the Patadife of Plants. 247 
The Form. 
Exft-India Ginger groweth with Leaves, like unto che Water Flagge,or Corne 
“'Blagee : the Hower is fomwhat like unco that of the flewer-de-luce; the pods 
“andieéd alfo beitic not much unlike che pods and feeds ot thefame; the roots 
do likewile {pread very much under-ground in a tafhion not much different from 
the rootes of rhe betore-nentioned Plant... This is che bett defcriprion I can 
prefent you wich at prefent,it being a difficult thing ro defcribe in words the true 
proportion -ofrhofe Plants whofe formes we conid never have the happineffe ro 
- ec, having received them only from the relations of travellers, who very much 
iffer. Key iias tty 
The Places and Time. 
The firtgroweth, as Garcias faith; inall the Countries of the Ba/?-Indies, ei- 
ther planted by che root or fown of feed,efpecially in China and Bengala, where 
~4cis often preferved greene y atid fenc into the Evropean Countryes. ~The black 
Ginger which hath Reed like Leaves eroweth in Spaine , Barbary, in checaubry 
wdflands andthe Acore:, andlikewile Hsspaniola neere Santo Domingo. » Ie flou- 
. tifheth in che hor rime of the Summer, and looléth his Leayes'in Winter; ° > 
vd bas . whan). 2% 02 siguord al 1 ys heed a seein) elas Died 
. ce Ranging Eid _ Taare MP; ttn Bee Be. we . 
eS Se y i@ORHTc J és wary f Z - <3 BT 2e? ew et we i#) 
Ginger heaceth and dryeth in the third degree. 
egpigeat 8 2todwA ya ‘The Signature and Vert nes, 
then fuffered rofettle for 
ugar mii 
in the fhell, and eaten 
ntly the Heites) -Betng 
