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Show 15509 Cnar,101. ——— - T beatram Botanicum. sees Tris216. that are burnt with fire,being ufed with the white ofanegge: it fervethalfoforLimmerstofalten their colours for Dyers alfo in their Dying, for inke.and many otherexternall civillufes. 0 Tr 1BE16, The Tbeater of ‘Plants. “ 30 Arbor(pinofa Indiga uericatis filiquiz 5 ‘The prickly codded Indian tree, Cua P.101, 4. Sil [pmofa 0/4 trifo Inds arbor diet mle 8 ert eee a ene Cuap. CI. Arbores alice fpinofe &filiquofe Indice, Certaine other thorny Indian trees, bearing cods. §2FS23%sHavecertaine Indian Thornytreesto bringto your confideration that beare cods, whereoffome have MjQ beene entitled Acacée, but I call P/endoacecia: Another very like thereunto, called by our Colony in Uirgima,Locus: whereunto I have adjoyneda third which hath grownewithus,anda fourthcalp, edthe Coralltree, and becaufe theyare differing muchfrom thote inthe former Chaprer, Thave thonght it frto make a Chapter of them peculiarly. 1. Pfewdoacacia Americana Robini, Robinus his fal{e Acacia of America, Becanle facobus Cormatus in his Booke of Canada plants, hath entituled this tree Acacia, although with little judgement; Ihave given ita place'with another Virginia like ic, but not with the crue ones asismoft fit, The body (faith he) is {mooth, covered witha comely {moothblackifh barke, without any thornesthereon atall {preacing the armes and branches veryfarre, which while they are young are pichy withia,befet with many craell (harpethornes, flat atche bottonje, ending in a {mall tharpe point: theleaves are manyfet on bothfides ofa middle ribbe, ftom fevenor eight ,to tenne or moreon afide, and an odde one at the end, eachleafe foulding it feifedouble every evening upon Sunne fetting, and opening againe upon therifing : the flowers are white, f tlike Peafe blofomes, or thofe of Cyti/us Tree Trefoile,many fet together ona {talke,(tanding upright anging downe, (hewing themfelves in eduguft, after which follow hard rough prickly pods, bur I C meas th pods as is exprefled inthe figure,under the other, in each whereof was one of two {mall browne Lentili-like feedes, By this defcription you may plainly fee how muchit om the true of Diofcoridesand the other American of Aldinus, having nothing therein bur ; and therefore in myjudgementit doth better agree with fome Spartum fpinofum, then A2s Arbor [iliquofa Virgin nis [pinofa, Locus noftratibus difta. The Virginian Locus tree, A verylike tree hereunto hath beenc fent and brought usont of Virginia, growing tobe avery great tree, and of an exceeding height with Mafter Tradefcant, whole bodyis covered with a {moothbarke,the young branches being greene,and {et with fomewhat fharpe prickles at every joynt, where the winged leaves come forth, : oa a Rovisi. sfalle deacia of Ameritas 2. Arbor filigao/a Virginenfis /pinofa Locus noftratibus diffa, The Virginia Locus tree, which aré fet inthe like manner with the other, with an odde one atthe end, and fome not, bur ate fomewhat thae fhorterand rounder: we have not feene the tree co beare any flowers withusas yetnor fruicc, bus the cods came to us, were {mall, long,and fomewhatflartike untothe pods of Laburnum Besne t:etoile, buclonger thinner and blacker,containing imall grayith fhiming flacand round feece, i 3. Arbor {pinoja Indica muricatis fil quis, The prickely codded Indian tree. fowne by MaThe feede taken out of the prickly huskes of a tree that was brought from the Welt {ndies,was fer George Willmer at Stratford Baw, androfeup that yeare ro be three or foure Fooce high, branched forch off fundry all fides, “and fer with {mall fharpe crooked thornes, both on the maine tlemme and branchery having wingedleaves fetonthem, very much refembling the laft Virginian Locus. Ican give youno further relation hereof, inthatthe planc perifhed in the next Winter afcer the firlt (pringing,for want of fach due keeping as was fit for {uch ten¢erplants, ‘that come ont from warme Countries + The figure of the prickely huskeor pod, you asa ftone, with may{ce fer onthefide of the figure, with the g:ayith peale taken thereont alio, which was as hard a white kerneil within them,yet sor fi) king in the water. 4. Siliquola & [pinofatrifelia Iadica Coral arbor difta, The Indian Corall tree. Clufius firlt, and fince him B apeslta Ferrarius bythe fight thereof, growingbothat Rome and in Spaine, hath en- largedthe defcription of this cree, which J will¢onwact into one, and cell it you thus. It rifech up with many flemmes,whofe younger barke is fmoothand greenc, the elder paler and more. rugged, {preading fairely with branches, armed with {mall crooked whikith thictnes,and with faire broadfreth greene and almolt round leaves, like unto thofe of Arbor Lede, Indes treebtwecbatthey end ina point, whofe footeltalkes alfo as C/ufins hathex- prefled, have thelike cropkedthornesonthem, which leaves are three alwayes fet together, the two loweft oppofite on (hort footeltalkes,the end one enalonger : the flowers are Peafe fafhion, or like thofe of Pha/eolws ofan otient red colour Iske Corall, of which colour alfo are the Beanes orfruite in pods, like 1 ferteth it downe Siguntoother Pha/eoli s it iswery tendertokeepe.not abiding thelealt cold aire, for as Clufivs by nior de Tonarsthe chicfclt Bhyliianot Sevil inSpaine in histime, baving two trees hereof growing, which one Winters overfharpenefic had chemiboth {poyled therewith, Ihave not alceredthe name hereof, whereby would entitle it Phafeolus itis generally knowne, | utah Ygnight adopt one,as I thinke more fitting thereunto, I arborews (pino{us Indicus flare dorahsno, he The Place and Time, for the All thee foliré forts came fromthe feverall parc of America, but we cannot tell you where diftinétly, from Virginia; The two laft,” burthe firft iris likely came from Canada, the French plantation, and the fecond frowring and feeding is likely to be at the time of other trees at the Spring andFall, he |