Of the of Plants.

C 22-: A P. 13.8. 0’/“P4/ma Cbrg‘/ii.

{I The D eferiptim.

I5;/b'rr5‘_, Palm C/mflz, or Kz‘/c, hatha great round hollow fialke fine cubits high 2 of 3 browrre colour,died with a blewifh purple vpon green. Theleaues are great and large’ parted into {undiy {Enfiions or diuifions,faihioned like the leaties of a figtree,bU€ grfia" ter,fpred or wide open like the hand of a man, and bath toward the top a bunch of flours elufirlflg together like a bunch of grapes 5 whereofthe lowell are of a pale yellow colour, and wither away’

without hearing any fruit 5and the vppermolli are reddifh, bringing forth three cornered h“5l‘es.

which containe the feed as big as a kidney bean, of the colour and fhape of a certain vermin W ‘C haunteth cattell,called a Tik.

2 This Pzzlimz Cbrzfli of America growes vp to the height and bigneffe of a final tree or hedge fhrub,ol‘a wood-dy fubf’tance,whofe fruit is exprefied by the figure, being of the bignes ofa gm“ beamfornewliar long,and of a blackifh colour,rough and fcaly.

1 Ricimis . Palrna Chrifii.

2 Ricimt: Ameriamm‘. _ Palma Chrifii of Amem-'3'

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\ . . . _ . . . . deft‘ The firfl kinde of Rzmmr or Palma Chrifli groweth in my garden, and in many other ha’

likewife. ‘T T58 Time.

R,-H-,,,,,. Ormk is {O-Wm in Apri1l,and the feed is ripe in the end of Augullz.

Tire Name, and caufe t/zereof. _ GCWW) gi:z'cz'rm.>' (wliereof mention is made in the fourth chapter and fixt Verfi‘: Ofthfi PT0Ph‘7C‘° ‘ was

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was eaiiecl of the Talmudiltsi 2»: Kikfor in the Talrnud we reade thus, Jr: }mv::<"nlV€[0 écfc/zcmcrz K;k.-

E?.ngiiih,And not with the oyle ofI<'z‘k.-whichioile is called in the Arabian tongue,Alker« Eiizfiéz S.zmue_l the [mine of H o}>//12:2 teltifictli. Moreouer a certaine Rabbine moueth a quellionfi bl.‘ t 11$; Hereunto Rejcu hrztixzfli maketh an {wet in Ghemara, fayirig, Ki_k is nothing _eli’e Greelge Phlff 3 3110!). And thatthis is true, ieappeareth by that name xmzwhich the Ancient; K2}; Heb) 1Ii1[ODS,8DCl thefEg:ptians Vi€(.l5WhlCh Qreeke word commeth of the_Hebrew word mmmgm dye O1i’il}£pC€1'r€tl1,t.l1ii!l:ll{.‘OlCl.WI'lt€!'S long agoe called this plant by the true and proper anhmor Wili Its atine V‘V1‘l{t}til’S knew rtby_the_name Cm/lrbzt.1_,vvhich euidently is manifefied by it us . “fit c 1 ijlfltnxfltl‘/£14 j.i/16' recordeth in his Eplflflf.‘ to Saint Ierome,where in effeél he writeth

Oman a tirpaame A i,%;iyo.=a is of linall riioment,yet{_fo mall matter cauled a great tumult in Africa.

muih Chg tit a pertaine Bzfhop hauing an cicca ion to f1_I‘lt1‘Cat of this lwhich is mentioned in the mmc~h of pi Ll‘)O [1'l1»;xi:Z:fl1!lS pt;)Pl7§1}I]C (Hg? cc; Iation or” C;mOl‘J,\zhiC (gmade in his Cathcdrafl fed E0 {O p ace 0» 2. em_oly)faid,t attf 13 p ant lxyas ca hel Cuftar ztafiad oyrd, becaufe it encrea. and Wtmt;heatCa1:1uan_titie,in _o {horta pace,ore e (fart 1€)1t1dSCa c He e?¢.Vp0n the nouelty Him: And h of Eb is his clo6’crine,thc people were greatly offende , and thcreo fuddenlgarofeatu- memagm up y urly , (0 that the Bifhop was enforced to goe to the Iewes, to aske t eir Judge- was KA_IM_i1c iilpg the name of this plant..And when he had receiued of them the true name, which fa! g Ee‘£*f-@071, e made his open recantation, and confeffed his errour, and was iufily acculed ror a X e F t reholy Scripture. it The Greekes called this plant alfo ze;m»:z.Rzcmm,by reafon of

1lIl.li.ltLlClC that the feed bath with that infeét, to wir,a Tilt. 1: Th M _ a fkc Nature. _ K _ _ e feed ofPalma Chril'li,or rather 1(zlr,is hot and dry in the third degree.

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R1:Ci7)u5 C o . . r er from the places pollefled therewith.

his feed taken inward lyppeneth the bclly,and caufeth vomit, drawing flimy flegrne and A

andtlee roth of the meat {upped vp, wherein the feed hath beene f‘odden,is good for the colicke 3

and drO§(i):_t‘a“d againfi the paint: in the hips called S ci4tlc4.- it preuaileth alfo againfl the jaundife " O[€::°d0yle that is made or drawne from the feed is called olmn Cicimzm : in {hops it is called,

fig C/.2em_a s ltfiheatcth and drieth, as was {aid before, and is good to anoint and rub all rough _ e and icuruine {Te gottenby itch. A 15 0yle,as 12466:‘ Dam! Cbimclzi writeth,is good againlt extreme coldnefle of the bod y.

CHAP. I39. Ofsjmrge.

. Q} T/2e Defcriptian.

! T146 firll kinde of Sea Spurge rifeth forth of the lands, or baich of the fea, with fiindry

_ ffiddllh fiems or flalkes growing vpon one fingle root, ofa wooddy fubflanee zandl

The Hon the fialkes are befet with (mall, fat, and narrow leaues like vnto the leaues of Flax.

Spurge ‘X: are yellowilh,and grow out of little difhes or Saucers like the common kindeof 2 file ftfir the fl_oures come triangle feeds,as in the other Tithymales. _ A

8 , econd kindc(called Heliofcopiu:,0r: Solzféqaim : and in Engliflrgaccording to his“ Greeke

‘Edd?’ “"5 5P"’%°a0Y time Tithymale, of turning or keeping time with the Sunne) hath fund ry

.ao°l:tflt‘ flfilkes of 3 Te gcfififisd‘ ‘Fe H01-"CS are yellowifh,and growing in little platters. _ ‘ lfgues “k If kinde hath rhickc, fat,and {lender branches trailing vpon the ground, befet with

iride. C Knee-h0lm°>°' ‘I16 great Myrtle tree. The feed and floures are like vnto the other of his

4 The fourth is ' ‘ i ' ' t i ' k 1 k. .. . . . _ . 3 rmwer 5 it gmwetb 1 e the lat’: before mentioned,but it is altogether Iefftr, and the leaues an?

‘V S C b ‘ morevpright, otherwaies alike. pp _ _ F P1ax,afidY§T%$i:ér§Kmale hath Tound reddifh Ptalkes a foot high, long and narrow like more 0-?

1‘0ot,are like the For mgr thicke together like as thofe of the Cyprus tree. The flourcs, fefidsaflfii g The fixtis liglgxhggnetimes yellowpftentimes red.

, 5 V A _ _ _ hath Ieaues “mow d Olmenin floutes,fl:alkes,root_s,and fceds,and diifcreth in that,this kinde Wife it like em“ m“Ch fmaller,growing after the farhion ofrhoffr Of the P1115 U60» 0th€r~

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7 There is ““°‘3h¢I kinda that groweth to the height of a man ;rhe Psalke is like the lat? T t mientioncd

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a foot high: the leaues are like vnto Purflane, not {Q great nor thicke, but fnipt V