290 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
OBZ UEMON-TREE, or LEMONS. 
Names. There are feveral forts of lemons, fome great, others {mall; fome hav- 
ing very thick and rugged peels, and fome very {mooth ; fome are of a wild juice, 
others fharp, and fome very tart'and crabbed ; which alterations may be made both 
by the foil and place where they grow or are planted. 
1, The ordinary lemon-tree is called malus limonia acida vulgaris. 
2. Malus limonia acida, cortice tenui; the thin-rined four lemon. 
3. Malus limonia acida, fruftu rotunda ; the four round lemon. 
4. Malus limonia dulcis major ; the greater {weet lemon. 
5. Malus limonia dulcis minor; the {maller {weet lemon, or civil lcinoth.. 
6. Malus limonia filveftris minima ; the \eaft wild lemon-tree. 
Description. The ord inary lemon tree croweth great and high, with great _ 
arms and flender branches, with long greenifh thorns; the leaves are long like unto 
bay leaves, but dented about the edges, and full of holes; the flowers are white 
and {fweet; the fruit long and round, of a pale yellow colour; and the rind rugged 
and uneven. 
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2. All the difference between this and the former is this, that the other is bigger. 
‘The rind of this fecond is of a fine pale yellow colour, {moother than the firft-men- 
tioned, and thinners i is full of a Pleans fharp juice, with feeds amongft it, as the 
other alfo hath. 
3. The tree that beareth the round lemons i is in all things hike the laft ; only'in 
= this, that it hath few or no thorns upon it; and the fruit is like it, having a thin 
‘ = rind, but is fomewhat rounder, with a fmall crown at the head. 
= 24-4 he greater {weet lemon is greater than any of the former defcribed lemons; 
= “the rind is more fmooth and yellow; and the juice more fweet and pleafant. 
he This lemon is of the fame fize as the thin-rinded four lemon, and fo like, that 
rd, by the outfide, to know one from the other; but this hath alittle deeper — 
rind, and the juice of a fweet pleafant tafte, with a little fharpnefs. 
leaft wild lemon groweth wild in frre and Egypt, andbeareth very: {mall 
igger than a pigeon’s egg. 
lemons are brought unto us from Spain and feveral of their iftands. 
srereens, and never without bloffoms, green and ripe? — 
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Time, 7 = eve 
shioiebous the ae s 
, GOVERNMENT J AND Maris.” The lemons are folar, yet of different parts, a 
contrary effects; they are of od ufe to refift poifon, venom, or apis 3 
I ~ “ounce . 
