was brought me wich frefh {prang fowers andripefruire thereon likewife,fothat itis ufually feerte both with flowers and frniteatonce, The ddrachne is every third yeare {poyledof the outer barke,and regaineth it quickely, and keepeth the fame time withthe other. : ; The Names. The firlt is called in Greeke xéuaess Comarus, and the fruitefoalfoby fome, or wudixvroy Afemecylon, as Dio Scorides,Gatensand others fay, in Latine Arowens o 7 nedo, and by Ovid Frava montana; {ome have thought that the Arbutus of Diofcorides, and Theophrafus were differing plants, becaufe their defer iptions were{o divers, by the judgement ofthe beft theyare both one, the otheris called in Greeke pies have ay/edx, but becaule Adrachne,is the herbe Portalaca,Purflaine, cdex;on, yerthe moft Greeke cowhichfome to diltinguith would call this Portulaca arbor, but P 4iny findeth the fault, and therefore calleth it Adrachne and Petslaca arbor, fince which Gaxaand others have followed:him therein : but the Grecians generally nowadayes, as wellasthole in Candy, callit Adrachla,as Honorivs Bellus faith: all our moderne Writers callthem, bythe fame names, andno other thenare here fer downe, except Gaslandixus in Papyro, who attributeth all thefe names to one plant Omaram, Conarum, Arbutus Vnede, And itis obferved that Galen faith in 2ra/y among the vulgar, Epimelss was called by the name ofUnedo, peradventure becanfethe howersof Epimelis ave very like to thofe of Arbutus or Vuedo, when as Epimelis is defined by himfelfe to be another plant, fortsof Mepilus. differing both from Aréatus, Z nedo, orany of Diefcerides The Arabians call the Arbutus Hatiladib the fealians Albatro,the Spaniards AMadronho A€adromeiro, the French Arbonfier,the Pxtchasnot knowneto them have ne name that I can finde, and wec them The common blacke Mulberry tree. Th Thew white Mulberry) tree, lb, The 1 Hk f i it | i! |
