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Show 1492 Theatrum Botanicam. Cuar.67, Tripe 16, The Vérginias Mulberry groweth quickely with ustobeavery great tree, {préading many armes and branchés, whereon growfaire greatleaves very like the laft: the fruite or berry is longer and redder thanthe fr whenitis ripe,and very pleafantalfo. The Place and Time. The two formerforts are nourfed up as it werein Woods or great Orchards, inthe Levant Countries to nourifhtheir filke Wermes, where they keepe abundance, and may peradventure be maturall in fome ofthofe places;they are plentifullyalfononrfed upin Italy for the {ame purpofe: but thelalt as the name importeth came fromVirginia, where itgroweth hugely, with great {tore of great leaves and fmall ftore of fruite, but inthe feafon with the other,whichis in J#/y and Agahsyet the Icaves ofthem all appeare the laft of all othertrees, The T rise 16. The Theater ofPlants. Cuar.68, ated 3. Morus Virginiana, The Virginian Mulbérry. Names. Iris called in Greeké ogee and ovxeav@- Morea &- Sycaminos, in Latine AZorus 5 fomé call the fick Morus ruc bra,and others nigra, inour fhoppes AZorus cel(a quafsexcelfa, asadiftinttion betweeneit andthe bramble Ra= us, whofe berryes are called alfo Mora; but batsis added to know itby , the white is called ALorss alba G caxdida by all: Bellonsus faith that the French doe falfely call it Sycomorns, but we fhall (hew you the true Sycomorus byandby, The Arabians callit Tut and Thwt, the Italians Moro, the Spaniards Adoras del Moral, the French Menrier and Menre,the Germanes Manlberbanmand Maulbeer, the Dutch Moverbe/cemboom, and wein Englife Mulberry, and Mulberry tree. The Vertnes, The Mulberry is of different parts,the ripe berryes being by réafon of their {weetéeneffe and flippery moifture; opening the belly, and the unripe bindingit, efpecially when they are dryed, and are then good to {tay fluxes and laskes,and the abundance of womens courfes : butthe barke of the roote hath a {tronger purging quality, anda bitterne {fe withall, wherebyit is able to kill the broad wormes in the body of menor children: the leaves and yoting tender topp<s have a middle or temperate facnity : the ripeberries if they be takenbetore meate, doe makepaflage for the reft ro follow, butif after meate, and paffe not quickely away,they corrupt in the flomacke and draw the reft on to putrefaCtion with them, otherwife they troublelittle : the juyce, or the fyrope made of the juyce of the berryes, helpeth all inflammations and foresin the mouth or throate, and the Vowla or pallate when itis fallen downe: the juyceof the leaves isa remedy againft the biting ofthe {pider Phalangium, or any other Serpent, and for thofe that havetaken Aconite, the leaves beaten with Vinegar is goodto lay on any place that isburnt with fire: the leaves of the Vine,of the earely Figge,and of the Mulberry, boyled in raine wateris good to wafh the hair€,to cleare and to give it afairecolour: adecoétion madeof the bake and léavesis good to wath the mouth and teeth whentheyake : ifthe roote bea little flit or cat and a {mall hole madeinthe ground next thereunto,in the harvelt timeit will give outa certaine juice, which being hardned; the next day is of good ufe tohelpe the toothache, and todiffolve knots,and purge the belly : the leaves of Mulberries are faid to ftay bleeding in any place of thebody, whether ic beat the mouth or noftrils, or the bleeding of the piles, or ofa wound, being bound untothe places : a branch of the tree taken when the Mooneisat the full, and bound tothe writ ofa womans arme whofe courfes come downe too abundantly, dothftay them in a fhort fpace, theleaves in Cypr#s, Caria, Rhodes, and other the places necre 1,2. Sycomorus froe Ficus Bgypria @Cypria, them: they have not beene brought into /taly that canlearnes their Timeis expreffed in their defcriptions, ‘The Egyptianand Sy:an MulberryFiggetrce, The Names. Thefirft is called:in Greeke «x?p10¢@- and ovxdusv@- a}. foby fome, ‘but notrightly as Dio/eorides faith; in Lae tine alfo Sycomorus, and Ficus Egyptia, the Egiptian fig, i XZ SS rs | Fy and isthe true Sycomoretree, and Theophrastus calleth it Morus -4igyptia, fo called as Galen faith, from the likeneffe of the tree and thefrnite untathe Mulberry,and the Figge. Befonius faith the Egiptians now adayes call it Ficws Pharaont in their language, and fome Giumets as the Arabians doe, the otheris called by Theophraftius Ficus Cypria in Creta, Matthiolus callethit Sycomorefimilia, Cordus on Diofcorides, Sycomorus in Cypro, and Lugdunenfis from Raswolfins Ficus Egyp- tia Diofcoridis ,Sycomorus Grecornm, and Adumeitz of the Arabians, The Uertues, Thefruite of the Sycomore trees agree well in the belly, and maketh ic foluble, but is troublefome in the ftomacke, by the overmuch moifture, and giveth bur litle nourifhment tothe body: the milke thacis taKen fromthe tree, by wounding it gently, and afterwards dryed and made into Trochifces, and kept in an earthen pot, hatha property to mollifie hard tumours, to foderor clofe together the lippes of greene wounds, the frnite it {elfe being laid plaifterwife, worketh after the fame manner : the {aid dryed milkeis good againtt venemouscreatures andthe plague, the fame alfo eafeth the paines inthe head and eares;.and is drunke by them that are fplencticke. Cap. LXVIIL, laid to fteepe in urine doe take away the haires from skins, Ficus. The Figge tree, Guar. Sycomorus, SsiveSS Hereare divers forts of trees that are called Figge trees, very much differing in kinde one ftomanoSMgy ther, I will therefore in this Chapter onely fhew you the forts of our ordinary eating Figges that Ngo grow in Ewrope, and afterwardsofthe relt,chat have not beene declared before. LXVII, The true Sycomore or Mulberry Figge. a Here are wo forts ofthis Sycomoretree,the one bearingfinite outof the body, and greater armes of | thetree onely,the ocher uponftalkes without leaves. 4 1, Sycomorus five Ficus Zgyptia, The Sycomoreof Egipt, This Sycomore growethto bes very great tree,bigger then the Mulberry tree, with great armes and branches,and thereonfull of round and fomewhat long leaves pointed ar the ends, and dented about the edges, very like the round leaves of the Mulberry tree, but harder and rougherlike Figge leaves, this beareth {mall figs or fruite, and no flower,and that differing from all other trees, for ir thrufteth them forth from out of the very trunke or body it felfe onely, and the elder branches next to the body, and no where elfe, and are very like unto white or wilde Figges, and of che fame bigneffe, but much fweeter, and without any kernels therein, the whole tree and every part aboundeth with milke, ifthe barke be but gently wounded, for ifdeepe it giveth no milkeatall, which makethit to beare three or foure timesevery yeare, new rifing out of the places wherethe old grew (but whereas Theephraftut and Diofcorides fay, tharthe fruite ripencth not, unleffe they be feratched with iron {cratchers,and that within foure daies after they will be ripe, theufe in thefe dayes, where they grow is, chat they doe afcend the trees,and with {mall knives,cuc a {mall peece from the head of every fig, while they are greene,and after the poorer fort of people eate them. The wood hereof is {ollid, hard and blacke, and abiding freth,andas if it were {till greene long after icisfelled, neither willbecome dry, unleffe it be kept under water, and therefore is fitteft to makepiles in Marfhes,or waters, P 2. Sycomorus alterafew Ficus Cypria. Another Sycomoreor Figge of Cyprus. This other Sycomore groweth to be as great as a Plummetree,or white Poplar tree, whofe armeés and branches are ftored with broad and fomewhat roundleaves, like unto the Elme (which made Diofcorides fay it was an Elme) but indeed very like unto the former: this alfobeareth fuch like fruite like Figges but fuller, even no bigger then plummes which rife both from the body,and the greater armes, but not immediately out of them, as in the former, but oncertaine ftalkes in branches, whichrife by themfelves, without any leaves with them,and areas {weete as figges, and bears alfo foure times every yeare, but mot unleffe they be flit,that the milke in them may comeforth, The Placeand Time, The firit groweth chiefly inprin Syria alfo,and Arabia, and othér thé places néere thereunto : che other si a : i wn 1. Ficus fativa five vulgaris. The ordinary Figge tree. This ordinary Figge in our Country in fomeplaces, I have feene as great almoft, and as much fpreadasan Appletree, witha grayifh ragged barke on the body, and elder boughes,and greene on the younger, whichare hollow or pithy inthe middle, the leaves grow fingle onthe branches, being long andlarge, thicke, rough,and of fad a green colour onthe upperfide,and whitifh underneath, divided into three, but uluallyinto five parts, yeelding a fharpe bitter, and almoft exulcerating milke when they are broken, as che tranches and the Figges alfo will doe wheathey are greene, the fruite breaketh out fromthe branches withokt any flower, and are both of fundry celours, of feverall fizes, and ripening at contrary times ofthe yeare, as alfo wich thicker or thinner skins that coverthem, thefé that’are moft ordinary are white, and of areafonable bignefle, 2, Caprificus, The wilde Fiagetree, at This Figgetree differeth not fromthe former butin growing not fogreat, and that thefinite is (mall and hard, never ripening on the trees, but falling off unripe and are nothing fo {weete or pleafant as the manured, that is ripeand mellow,orfoft, but like it while itis greene andhard, 3. Ficus nigra five precox. The blew Figge carely ripe. This tree alfo differeth not in the growing from the former, but rifeth not to thatgreatneffe, the fruiteis alfo like the former, and of the fame fize and bignefle in Spaine and other places, buc of adarke purple blackith colour, withancye of blewas it werecaft overthem, and blackifh red throughout, being not fully fo lufhions fwecte as the ordinary white Figge is: this Figge tree beareth twice in the yeare in the warme Countries, that is, inthe Spring about 4pril, and afterwards in the Autumne when the other are ripe : thofe in the Spring doe feldomeripen kindely, for want of the heate of the Sunne, and byreafon of the moiture of the feafon, yer are they very delicious,fo that they quickely both putrifie if they be kept long, and not artificially dryed, but quickely corruptalfo in their {temackes that eate them, and therefore none dareth eafe them, but they mult drinke fome Wineafter hem, to helpe to digeft them, for if they paffe not quickely out of the ftomacke, but putrifie therein, they put them in danger to turne them into feaver + and this is that kinde of greatblacke Figge, that we haye for the beft kinde growing with us, which is ufually planted again{t a wall,and yet will not ripen the fruice with us,untill Asguf, and then will be fo mellow and foft, and moift that they will beready to fall abone their fingers that handle chem, 4. Chameficws. The dwarfe Figgetree. The dwarfe Figet tree growetli not much higher with us then to a mans fhoulders, with lender branches ote ~ , 7 ing |