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Show eae Theatram Botanicum. Trise 16, 4. Limonera dulcis, Sweete Limoones or Limerones. Inthefruit of this tree which the Spaniards as Clu/iue faith call Limsones del Emperader is the gréareft difference from thelaft,which is {maller thenit, but twice as big as a great Lemmon,of a deeper yellow coloured barke;and thinner by much,beingfull of juyce,but {weete and pleafant and maybe familiarly eaten, with Malus Medica vel Cinria, the rinde and all, Trepe 16. The Theater of Planis. ‘Cuar The Pomecitron tree, 5. Limonera acida, Sowre Limoones,or Limerones. This fowre Limooneis verylike this laft, but fomewhat bigger, more yellowrinded, and fomewhat rugged, the juyce whereof is more fowerthenit,yetlefler then of a Lemmon. LXXVI, Limonia Malu, The Lemmontree, F Lemmons alfa ther€ are divers forts, fome greater, fome fmaller, fome with thicker, and more rugged rindes,others with fmoother, fome witha very fharpe andtart jayce,others with a milder. 1. Malus Limonia acida valgars, 6. Limenera multiformis, Changeable Limoones or Limerones, The fruite hereof is wholly neere unto a flefh colout,and of divers formes, {ome being of one j ia The ordinary Lemmontree. 2 The Lemmontree groweth ufually great and high with greatarmes and flender branches ar= med with long greenith thornes,the leaves arc long and verylike unto Bay tree leaves, but den= ted about the edges, orlike unto the Citron leaves bat lefler, and full of holes like unto them alfo; the and fome ofanotherfafhion,not conftant in any; LiwoniaMalas. The Lemmon tree: flowers grow after the fame manner as the former; batate wholly white and as {weete: the fruite the Spaniardscall it Limones de figuras, The Place and Time, that followeth is fomewhat long and round, with All thefe forts of Citrons grow in Spaixe,with apaler yellowrinde then in any of thofe beforé, fomewhat rugged or uneven, and not fo fmoothas in other forte,and fomewhatthicker alfo,the juyce whereof within isalmoft as fharpe as the next, but yet may bedifcernedto have the tafte as it were but of an hedgefrnite,and firch like feede as the Ci- thofethat are curious, to nourfeup rare fruites, but gained from fundry places abroad; and the lait from the fortunate Iffands. Their timeis withouttime, evenall the yeare throughout, flowring and bearingfruite, The Names. tronamongit, but {maller and fomewhat longer, if it be heedefully marked, though they may feeme ‘The firtand great Pomecitron, is called in Greeke wréa undiuiichat is, ALalus medica, Theo~ bothalike. phraftvs faith lib.a. c.4. that it came firlt from S wT : TX j CDE PREG ging 2. Malus Limonia acida cortice tenwi, Media and Perfis, and therefore was called Afa- Thethin rinded fower Lemmon. There isno-difference in the treé of this, from the former, norinthefruite, but that itis a litrle bigger, therinde of a fine pale yellow colour, {moother then the other, and much thinner alfo, tam Medicwm and Perficum, and fome have cal- led it Adalums Affyrium, others Malum Citrinm Or Citrenms, as alfo Oedromcla, and Citromela, and Citrangula: fomealfo call it Citris arbor, and fome Cedrus Theophrafti G Diofcoridis, and fome Poncires quafi Pomacitria. And the {écondis called by (/nfus Limonera,as he faith thé wholly replenifhed with a moft delicate fharpe Spaniards {o call the treé, and the fruite Limones, as they doethe reft that follow, with thelr otherfeverall depo. minations,becanfe both tree and fruite differ from thefir(t or true Citron, which theycall Cidras, the Italians Cedri,and Citroni, the French Citrons, the Gerusanes Citrimepffell, the Dutch Gitreen, and Citreenboow, and wein Englifo the Citron, or Pomecitrontreeor fruite, The Vertues, All the parts of this fruite both the outer and inner rinde, both juycé and feed are ofexcellentufe,and of contraryeffects one unto another, as fomehotand dry, otherscold anddry: the outer yellow rinde is very fweere in{mell, very aromaticall and bitcerintalte : and dryed isa very foveraigne cordiall for the heart: andan excellent antidote againft venomeand poyfon, againft rhe plague or any other infeGtion: it warmeth and come forteth acold or windy Romacke, mightily diflolying the winde, and difperfing raw cold and undigefted humourstherein, or inthe bowels: being chewed inthe mouth it amendeth an evill breath, and canfetha good one : italfo helpeth digeftion, and is good again{t melancholly : thefe onter rindes being preferved with Sugar, are ufed as a janket,more then in any phyficall manner, yet are they often ufed in cordiall cleétuaries, preferya- tives again{t infeCtion and melancholly,and otherthe difeafes aforefaid, Italfohelpeth to loofen the body, and therefore there is a folitive eleCtuary made thereof called Elenarinm de Citro folutivum, to evacuate the bodyes, or cold flegmaticke conftitutions,and may be alfo fafely ufed where chelleris alfo mixed with flegme, The inner white rinde ofthe fruite is almoft unfavoury and without tafte, and is not ufed in any manner of phyficke, but being preferved ferveth to fort with other Suckets at banquets; the fowre juyce in che middle is cold and farre furpaffeth that of Lemonsin the effeéts, although not fo fharpe in afte : itis fingular goodin ail peftilentiall and burning feavers, toreftraine the venomeand infection, to fuppreffe the violence of choller, and hot diftemper oftheblood, andextinguih thirft, and correéteth theill difpofition of the Liver, ftirreth up an appetite, and refrefheth the over{pent andfainting fpirits; refilteth drunkennefic, and helpeth the turnings of the Braine by the hot vapoursarifing thereinto,and caufing a frenfie or wantof fleepe : the fecde is the laft to be fpoken of, but not of the leaft property, for itnot onely equalleth the barke, but furpaffethit in many‘particulars, although Galen and Avicen feeme herein to be oppofite one unto another, Galen maketh the fecde to be cold, which A4Zatthiolus would excufe with diverting his intent to the juyce; and Avicen fayingitis hot in the firlt degree,and dry inthe fecond;the barke or rinde,hotin the firft,and dry in the end of the fecond degree, the inner white fubflance being betweenethe outer barke and the inner juyce, hot and moift inthe firtt degree, and the acide juyce cold and dry in the third degree: theft {eedes are very effeGuall to preferve the heart and vitall {pirits,from the poy- fon of the Scorpion or other venemonscreatures, as alfo againft the infeGtion of the plague,or poxes,or any orher contagious difeafe,they kill the wormes inthe ftomacke,provoke womens courfes,caufe Cuar.76, cloath,orfilke Garments from Mothsand Wormes, and givathem a goodfentalfo, an aborfement,and hath adigefting quality and adrying, fit to dry up and confame moift humours, bothinwardly inthe body, and out- ‘wardly in any moilt or running ulcers and fores, and take awaythe paines that come after the biting of any ve- Pemouscreature: the whole fruite or the branches of the treeslaid in preffes, Chelts, or Wardrobes, keepeth ; cloath juyce,and thelike feedes amongit, 3- Malus Linonia acida fratka rotundo, Round Lemmons, Thetreé that beareth thefe Lemmons, isin all thingslikethelaft, bue that ic hath few or no thornesat all uponit,and the fruite having a thinne rinde like ir, is fomewhat rotinder thenie, with a {mall crowne at the head, the juyce within being as fower altogether. 4. Malus Limonia dulcis major, The greater {weete Lemmon. This Lemmonhaththis difference from the other, that itis greater then any of the former Lemmons, the rinde yellower and {mooth,and the juyce with- Init much more fweete and pleafant, that it may be €aten as an Orrenge. 5 Malus Limonia dulcis minor, The Civill Lemmon: : ' This lemmonis{o likethe beft fort of thinrinded (ower Lemimons; that it is hard by the outfide to know their difference,for it is of the famefize, bur ofa little deeper coloured rinde, and the juyce withinlike thelaft, ofa pleafanttarttalte, that may familiarly beeaten, of rather having but little fharpetaltein it, 6. Malus Limonia (yloeftris minime, The laft wilde Lemmontree. This fort ofLemmon growethwild in Syria and Egipt, Bellonius maketh mentionof italfo, that it groweth about Cairo,thatashe faith, areno bigger then Doves or Pigeons egges. The Place and Time, We have hadall thefe forts of Lemmons brought us from Spaine and the Ifands at feverall times, whereby wé have defcribed themunto youzandfor their rime it holdech equall with the former,and the other that follow that is,hold their leaves ever greene and beare bloflomes,greene and ripe fruite all the yeare through. The Names, Neitherthé tree norhis fruite asitis likely,were knowneto the ancient Greekes or Latines, but it is inthefe dayesas in formertimes called Zales Limonia, andthe fruite Limones, The Spaniards as Clufeus fhéwerh,call the tree Limera,and the fruite Limds,all other nations follow the Latine,according to their dialect, The Vertues. Both the rinde and the juyce of Lemmons doe come fomewhat neere untothe property of the Citron, though ina weaker degree,and in the wantofthe one,the other may fafely be uled to all the purpo‘€s before mentioned for the juyce, but the barkeor rinde being thinneis feldome preferved or dryed to be ufed inwardly, but yet commeth fomewhatneereit,ifany will applyit although weaker to relift poyfon, venomeorinfection, yet the pus cing |