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Trien16, The Place and Time, The firt groweth notnaturally inall the leffer 4fa, butas Alpinus atid Bellonins and others fay in the greater Afaand Inda,and Braffil alfo,and America,and brought into Egipt and other Chriftian Countries,but as a rat ity: The fecond hath for many yeares beeneplanted in the feverall Countriesof Afia minor, P brigia, Cilicia, and other the partstheresbouts, and in Aps/ia alfo,and in manyof the Ifles in the AZediterranean Sea, and fowne not untillthe end of Aprill, and gathered againe in the end of e4ugs/f or in Septemberthe third came out of India likes wile, and thela{t frori about Bavtamin Tava, the formerfort ripening the fruice fomewhat «more carly then the other, The Names, Iris called in Greeke Svanit yrarimer, and fo likewile in Latine, Xylum and Goffipinw, and of Serapio Coto, and Bombax, as itis {oalf{o called in the Apothecaries fhoppes: Somedoe thinke and that not without good groundofreafon; that the By/fof the Auncients, isthisfirft Cotton, from whence was made the Byffina tela, the fine white Callicocloath,that commeth out of the Eaft Indies : All Authours call them in general Xy/um or Goffipinm, and the firll Go/fipium arborenm by Alpinws, and bythe Egiptians as he faith,Gotne mfegiar, itis more likelythat Belonine meantthis tree by his Arbor danifera,then that of Clujivs in his Exotickesbroughtont of ava andfitteft for cufhions,and Goffipinm: perenne arboreum five Afiaticum,and Brafilianum by others, The {econd is cal+ led Goffipium berba,to diftinguihhit from the former, Bawhinus calleth it Goffipium frutefcens femine albo,for{ure he can meane no other fort,citing thofe Authonts that he doth, who all I think fay it is black. The thirdis extant only in Pona his Italian Baldws by the name of Bombage Indiano, that is Goffipium Indicnm. Bauhinus calleth ic Goffipinm arborenns caule (pina/o,and faith the {cede is in lumpeslike the ordinary fort, when'as Pena himfelfeaith it istike the feede of Subdarifa,that is, the thorny Mallow, and pidureth the feede like thereunto,at'thefide of the figure, and isnot like the lumpe fort. The la{t Cafeus mentioneth inthe fonre teenth ( hapter of his firlt Booke of Exotickes, calling it Arbor lanifera peregrina, Banhinus that he mightfay fomewhat,-referreth it to the Cylof Oviedus,and queftioneth whether it be not Belonius his Lanigera arbor, calling it himfelfe Goffipium Iavanch/e [a licés folio. The Arabian Serapioas you heard, calleth it Coto, and Bombax, and others Algodon, asthe Spania: ds doe; the Italians Bombagia,the French Cotone,the Germans Baumwool, the Dutch and we Corton, and Cotton wooll, The Vertues, Thekernells of the ‘eedes is ufed to lenefie the hoarfeneffe ofthe throate,and to helpé thofe that are fhortwin- ded,to openthe paflagesyand for thofe thachave tharpe diftillations on their lungs, and for coughes, to make the flegmethe eaficr tobe expeCtorated,and encreafeth {perme alfo: itis nfed alfoin grtipings,and gnawings of the fiomacke, yea though they comeby poyfon, andare good alfo in all hor agues, the Cotton it felfeis hot and dry, and being burned flanchethbleedings in wounds wonderfully : the oyle drawnecut of the feed doth {mooth theskin, and taketh away {potsand blemifhestherein, Trese 16, The Theater of Plants, — _ Cwar.io4, 155§ The Place and Time, The(e kindes grow in Narbone and Provence in France, and in Spaine and Italy in many places: the flowers generally appeare before the leaves breake forth, yet bringeth not the cods to maturity in our Country, yet we have had them grownelarge and very reddifh, but contained not anyripe feed within them, The Names, It is notcértainely knownethat either Dio/corides or Theop' raftus, have made mention of this tree in all their Workes, for although fomehave taken it to be that Colyrea of Theophrafius; which he mentioneth in his third Booke and foureteenth Chapter, but untothis he ateributetha leafe like unto Wiilow, which thisis utterly unlike, others againe, that is, hole of Mompelier as Clu(ius {aith,unco that Colytea of Ida, that Theopbrafiua mentioneth in the feventeenth Chapter of rhe faid third Booke, whereunto heattributeth the leafe of the larger leafed Bay tree,butlarger,rounder, and fomewhat like the Elmeleate, yet fomewhat long with all; greene above and whitifh underneath,and whereuntofaith (/ufiw,he in the fourereenth Chapter of the faid third Booke attributeth cods,. the defcriptions of both which faithhe, being concraéted into one, agree wellunto this Arbor Inde >but by C/ufivs his leave, this cannot hang together ; for although they in both thofe Chapters, thatis; the 14.and 19. are called Colytea ; yet they are plainely diftinguifhed by Theopbraftus both in their leaves, the onelike a Willow,the other like a Bay leate, but rounder; and al(o in their fruite, that with the Willow leafe hath cods faith Theepbrafius like unto Pulfes: but chat with broad Bay leaves, hatha Chachrys or Amentum as Gazatranflateth it, and isfaidtobe without floweror fruite, andbefides hath yellow rootes: fo that you may {ee plainely both thofe cannot be contracted to make oneplant, their leaves being declared tobe fo divers: Some therefore would referre this tree unto the Cercis Theophra/ti mentioned in ewo places, the one in the faid foureteenth Chapter of his thitd Booke, wherehefaith it is like the white Poplar tree, both in greatnefle and kinde of Poplarcalled Lybice the A{pen tree (which Gaza tranflated Alpina) the otherplaceis in the firft whiteneffe of branches, with thelcafeoflvy,8c. which C/ufius chinketh is but an ample defcription of thé third Booke and 4 8. Chapterswhere he reckoneth Cercss to be one ofthofe trees that beareth fruite or feedes incods,as Colwtea of Liparadoth,fo that youfee in this Clufius was alfo miftaken, as AZatthiolus was aif before him: but indeed this defeription of(¢rcis commeth ncereft unto this Arbor Inde, ofany other tree that hath beenelikened unto ic, Some have called this treein Latine Febago, fromthelikeneffe ofthe cods unto Beane cods, and fome tobe Leburnum orfome kinde thereof; bucthe molt curram nameis Arbor Iude, yetClafius calleth it Silique Sjlveftris, notashe faith, becaufe it doth agree with the Siliqua of the Auncients, but becaufe the Spaniards called ie Algarovo Loco which isas much as Siliqua fatna, and thole of Caffile Arbold amor the French calkit Guainier becanfe the cods are like knive fheathes, we have no other Englifo name to call it by, then Judas tree; untill fome other canimpofe amore aptforit. Icis judged by many that AZaethiolys his firlt Acacia, in his former editions,was but a counterfeit figure of this ArborlInde,whereunto he caurfed thiornes to be put tomake it feeme the more probable, The Vereues, Cuap. CIII. Arbor Iudz, Arbor ude, Iudas tree, g There is no remembranceof any Phyficall property apptopriate hereunto eithér by ancient or moderne rie ters,nor hath any later experience found out any = but from Virginia,we heare they accountthe flowers to be ani excellent fallat ingredient. Indas tree: F the Isdas tree there hath beene cb- CuHarp. j\fervedtwo forts, one with crimfon, and the other with white flowers, View, 1. A) bor Inde flore parpureo, —— lads tree wich crim{on flowers. als Iad.zs tree rifeth up fometimesto be high, and ofa good fize, and fometimes to be butasan hedge buth, {preading armesand branches, covered with a blackifh ted barke, the leaves that comeforth uponthe young reddifh branches one ata place, are \ Here is a wondrous great variety of Vines that are manured, as I have fhewedelfe where in my for= mer Booke, (ome there are that grow wild, which thall be declared inthis Chapter, with a recitalf of fomeofthe choyfelt of the other. __ from falling downe, the young being red, andthe old ofa darke colour, with a pith in the middle, arthe fundry joynts whereof grow feverall large broad greeneleaves, cut into five divifions and dented alfo about the edges, at the joyntslikewife againft the leaves comeforth long twining téndrels,cla(= perfide, and grayith underneath, falling awayin Autumne: the flowers grow not atthe ends of the branches, butat the joynts, and fometimes out of the very body, many flanding rogether upon # long footeftaike, of fafhion fomewhat like unto Peafe bloffomes, ofan excellent deepe crimfon colour, after which follow fundry long’ flat and large thinne cods, of areddith browne colour, with flat blackifh browne hard feede within them: the pling or winding about what(oever ic may take hold of : atthe bottomes of theleaves, come forth clafters of mall greenith yellow flowers,andafter them berries, thicke (et together in bunches of feverall formes, great= nefle, colour and tafte, in fome the clultets are clofe, and others are more open, and fome being round, others more long, and fome tending toa {quare ; (omelikewife are very {mall, as the Curran Grape, others great,and fome ameane betweene both: fome againe are white, others blacke, or blewifh,or red,or parti-coloured, and for raltes, they are fo variable that I cannot deferibe them, both {weete according to the feverall climates they grow in, and fowerorharth,or mixt, more orlefle pleafant one then another, within which there are ufually one two orthree kernels: They that kcepe their Vines in the belt manner doe keepe them low,and cut them of ten, both Winter and Summer,wherebythey grow the better, and take up leflé roome, bringing their Grapes Troote srowerth deepe and fpreadethfarre. Vaguniana. Of thisfort there is one growing in Virginia, not dif- both fairer and {weeter. 2+ Vitt leciniatinfolys, The Parfely Vine or Grape withthin cutleaves. fering from it in anything,that I canas yet perceive, 2. Arbor Iudeflore albo, Judas tree with white lowers. ‘This other ‘i groweth as grest as the former, but as in the former,and the (eed likewile paler. 1, C'itw Vinifera, The manured Vine, The manuted Vine in places where it hath ftood long, hath a great Remmé as bigge as arme fleeve andall, {preading without end or meafare if it be fuffered, many flender weake branches, ones that multe fultained large and round, greater, but thinner thenthe leaves of Afarabacca of a whitith gteene colour on theup- with a whiter barke, and thebranches greene, the leaves and flowersatelike for forme, but of a white colour,and the cods after them, nething fo brownie CIV. The Vine. o> a=jy iN Af A () YESYS » \ NS . _ This alfo groweth as other Vines doe, the difference chiefely confifting im the leaves, whichiare very much ine cifed or cut intomany parts,even almoft to the middle,and denred,the Grapes which are white and great, are like unto the white Mufcadine Grape, and of'as goodarellith, bearing great bunches, and ripening with the middle fort of Grapes, L ~ 3. Labrufeafive Vitis[ylucstris Eurepea, The wild Vine of Ewrope, % The wild Ving inre gardic is naturall, and therefore neglected, lyethfor the moft part on the pround,and théreby is made le fle fruicefull unleffe it mecte with fome hedge or tree, whereonit may clime, and then {preadeth _ the |