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AND COMPLETE HERBAL. 26% 
Description. The mattic or lentifk tree groweth like a tree when fuffered to: 
"grow up; and often it rifeth but as a fhrub 3 the body and branches are of a reddifh 
colour; tough and gentle, having their ends bending fomewhat downwards, where- 
on do grow winged dark-green leaves, confifting of four couple, ftanding one 
againft another, of the bignefs of the large myrtle-leaf, with a reddih circle about 
their edges, and fomewhat reddith veins on the under-fide, fmelling fweet, and al- 
ways continuing green ; the flowers grow in clufters at the joints, with the leaves, 
being fmall and of a pale purple green colour ; after them come fmall blackifh ber- 
ries, of the fize of a pepper-corn, with a hard black fhell under the outer fkin, and 
a white kernel within ; it beareth alfo certain horns, with a clear liquor in them that 
turneth into fmall flies. It yieldeth alfo aclear white gum, in fmall drops, when. 
the ftocks are cut in fundry places ; which is carefully gathered and preferved, 
Piace, The lentifk-tree groweth in Provence, in France; and alfo in divers 
parts of Italy ; in Candia, and many other places in Greece 3 but yieldeth little gum: 
there, efpecially in the ifle of Scio, % 
Time. It flowereth in April, and the berries are ripe in September; it is pruned’ 
and manured with as great care by the cultivators as others do their vines; the pro+ 
fit arifing from the gum being much greater. 
Government anp Virtues, The lentifk-tree is under the influence of Jupiter. 
It is of a moderately hot temperature ; but the root, branches, bark, leaves, fruit, 
andgum, are all of a binding quality, ftopping all fluxes and {pitting of blood ; 
ftrengthens.a weak ftomach, and helps falling down of the mother and fundament,. 
The decoction healeth up hollow fores, knitteth broken bones, fafteneth loofe teeth; 
and ftayeth the fpreading of fores, they being fomented therewith. The oil which 
is prefled out of the berries, helpeth the itch, leprofy, and fcab, both in man and 
beaft ; gum-mattic hath the like virtue of ftaying fluxes, taken any way in powder; 
or, if three or four grains of it be fwallowed whole at night when going to bed, it not. 
_ Only eafeth the pains of the ftomach, but hindereth its being affected afterwards ;. 
the powder of maftic, with amber and turpentine, is good againft the running of 
the reins, and to check the fluor albus and menfes in.women. The powder of 
mattic is alfo materially ufeful in topping thin rheums from falling upon the lungs, 
which occafion a continual cough and {pitting of blood. 
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_ Names: IT js called in Latin viburmum sit is alfo called the way-faring. trees. 
and by Mr. Parkinfon, from the pliability of the twigs and branches, the pliant 
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