the Paradife of Plants. 567 : 
death by the weight of che dying Elephant falling upon him, after that he had rea 
ceived his mortall wound from him, and that both their bloods mingled together 
was the truc Saxfuis Draconis, but cértainly it was fo called from the bloody co- 
Jour that itis of, being nothing elfe buca meer Guai. It is called in Englith Draé 
_gons tears, and Dragons blood. 
The Formé. 
The Dragon Tree groweth not like a Sugar-loaf,as I faid in my former Book,but 
rifeth as high as thePineTree,with a great body & tagged bark,ful of chaps & clifts 
bearing 8, or 9, great Arms equally fpreading from the trunk, bare for a cubits 
length, and then thrafting forth three or four more leffer branches, yet as thick as 
ones arm, bearing onely at the tops of them divers long and narrow Leaves, joyn= 
edtogecher at the bottom, and encompaffing another, as thofe of the Flower-de~ 
Lwce do, each of them being a cubit in length, and an inch in breadth, but growing 
narrower and narrower towards the top, tillitbe pointed with the thick middle 
rib, that ruanech chrough che fame,reddith about the edges, and tharp like che Iris 
Leaves, abiding alwayes green,as moft of the trees in thofe partsdo ; from among 
theLeaves at th - heads come forth certain foor-ftalks about a foot long, divided in- 
to little branches, whereon do grow at divers {paces (Ifappofe, firft Flowers, ~ 
et not obferved) divers frmits or berries in little clufters,each of them like un- 
toa {mall Cherry, of a fowrith or tart taft, and of a yellowith colour when they 
are ripe, with a ftone and kernel{ within them very like unto a Cherry- ftone : Out 
of this tree, being flit or bored,¢ometh forth a thick dark red Gum or Rofin,which 
hardeneth quickly, and will mele ac the fire, and flamealfo, ifitbe cat therein 
which being bruifed, theweth a very orient red crimfon,or bloody colour,the Wood 
of the trunk is fo hard and firm,that it will {carcely admit cutting, bus the yonger 
branches are not fo hard, 
3 . The Places and Time. 
This Tree groweth both in the Canary /flands and in that of Adadera,and in Brae 
Pl allo where it groweth to be ofa goodly ftature. It flourifheth and grows gress 
+ Smeg 
_ TheTemperatut. eee 
Sanguis Draconis, or the Gum of the Dvagon-eree, is in all probability ‘¢e/d in the 
trend! degree, and dry in the third, and is very aftringent. — i— 
The Signature and Vertues. ese tt: SE 
by Sigsatwre,according to the opinion 
ae it thereby,there being hardly 
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etha 
- @ Foil under their precious Stones, for their greater Jw/fre, and the other 
rike 2 crim/on colour into Glafs for »Vindowes, of the like. Though @ 
be commended, yet no doubt in the natural places, or where it gros 
and fruit might be applyed for fuch like Difeafes as the Gum is to, 
