31D CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
fo ftrong as the liquid pitch, but is much better, it being more apt to clofe up the 
lips of wounds. 
. Ye POMEGRANATE- TREE. 
Kinps ano Names. THE pomegranate-tree is diftinguifhed into three kinds ; ; 
that is, the manured pomegranate bearing fruit, and the greater and lefler wild kind : 
that firft is called malus punicum and malus granata, and the fruit malum punicum and 
wmalum granatum, becaule it is fuppofed that they were brought over, from that part 
of Africa where old Carthage ftood, into that part of Spain which is now called 
Granada; and from thence called Granatum. ‘The flowers of the manured kind (as 
Diofcorides faith) are called citimi, but Pliny calleth the fowers of the wild kind 
¢itinus, and the flowers of both kinds dalaufium , but citinus is more properly thecup | 
wherein do ftand the flowers of both kinds : da/auftium is with us generally taken for 
the double flowers of the wild kind only. 
Description. The pomegranate-tree bearing fruit, malus punica Sativa, This 
epee groweth not great in the warm countries, and, where it is natural, not above 
feven or eight feet high, {fpreading i into many flender branches, here and there fet 
with thorns, and with many very fair, green, fhining, leaves, like the leaves of large 
myrtle, every one upon a {mall and reddith foot(talk. Among the leaves come 
forth, here and there, the flowers, which are like bell-flowers, broad at the brims, 
and fmaller at the bottom, being one whole leaf divided at the top into five parts, 
of an orient crimfon colour naturally, but much paler with us, and many veins run- 
ning through it, with divers threads in the middle, and ftandiag in a brownifk. hollow 
_ cup, or long hard husk : the fruit is great and round, with ahard, {mooth, brownifh- 
: red, tind ; not very thick, but yellowifh on the infide, and acrown at the top, ftored 
=f len ifully with a fineclear liquor or juice, like wine, full of feeds inclofed in skins, 
' an the Tiquor among them. Sometimes this breaketh the rind as it groweshy whith 
Wi aufe it to rot very foon, 
: AND a Asad The manured kinds grow in Spain, Italy, Picness ‘ ae ee 
wuntries ; but here in England they are preferved and houfed with great care, 
‘ot £0 Perfeétion,) and the wild kind with much mores Ms Jig a 
4 ma iiicdete: all the forts breed good blood, yet 
i nourifhment ; they are very helpful to the ftomach : ‘thofe 
t pleal It, yet they fomewhat heat, and breed wind and choler, 
