AND COMPLETE HERBAL: 303. 
made therewith, called ele@uarium de citro folutivum, to evacuate the bodies of cold. 
phlegmatic eonftitutions, and may fafely be ufed where choler is mixed with phlegm: 
The inner white rind of this fruit is rather unfavoury, almoft without tafte, and is 
not ufed in phyfic. The four juice in the middle is cold, and far furpaffeth that of 
lemons in its effects, although not fo fharp in tafte. It is fingularly good, in all 
peftilential and burning fevers, to reftrain:the venom and infection, to fupprefs the 
choler and hot diftemper of the blood, and to quench thirft ; and correéteth the 
bad difpofition of the liver. It ftirs up an appetite, and refrefhes the over-fpent 
and fainting fpirits: refifteth drunkennefs, and helpeth giddinets of the head, by 
the hot vapours arifing therein, which caufeth a phrenzy for want of fleep. The 
feed not only equalleth the rind in its virtues, but in many inftances{urpaffeth it. | 
Slt PEPPER. 
Kinps anv Namss. THERE are feveral forts of pepper, as black, white, . 
and long, pepper ; called piper nigrum, album, et longum. The black, and white, 
pepper, differ not either in manner of growing, or in form of leaf or fruit. The 
long pepper alfo grows in the fame manner, but differeth in the fruit. All thefe 
forts grow on aclimbing buh, in the Eaft Indies, after one manner, that is, as 
hopsgrow with us; fo that, if they be not fuftained by fomie tree or pole, on which 
they may climb and fpread, they will lie down onthe ground, and thereon run, and 
fhoot forth {mall fibres at every joint. But the ufual manner is to plant a branch 
taken from the bufh, near fome tall tree, great cane, or pole, and fo it will quickly, 
by winding itfelf about fuch props, get to the top thereof ; being full of joints, and 
thooting forth fair, large, leaves, one at each joint, being almoft round, but end- 
ing ina point, green above, and paler underneath, with a great middle rib, and 
four other ribs, fomewhat lefs, fpreading from it, two on each fide, and {maller 
therein alfo, unto the edges, which are fmooth and plain, fomewhat thin, and fet 
On a-pretty long foot-ftalk. ‘Fhe fruit, or pepper, whether black, white, or long, 
rowethat the fame joint, but on the contrary fide, oppofite to the leaf, round 
about a long ftalk, fomewhat thinly fet all along thereon, or not fo clofe.as a bunch. ~ 
of grapes 5 the root hath fundry joints creeping in the ground, with fibres at the 
Joints. The white Pepper is hardly diftinguifhable from the black, by the plants 
‘thereof, until it becomes ripe, (for the white and black pepper grow on 
buthes,) but that the leaves are ofa little paler green colour, and the grains or ber- on: : 
res are white, folid, firm, without wrinkles, and more aromatic. The Jong pep- 
Per hath leaves of very near the fame form and fize, but a little longer pointed, of 
No. 21, 4K a paler 
