28 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Description. It groweth into a tree of a reafonable height, with large dented 
leaves, cut in upon the edges, and of a pale green colour. adhe bloffoms. are large 
and white, which falling, the fruit follows. 
Prace. The tree is a native of Ethiopia; but it is Slanted i in the gardens 0 or 
nurferies of many of the curious in this kingdom. 
Time. They blofflomin April and May, and the Prait3 is ripe in Auguft and 
September. : : oe 
GovERNMENT-AND Virtues. The apples of love are under Venus ; yet are they 
_cold and moift in an extreme degree. They are olygotrophic and cachochymic; yet, 
in hot countries, they are eaten asfauce, boiled with pepper, falt, and oil. The : 
juice, boiled with uxungia to a falve, heals all inflammations and burnings; and 
the leaves boiled with oil-olive, till crifped, then ftrained, and afterwards boiled with 
“wax, rofin, and alittle turpentine, to a falve, arean infallible remedy for old fores 
and ulcers of the privities, or for wounds and ulcers in other parts of the body, com- 
‘Ing of heat, or vifcous humours of the blood. 
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‘Description.’ THIS isa kind of mofs that groweth on fundry forts of trees, 
.eIpecially oak and beech; with broad, greyifh, tough, leaves, diverfly folded, crum- 
_pled, and gafhed in on the edges, and fometimes {potted alfo with many {mall {pots — 
on the upper fide; it was never feen to bear any ftalk, or flower at any time. 
“GoveRNMENT AND Virtves. Jupiter feems to own this herb, which is greatly 
~ufed by phyficians to help the difeafes of the lungs, and for coughs, wheelings, and 
~ fhortnefs of breath, which ic cureth both in man and beaft.; it is very fuccefsfully 
oufed i in lotions that are taken to ftay the moift humours that flow to ulcers, whici © 
8 hinder their healing ; as alfoto wath all other ulcers inthe privy parts of man OF 
cexcrefeence, or. inc of es bee groweth on this tree, Selig within white, 
foft, and fpongy, like a smufhroom. The agaric is hot in the firft degree, and dry — 
in the fecond ; 5 it hath se iSuaing cleanfing quality, and purges obftructions of 
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