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a paler green colour, thinner alfo,; and with a. fhorter foot-ftalk, but four. or five 
* ribs fometimes on each fide, according to the largenefs of the leaf, with other. 
_ {maller veins therein, and has lefs acrimony and hot tafte than the black... The 
fruit of this alfo groweth in like manner at the joints, oppofite to each leaf, which 
are clofer fet together than in the black, confifting of many fimall grains as it were 
fet clofe together in rows, and not open and feparate as in the blag and white 
pepper ; of an afh colour when it is ripe. 
dB varcbapssueasess NT AND Virturs. All the peppers are e under the dominion of ‘Mrs, 
_ deaves as lnerelicets do tobacco’; and even the pepper itl they alfo pricy taking. 
from the branch one grain after another, while they are freth. 
Pepper is much ufed with usin meats and: fauces, comforteth and warmeth aco 
ftomach, confumeth crude and moift humours therein, and ftirreth up the appetite 5 3 
It helpeth to break or diffolve wind in the ftomach or bowels, to provoke urine, to 
help the cough and other difeafes of the breaft, and is effectual againft the bitings of 
ferpents.and other poifons, and to that purpofe i it is an ingredient i in the great anti- 
dotes : but the white pepper, as being. more fharp and aromatical, is of more effect 
in medicine; and fo is the long, being more ufed to be given for agues to, warm the 
‘ftomach before the coming of the fit, thereby to abate the fhaking thereof. All of 
them are ufed againft the quinfey, being mixed with honey, and taken inwardly and 
applied outwardly, and difperfe the kernels, as. well i in A the rap pers as in mye other 
‘parts of the body. 
_ Mathiolus maketh mention ofakind of pepper, which he calleth piper Ebiopicum, 
brought with other merchandize from Alexandria into Italy, and groweth in long 
cods like beans or peafe; but. many cods fet together at a place, whofe grains within 
2 them, being like pepper both in form and tafte, but sen a ftick strc agi to ‘eg 
“3nfide : this fort Serapio calleth 1 granum xelin. 
of | : : ‘continent of the Weft Indies. This kind of pepper is half a foot one 
; the thicknefs of afmall rope, confifting of many rows of {mall grains, ferclofe 
: together a as in n the head of plantane, and is black when ripe; and hotter in tafte, and 
| al and pleafant, than capficum, and preferred before black ee: and 
groweth (fays be) on high trees gee 
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