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with arougher bark below, and green on the branches; yet is it fmaller in lefs 
fruitful foils; {paringly armed with fharp but thort thorns; the leaves are fomewhat 
fimilar to thofe of the lemon, but that each leaf hath a piece of a leaf fet under ir, 
are not dented at all about the edges, and are full of fmall holes in them; the fowers 
are whitifh, and of a ftrong fweet {cent ; the fruit thereof is round, with a thick bit- 
ter rind, of a deep yellowifh-red colour, which from it taketh the name of an orange 
colour, having a foft, thin, white loofe fubftance next unto the outer coloured rind; 
and a four juice lying mixed amongft {mall fkins in feveral parts, with feed between 
them in partitions ; the juice of fome is lefs four than others, and of a tafte between 
four and fweet, nearly like wine. 
| 2. The wild or crab orange-tree, malus aurantia fylvefris. This tree groweth 
wild as our crab-trees do, and is fuller of branches and thicker fet with thorns than 
the former. 5 
3. The apple orange, called in Latin malus aurantia, cortice dele eduli. The Spa- 
aiuids call this orange waranja caxel. This differeth from others not fo much in the 
colour of the outer bark, which is of a deep gold yellowifh-red, but in the whole 
fruit, which is throughout almoft as firm as an apricot, and yet diftinguifhed into 
parts, in the infide, like others; which, together with the bark and rind, is to be 
€aten like an apple; the rind not being rough and bitter as the others, 
- 4. The orange without feeds, malus aurantia, unico grano. This. only differeth 
from that orange which has the beft four juice, in having but one grain or feed in 
the whole juice lying within it. 
5. The dwarf orange-tree, malus aurantia pumilia. The {tock of this dwarf-tree is 
Jow, and the branches grow thick, well ftored with leaves, but they are fmaller and 
_____ Rarrower than the other; the flowers alfo are many, and thick fet on the branches, — 
which bear fruit more plentifully than the former, though of a fmaller fize, yet 
equally well-coloured. 
_ Piaczt anp Time. All thefe forts of oranges, as well as the lemons and citrons, 
are brought unto us from Spain and Portugal; they hold time with the lemons, 
having their leaves always green, with green bloffoms and ripe fruit conftandly ¢ to- 
gether, 
Government AND pret All thefe trees and fruits are governed by Jupiter, 
The fruit is of different parts and qualities; the rind of the oranges is more bitter — 
and hot than thofe of the lemons or citrons, and are therefore preferable to warm @ 
cold ftomach, breaking the wind and cutting the phlegm therein ; after the bitter- 
nefs is taken from them, by fteeping them in water for fundry days, and then pre- 
No. 19. 4D : ferved 
