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Show Theatrum Botanicam. CHar.gg Palma wvplgaris legitima, eh f RIBE 16. Falme fpathacumfructa eg flovibus, 5 The ordinary = and rruc Dace tree, o Bred the an > i The blooming and fruice e ofof the Dace.tree, Tree 16, Lhe theater of Plants. bat the fruite is nothing fo good asin Cyprus andche Levant. Citae.100, 1547 Theother two forts grow, the firlt in Sicilia, Candy,exc. the other in Spaine: they flower in Aprill,and are ripe in Novemberor later. The Names, Z The Date tree iscalled in Greeke iv: Phenix, in Latine Palma, and the fruite Adxwact x govines Palmule and Datlyli ; the fheath or skin which enclofeth the flowers,is called ©'A2ny Hlate,and rise Sparha, and Lome thinke one kinde of Date is called Palma Elate: the belt fort of Datesare called Caryote and Phenicobalantes which were alfo calledegie, becaufe they were fitcelt for the dyet of Kings, Thebanes were the leane dry Dates, that had little fubftance in them: the ancient Writers have fecdowne many things of Dates, that there is male and femalc,and that they both bearefruite,{o that they be within the fight one of another, or elfe they will not beare, but I pray you account this among thereft of their fables, The i¢condis called xapajie:s by Lhecphraltus, and Chameripbes in Latine by Lobel, Lugduenfis, and Palma humilis aifoby Matrhiolus, and Palmitce or Palmito by the vulgar in /taly,Spaine, exc, the Greekes alfo call that head that is ufed to be eaén tear, che Italians and Spaniards Cofaglioni, The other is called by Lugdunenfis Chamerops Pliny, The Arabian call the Date tree Machla, and Nachal,and the fruite Tamar, the Italians Palma the tree, and Dattoli the fivire, the Spaniaras Palmeira, and Tamara@and Dazrtiles the fruite,the French Palmier, and Dattier aod Palmes, and Daéles: the Germanes Dattelbanm,and Dattelz,the Dutch Dayeboom, and Dayes, and we in Exglifh Dare tree; and Dates, The Vertues, The unripe Dates are very harfh and binding , and theripe alfo while they are fieth more then when theyaré dry, ftaying wemens courfes,vomittings,andithe laske of the belly, and [fay alfo the bleeding andfailing downe of the fundament and piles, beingtakenin red wine: if they be ufed thatare dry, they helpe thehoarfenefle and rotighneffe of the throate, the fharpe cotigh by reafon of fharpe rheumefalling onthe breaft and lungs. thé decoction of ther taken, alayeth the force of hot agues,and ftayeth {pitrings of blood, the paines in the ftomacke and bowels, becanfe ofa flux, and boyledin old hydromel, thacis, mede or honyed water, and taken doth re- freththefpirits : ufedlikewifein brothes or meates they doe the like,and fomewhat provoke unto* enery, but being caken too often,or too liberallysthey breed head ach,and 4 kinde ofperturbation of the braine, like unto drunkenneffe, and the leprofie alfoas itis aid, the fheath out of whichthe flowers breake,is very aflringent,and fo are the leaves alfoin the cafes aforefaid: the deco¢tion thereof maketh the haire blacke, being often ufed, and ftayethfretting ulcers, and helpeth the weakenefle and paines in the backe, inthe bladder; and in the bowels : the Date flones being burned and wathed fervethin ftead of Spodium, tobindeandreftraine the Auent humours into the eyes, and to confume the pinne and web in them, and to dry up puthes being ufed with Spik nard,it {tay eth the falling of the haire from the eyebrowes : being mingled with wine and ufed, ithelpsth any excreflences out of the flefh, as wennes and fuchlike, and btingethfoule ulcers tocicarrifing: Diaphesicon, which isthe EIcGuary made of Dates, purgeth choller andflegme veryeffectually, fo it be taken with goodcaution and advife, and that from two drammesunrofixe in white wine, or a decection of Sene,as fhall be thought fit, and is conveniently given in compound and long agues, and in thofe difeafes chat are bred of raw humours, as in the chollicke 2 lua humilis five Clameriphes. 2. Palwa humilis five Cha The wild or low Palme,called the Palmito trece 3, palma Chatmerops Plinif five Chameriphes /psnofs foliis, ‘ Thethorny Palio, the paines ofthe backe and.mother. “Lhe head ofthe Dates, or Date brainés, is very plcafant and {avoury to the talte, and is muchufed where they gtow tobe eaten witha little Pepper and fale: ofthe leaves Of the Palmise they ufe to make Broomesto fweepe the houfe,which lafta longtime ; of them likewife they make Mats, and Baskets. Cuar YG Acacia five Spina Agyptia, The Egiptianthorne or binding8 Beare tice, I 5) § My We BS\ nh es hath made mention of two forts of Acacia, the one of Egipt, andthe other of Cappadocia; land 7 mntws > Theophrajtus allo {peaketh of two forts, blacke and white: that of Egipt is ,eafonabut of that fore of Pontus, there is fome controverfie, among Writeis, fometa- ¢ it,and others denying it robeir, the differences of Taeophrastus forts are one» ly expreffed in the wood, asitislikely, the white torot quickely,and the blacke to be long lafling and of very goodu'e to manypurpofes, ‘Diofcorides having detcrjbed them. I fhall therefore here fhew youthem, and with themadjoyne another fort of Acacia brought ont of the Welt Indies; mentioned by Aldinus in his Farnefian garden. 1, Acacia Spina 7gyptiaveras The trae Acacia,that is Egiptian thorne or binding Beane trée. The Egipt ax Thorne groweth ini fome places to bea great tree, and rather crooked then{traight orrifing high, covered witha blackith barke, fpreading abroad great armes and branches, full of fharge thornes, with many Winged leaves ‘et on bothfides of them, that is,with foure winges of leaves ona fide, made of fandry finall ones, fet oppofite on a middle rib, without any odde oneat the end, althoughit be fo exprefled, Bellonius faith that he counted 350. of rhofe {mall leaves, that were upon the whole branch, and yet all of them might but cover his thumbe: the flowers grow amc anches, like flockes of wooll, of awhitifh yellow colour, where after come fomewhat largeanc waskes, like unto the Lupine or flat beane cods, blacke when they ateripe; andbunched forth againtt the places where the {eedes lye,in fome three or foure, and in fome more, each as bigge asa {mall wild Beane,round, and of a grayih or afh-colour, almoft fhining:the tree abideth alwayes withgreene leaves thereon, and yceldeth of it owne accord a white gummne in {mall curled peeces like great wormes, and greater round peeces if it be wounded. : ; 2- Acacia Americana Farnefcena, The Welt Indian Acacia or binding Beane tree. ©This Indian Acacia groweth like unco the Hafell nur tree faith Aldinws, with many {temmesif they be not cut awaythat ic mayrife robea tree, with {lender and flexible branches, covered with a {mooththinnebarke, like the Hafell, the young ones being of a greenifh afh-colour onthe Northfide, but thar next the Sunne morepale, fpotted with white {pors +. the leaves hereon are variable, which although they be all winged, yet fome have bur foure leaves ona fide, fome haze five, fixe, (even, or eight, with an odde one at the end, each paire {ec oppofite,and Qqqqqq2 like |