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Show 1498 Cuar.7o, Triseié, Theatrum Botanicum. them will caufe tke urine. to betinéted likeblood it felfe: the roote groweth neither deepe nor farreas broad. : 2. Ficus Indic fpinofis minor, The'leffer prickely Indian Figge.! This leffer Figgé groweth more often with us, from leaves asfarre as I can learne,yet J have knowneit rife from the fowne {eede, and neverinto abody or ftocke like the formee, and is in all the reft as like it as may be, with out any difference but onely the greatneffe,whichin this is neither halfe fo great or thicke, orthe growth halfe fohigh, and this declaration may be fufficient ‘to defcribe it by comparing the former difcour(e herewith that I doe nor make a double repetition of one thing. 3. Cochenillefive Fici Indici grana, The Dyers graine called Cochenille. There hath beene much doubt and many variable opinions, concerning the breeding of the Cocheniile; fome taking it to be the Coccognidium verum,others to be the Chermes Arabum,* and that it differeth not from the Coce cus Baphicus of the Grecians, Fragof#s would feeme toknow morethen others, and in his third Booke and 15. Fisi ejufdem Ind ci frudiis. The fruire ofeither ofthe Indian Figgetrees. Cuar.7i, 1499 : thereddeft in fhew,andthe richetin ule ofall. And 7/sxca/a giveth the beft fort afgraine byfar, Francifers Zi- menex, writeth that this plant bringeth forth a certaine gumme,which doth temper the heate ofthe reines, and of thé urine,and that the juyce or water diftilled from itis a wonderfull remedy againft peftilentiall and chollericke feavers. The Chochenille or graine itfelfe is held to be very cordiall, and to drive infe¢tion from the heare,for itis familiarly given both to the infeéted with Plague, Small poxes, or other infectious or dingerons fickeffe, mes The Placeand Time, Boththefe forts grow in the Weft Indies, thegreater fort all the Indies over, from Florida,and the other on this fide it, where the greaterisnot found, asbeingacolder Country then that the grearercanlive init, and flowreth with us abont the end of AZay, or in June, and the fruite ripeneth mot with us kindly atall, but abidech onallthe Winter,and the next Summertoo, and yet will be greenc on the outfide, andwaterith or unfavoury; although fomewhat reddifh within, but more red — than without, and fweecealfo in the naturall places, The Names. Divers Anthours have given divers names unto thefe plants, for Maitthiolw, Dodonews, Lacnna, Lobel, Cefalpi- Chapter, faith that theyare certaine graincs that grow The Theater ofPlants. Triset6. ns and otherscall it, Ficus Indica, divers of the Indians that be Iflanderscall it 7a or Tunal, they of Mexico and thereabout Nocheli, andas I fhewed before Nechexcli Nopalli or Nopall Nochextli, and in fome places alfo Cardi, but that I thinkeis by the Spasiards,and thereupon it was called Cardats Indicus,and Ficus Indias diverfe in Pers, at the rootes of certaine {mall plants, that arelike unto the common Burnet Saxifrage, cleaving tothe rootes ofitlike wild Grapes, but is utterly erronious for Pers, his cpinionas it feemeth being taken from Aageilara, and Lacuna. whofay that there are cettaine graines found inf mé places here withus, |Z, did take ic tobe the Opuntiaof Therpbraftus and Pliny, buterronionfly, for they beth fay, itis an herbe fit and fweete to beearen, but che leaves ofthefe are not ufed tobe eaten, neitheris it an herbe of plant, naturall to any ofthe nations of Europe, Africke or Afia buta peculiar kindeof it felfe ; but Opwntia is an herbe growing natu- rally about Opsns, and is ufually eaten, and therefore this cannotbe it-but another herbe, as [have {hewedin the Chapter of Opsntia marina, amongthe Sea plants: fomealfo call it Pala arbor Pliny,as Bellonins and Anapallecs allo: Theleffer fortis called by Lobel Indornm ferruminatrix, and Opunaia Oftocollos;and by Banhinus Ficus Fndicafolio{pinofofruttu minore. The Vertues. It is faid that the Indiansufe to lay thefe leaves brnifed upon places that are put out of joynt, or the finéwesof Arteryes over ftretched, and to helpe chofe that are burften or broken to knit uptheplaces againe: the juyce of the leavesis with goodfucceffe nfed in foule ulcers or fores: The vertues ofthe graine are fer downealittlebe+ fore at the end of the declaration thereof. growing on the rootes of the Bu-net Saxifrage, whofe imer pulpe doth give a crimfon dye, and is thereforecalled Coccus radicum, that is, the roote graine: fome have taken them to be flyes, or fuch like covered with a {mall thin skin Cuar, Ficus Indicaarcnata. The arched Indian Figge tree. or cafe, and {ticking ander His admirable tree for {0 it is called by H many, groweth to be a greattree, and f tall, {preading many armesall about, and very long which by reafon of the J I thinke,- andfaith that befides the two wild forts, whereofone giveth no Pe andthe other fo prickely tharitis of nonfe, andthe tame or manured fort that beareth fruite thar is very {weere pete Ssae afte, ene white whichis efteemedthe beft, or red or purple, which dyeth ie hands oO colour, even as Mulberryes willdoe, and beingeaten col i i blooddy colour. There is faith he another fore,called by the ides NecheaslsNepali REeld tee althoughit beareth nor fuch like frnite, yer it is more accounted of, and husbanded with morecare and dilizence becaufe it beareth that precious graine Cochinille, {0 called bythe Spaniards, as a diminitive from the Pease the auncients,{o mu.h fought after,and ued by Dyers, for the excellency of the colour: This places that aretemperate plant loveth.thofe : Herrera defcribeth the manuring and ordering thereof, and de far from himin this manner: The graine Cocheniileis bred on the tree, whichis Well Indies,and new5 paine, which hath molt thicke leaves, called Tuna,in very many of the Countries of the wherebyitis encrea(ed inthofe places that arcoie yet defended from the North: tis living creature,or rather a kinde of Infect or flye, not machdif§,0ut comming neere unto funie or wall loufe, bein fomewhatlefle tk fi y i. the plant, and bred from a feed no bigger th : doe ete ho bigger then an h hand worme,anddve’(o Stwhole gests to loade theae trees, wen and Gillik che GarVincendferae rans oer aa the trees, which they fet in order and tend like their US 1em jer,anna lckexpeaway leena oherettees ete ceehen omebe ria ee € weedes,or what ¢ €may hore them + the youngerthe trees be, the more s plentifull voure the graine : and to cleare thei s from theencrea(e of thefe other forts of flyes,they ufe Foxetailes, and when they ar Behe gnWeen With great care, and kill them by cafting cold water on them, and ayia me ey eeeSiem pots: fomekill them by cafting afhesamong{t them, and afterw d : rig seats ane kere fee by fome other wayes: but itis the beft Waytokill them with id Weer by the Merchants, after divers manners,for there are foure font becel Eee eee nak ail pe ii ie 8 Seay : ; hereof: the onegiveth a colour of no great worth,as being a wilde fortand not manured : ariother is bi ea i growethalfo Afi i out care or husbandry, athirdi ee : etd acker, which of it felfe, withae together withthe Gethin leaednonercd eee a or ave fev . : : . storts hereof ee among ‘ the nee Merchants wirsbytheyknowistedPbaenhegonelcbath ae largeltgraine, CMuffeko isa gray fort,and is the mot ordinary we ave bat . fife : She ee ta hones bat the Dense G ur epee between both, in no bigger,but in goodneffe much excelleth them all, and is nor» ma hitedbirucntene ‘ the Rr ot flenderneffe andlength, bend downe rotheground, {hooting forth certaine yellowith {tringes attheirends, which as foone as they come tothe ground, doe thereinto thruft themfelvesas trongly as the firft, which againe fend forth other in branches after a while that they are well growne time the fame manner asthefirft, for they alfo in ikegrow great,and {pread their branches, whichl Wife bending downe take rooteagaine, and thus taken facceffively one after another, ontillit hath it is up a great compaffe of ground, cvena mile as or faid in compaffe, and made as it were a Grove InWood from that one firft tree, whereunder the of the dians doe fhelter them(elves from the heate and Sunne, and fo prune awaythe under boughes, branches that they make divers walkes and crofle wayes through thefe tices, leaving their branches and over head as arches to pafle under to andfro, cutting out fome looke holes as it were, to a that light and ayretoathoufand men, and more one this may be fheltered under the fhaddow of many of tree,with the Suckers thereof, among fo mother whom itis hard to finde outthe originall or like focke, the leaves on the young branches are de, upperfi unto Quince tree leaves, greene on the e and hoary white like them Spice woecew whofe Elephants are much delighted to feede, and fruite branches they cut downeto give them : the the then eroweth among the branches no bigger é end of = ones thumbe, but fafhioned like a Figgeof ATR SS, page 229. ofhis defcription ofthe Weft Indies, (hewethus the truth hereofmore exadtly then Oviedus or man other that have written thereof Mmmmmm 2 Pe the leaves of this Indian Figge : but Joannes de Lact of Antwerpe, in his fitch Booke and third Chapter. Ficus Indica Arcnata. The arched Indian Figge tree. LXXI. a blood |