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in others not much lower than the lemon: tree, {preading out into fundry great long 
arms and branches ; ; fet with long and tharp thorns, and fair, large, and broad, frefh 
green leaves, a little dented about the edges, with a fhew of almoft invifible holes in 
them, but lefs than the orange-leaves have; of a very fweet fcent, the fowers 3 green 
at the leaves, all along the branches, being fomewhat longer than thofe of the 
orange ; made of five thick, whitith, purple, or bluith, leaves, with fome threads 
in the middie, after which followeth fruit all the year, being feldom feen without 
ripe fruit, and half-ripe, and fome young and green, and bloffoms, all at once. 
This kind beareth great.and large fruit, fome the fize of a mufk melon, others lefs, 
but all of them. with a rugged, bunched-out, and uneven, yellow bark, thicker. 
than in any of the other. forts, with a-four juice in the middle, and fomewhat great, 
_ pale, whitifh, or yellow, feed, with a bitter kernel lying in it; the fmell ‘of this. 
fruit is very {trong and comfortable to the fenfes. 
2. The fmaller pomecitron tree, citria malus minor, frve limonera ; this tree groweth 
very like the former, but the leaves are fomewhat fmaller and fhorter, and fo. are 
the thorns; the flowers are of a deep blufh colour, and the fruit lefs and longer 
than they, but no larger than the fmall fruit of the former ; the rind is alfo ailek 
and yellow, but not fo rugged, having more four juice and fewer feeds. * 
3. Citria malus, five limonera pregnans. This differs very little from the foregoing. 
~Prace AnD Time. All thefe forts of citrons are cultivated in Spain, by the 
curious, but were tranfported thither from fundry places abroad. The great pome- 
- citron was brought firft from Media and. Perfia, and was therefore called malum 
Medicumand malum Perficum. The laft was brought from the fortunate iflands. ee 
are continually in flower and bear fruit throughout the year. 2 
-GovERNMENT AND Virtues. Thefe are folar plants, yet they are of diene 
‘qualities ; all the parts of the fruit hereof, both the outer and inner rind, as well as 
the juice and feed, are of excellent ufe, though of contrary ‘effects one to.anothers 
{ ing hot and dry, whilft others are cold and. dry ; the outer yellow rind is 
et in fmell, highly aromatic and bitter in tafte; and, dried, is a fovereign 
‘the heart, and an excellent antidote againft venom and poifon in cafes of © 
| rany other infection ; it warmeth and comforteth a cold and windy fto- 
and difperfeth cold, raw, and undigefted, humours therein, or in the bowels, 
and mightily expellet niet Being chewed in the mouth, it helpeth a ftinking 
breath ; it alfo hel ion, and is good againft melancholy. The outer rinds 
tuaries, and prefervatives again{t infection and melan- 
are often ufed in cor a | 
holy. It alfo helpeth to loof Se the ‘body, and therefore thereis a folutive eletuary 
