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Show 1678 TbeatroBotanico eAppendix. Saal eae 3. Uyrobolani (babuli utfertur Icon vera, Atrue figure ofthe purple. Myrobalane or purging Indian Plumme, Veflingius in bis farvay of Alpinus his Egiptian plantsfaith, thache often faw in the Orchard of acertaine chiefe Turke, atree growing, which the keeper therofcalled Dileg el chabsl, growing —— 7 Myrobolani Chebuli nt ferturicon vera, ; A branchof the true Chebull Myrobol ane,or purple purging Indian Plume asit isthought,to be referred’to:- p.246- An eAppendixto the Theater ofPlant, a 1679 Page 380, Linethe fixteenth, put outRandces Carpimon five racemofum Canadenfe, but why Pasax being no wound herbe;I fee no caufe,unleffe it be for wantofabetter name,’ put outasI (aid all this, beceufe it pertaineth to another place. ; : ' Page 380, Linethefixteenth, put out thofe three laft lines in the mes, and inflead of them put Aconitum baccts nibes & rubris: but (thinke Lhave more truely referred it to the Chriftophoriana. Inthe Vertues likewife put our che Panaces Carpinon,and all that followeth,and in the place thercoffetthefe lines,, Cornutus faith, they gaveicthe name of Aconitum, rather from the likenefle unto an Aconitethen from any deliceriall quality they Knew tobeinit, and{uppofeth that the white berries fhould rather portend good then harme. Page 787, Lines part of the 18 19 and part of the 20. 4re'to be [trucké ont,not being intended for chatplace, to be as bigge as a Plumetree, with a fmooth pale coloured barke, the wood being whitifh and as may plainely be difcerned by therelation, And inthe ftead thereofread theft lines : The Fourthis called by fomewhat fweet, the branches fpread fairely and thicke, bending eafily and hardly breaking, ar- Clufios Apocynum Syriacum Palefitrum, & forte -Agyptinm; becatile héyeferreth ic ro the Beidelfar of Alpinus in his Booke of Egiptian plants, and to the Offarfrutes of Honorins Bellws in his third Epiftle to him, faying with- med with fharpe long thotnes: rhe leaves are fet by couples together on a fhort footeftalke, all, that Dotor Chriftopher Weiscins,eave him the dsyed branch, ‘which he fet forth, and that ashe told him he being fomewhat long with the roundacfle, and a lictle round pointed. ( nothing like unto Peach leaves, as isformerly fet downe) the lower ones being Jarger then thofe upward onthe fame bratich: and without any dent on the edge. The Clufiys his relation and judgement thereof: I have faid {omewhat hercof in my former Booke, page 444, Buc I would toexplaine it the better, adde fomewhat more thereunto, Firft chat it is not probable to me that this plant which Clufus fetceth forth (and is without all queftion the very fame that rofe wich me from the {eed was gathered it neere the River Jordan, in Palsftina where it grew, andthe people there called it Beidfar >this is brought out ofNew England uponthefirlt difcovery thereof, both flalkes, leaves, and flowers, agreeing foexad- ly thereunto, and both fofme and colour of the flowers anfwering icin every point, onély the pods whire: feed an{wereth not unto this; which I doubrtherefore is but mifaken) fhould be found narurall to thofe parts, fee. ing as | faid itis naturall to Virginia, or New England, and efpecially chat thename Bridfar fhould be given to it, which is moft probable belangeth to that of Alpines, and Bellas, whichis quite a differing plant from this as f fhewed in my former Booke,bothfromthe growing hereof, which dyerh downe every yeare,and from the milke fruite is of areafonable greatnefic, bigge in the middle, and {mall at both ends, and of a darke orblackifh red colour, and fomewhar. fapide. Theyufe to preferye them, and {fo impart them to thofe of he greareft ranke, and have a purging it giveth, which is not caulticke like the Offar, and in the rootes which arerunnihg ynder ground, which the o- quality in them. ther doth not, And thirdly, they: fay that the O/far or Beidel/ar beareth yellow flowers, and nor exprefled ro grow incluflersas this doth; and Laftly}thac the pods of this Apoczuam are crooked. according to the forme expreffed inthefigure, when as thafe ofOffaare round like Tefticles, and thofe that C/a/ius. fetreth forth are not crooked like unto thefe. Baxhinus in following (/ufiue,fheweth that he never faw the plant, and therefore ta- S. Rubia fylurfiris avgenteaCretica, Silver-like wilde Madder of Canay. This {mall Candy white Madder, from a fmall long flender roote fhooreth forth divers ftalkes, kethit for graunred whatfoeverhe faid,-or reixius informed hin, when as by thisthat Lhave here delivered itis probable Weixins yas miftaken, and that hath caufedall the{derroiirs : as alfo that of Bawhiaur, Hat would make itakinde of Docke, calling ic Lapathum _Z.qyptiacnm latle/cens feliqua Afclepiadis, which hathfolittte corre(pondence withreafon and judgement, that I wonder that fo famous an Herbarilt as Banbisws ws, thould relyeupon anothers foolifh opinion in the denominationthereof, and fo divulge it to the world, whereof I have formerly faidfomething: The fifchisremembred by Cornutws, among his Casadapiants, nothalfe a foote long, with fundry {mall, long, foft and filver coloured leaves fet by {paces,fome times but two,other whiles foure at a {pace, and withthem upwardsto thetoppe, {mall yellowith fowers, itis without any other tafte thena little aftringent, and is faid to be profitable for fluxes in man or woman. 8. Rubra fylveftris argentea Cretica. Silver like wild Madder of Candy, p.277s Ranunculus fjlvaram five Anemone (ylucfris foe pleno albo, “The double whité wilde Anemone to be inferred in p.z2y. 6 Pfeudopacynur Virginianum, alijs Gelfminum Amerie cajnum maximum (lore phenices. The great Orrenge colouced:¥irgiia laimine, to be iaferted p3 85 Capnos fabacea vadice. Boonkens Holwortel,or {mall roundroored Fumiterry, p-288, Ccececee 3 |