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19/»: Place, Phyﬁtion and Profeﬂbr of V al cil- tia, who fhewed me the tree growing in the Garden of a Monaiterie a mile from V3399‘ tiasbrought thither,as they fay,out of AIM‘ rica, and he faid they called it ammy : :3“? the Spaniards who haue defcribcd America ﬁiue this name to another tree. But dipers yeares after, I vndetitood by the men -6’-ﬁr‘ ned Simon dc Tamzr,a Phyfition of C luilﬁli ho hath the fame tree in his Garden, with other exoticke plants,that it is not called;/‘WW7’ but Agzmoate. Thus much out of Clw;/1'”? where fuch as are cleﬁrous,may ﬁnde’m0!_5 largely handled the queﬂion, whether this be the Perfczz of the Ancients or n0?R47‘7W‘1:'?7I' ﬂ4ﬁ.H{ﬂ.l.I.c.2_

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He (hrub which I here ﬁgure 01" Of 3 Cluﬁm, is thought both by him and 0‘ l thers,to be the Conzmzﬂmm or CiaW{”’ mentioned by Geﬁaer in his Epililes,/’ '9‘ 1243.88. It hath branches fome cubic long’ tough,and bare of leaues in their lower Pam’ couered with a blacke barke:and t0W3‘ the tops of the branches grow leaues TOW" what like thofe ofQuinces : of a darke gr“: aboue, and whitiﬂ-i vnderneath, fnipt 317° the edges: at the tops of the branches gro ‘I vfually many floures, confifting of lime Pure plifh coloured leaues apiece, with 0'” _ thredsin their middleszthefe decayiI}t‘§’Vnc der them grow vp red dry berries w1t_ 9 any pulpe or juyce, each of them conta1ﬂ"’_5 foure triangular feeds. Cluﬁw found ‘ ._ flouring in lune vpon the tops of the 5"“; an Alpes, and he queﬁions whether 1‘ We _ not this which Bcllmim found in the m9““ tains of Candy, and called Agriom.¢l€4:M' 1; €419.17. This is not vfed in Phyﬁckeanol I faculties thereof knowne. 7 .

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is day are a medicine frequently vl'ed,and vulgarly ltnowne in fhops; antlent Greekes, but to fome of the later, as ex! ﬁuarzm, andthilt by the name Ofoxypwngm, that is, foure Dates, drawne as it may ieeme from the Arabiclte ap- pe11a;i0n,T,,,,W;,¢,,{;,;hat is, Indian Date : but this name is vnproper, neither tree not fruit being of any afﬁnjcie W 1:11 the Date, vnleﬂe the Pirabicke Tamar by word yfed in_ compoﬁtion for fruits of many kindes,as the Greeke mm. the Larine tmalum, and pple with vs in Englifh 3 for we call the Cone of the Pine, and excrefcence of the Oke leafe, by the name of Pine Apple, and Ok_e Apple. But howfoeue, it be, 1; is no matter for the name, whether it be proper or no,iffo be that it lterue to diﬁipggm, the thing {mm orhers,and we know what is denoted by it. In Malauei thlely call it Putz.- in Guzaratavimgyliiby which name it is knowne in molt parts of the Ealhlndies. T is trfec 1S ghus defcribed by Prﬂ/Per Lﬂlfiﬂmide P’W-vEs7P"»‘“P-‘°- The T3ma“nd(fa"h hells?‘ We 0* Fl“ ‘E?’ neffe ofa Plum tree, with man)’ boughes and law“ mm thcife Offhe Mylde’ many ﬁancilltgg $03 one rib [one againft another,with a ﬁrggle ‘me at the ‘md ‘ i *5 Callfmh Wh“e'ﬂOmCsVer%: id Cf L’ Of the Orange tree :out of whole mlddlc Comes forth fomc “’h‘“? and "cry ﬁend“ t re 3‘. (‘er thefe come :11 jckc and large codS,at ﬁrlt grcene, but when they are ripe ofanafh-colour 5 an with- in thefe are contained thicke. bald: b”°W.m(h’ Cornered fccdsﬁnd 3 blacks acme Pill-pa’ dnfeftl mics grow in fome few gardens ofjggypgwlrither they haue been brought out of Area... ia an _ Ethiopia. This plant hath this Ptrange qua1i‘Y that the leaues “Wales f°1l°“’ the Sm(]3’an "‘.’l“3“ .1: ff“ they anCOntra& themfe1ue5)and open 0llttllCTI1f€1_'-‘C5 againeat the riﬁng tllCl€C)i' 3 and tnere is ooferued

to be ﬁlch force in this motiomthat they clolelyﬂiut vp and hold their code (ifany be on the tree and thﬁﬁ at the riﬁngofthe Sim they forgot: them againe. But I haue oolcrued this foldingévp of the leaues to be common to diners other i’i:gypti,a,p. plants,as ,A,'(7/Zr’/”/I,‘,,,n{5I'!I4':L.x1r9_ﬂ4JﬁIld S as .-in .

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Amarinds, which at th were not knowne to the