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five leaves each, growing together on a Jong ftalk, which afterwards turn into fmall 
berries, rather than plumbs, of a blackifh green colour when they are ripe, every 
one ftanding in alittle cup, of a fweet tafte, and glutinous or clammy fubftance, and 
a very thick fkin; within which lieth a three-fquare hard ftone, with a thick hell 
and afmall kernel ; thefe are gathered and laid in the fun, whereby they SfOw wen 
led ; and{o they are kept and brought to us in boxes. 
i WILD SEBESTEN. 
THE wild febeften is in all things like the other, but that it groweth hove 
much like unto a hedge-bufh, and with fmaller and thinner leaves. The flowers 
and fruit are like, but lefs. 
In fhops they have only the name of febeften, but in Latin the tree is called myst 
and myxa, and mixaria. 
Peace ann Time. The firft groweth in Syria, ici is but planted in ‘Egypt, 
whence they were brought into Italy in Pliny’s time, and grafted on the fervice-tree, 
and do now grow in many places in their orchards. It is fo tender that it will” not 
endure the cold with us. The wild kind, as Alpinus faith, is Setpiad in n Egypt: they 
flower in May, and the fruit is ripe in September. 
GovERNMENT AND Virtus. This is a plant of Venus: the Arabians es 
Greeks hold that they open the body as much, or rather more, by reafon of the mu- 
cilage inthem, than the damafk prunes; more however while they are green, and 
lefs when they are dry; yer the decoction of them, or the infafion of them in 
broth, although dried and taken whole, worketh effectually ; ; which Fufchius de- 
niet, and affirmeth that they are rather binding, They ferve to cool any intemperate 
heat of the ftomach or liver, and therefore are good in hot | agues, and to purge cho- 
3a whereof they come. Mathiolus faith, that ten drachms, or twelve at the molt, 
‘ef the pulp of febeftens taken from the fkins and ftones, work to as good parpofe as 
the pulp of caffia fijula, They are very effectual alfo to lenify the hoarfenefs and 
it fs of the throat ; they help the cough and wheafing of the lungs, and diftil. 
— ipon them, by lenifying of the paffages, and caufing much phlegm to be void- 
: BBE alfo give eafe to fuch as are troubled with pains in their fides, and thole 
are ¢ ed with heat in their urine, and fharpnefs thereof proceedit cae 2 
choler of fale ‘phlegm , they alfo drive forth the long worms of the belly. “Phere i ig 
a kind of birdline made of 'thefe fruits by boiling them A little in water to take away 
the fkins and ftones, ‘and afterwards boiling them more to a confiltence ; ; the which 
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