the Paradife of Plants. 605 
iotelsid Dilesles from halfeadvest tod damin powder, and the 
seas uel batche, Weekiral oeeak ok THis hdl ee 
blacker, or brewner, for che yedow is bue the Sap asit were, che former being ina 
manner all Heart, yet it is all firm, hard, clofe, and heavy, fo that it will fink in 
water more than Ebony, It is not {0 good for bor and dry bodies, asitis in cohd and 
and therefore for hot difeafes ufe the more Water yand the leffe Wood, and 
moift, 
for cold griefs, more Wood and lefs Water. 
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CHAP. CCCXXvi—l. — 
Of China, 
The Names. 
I: called i ia Latine (for Greek. name it never had dee) China, becanfe the 
Root thereof was firt brought from China, which isa Country of the Oriew 
tall Indies , and therefore aifo it 1s, chat it is called China Radix, or (Chines Radix; 
in Eoglith, as in divers other Languages it is called China, bat “che Chinefes call ig 
Lampatan,the Arabians and Per hetiale noplachina. — 
ep gt are as Te Chin Roa : 
2. Baftard China. 
The Ferme. 
The Chine up with many prickly Branches, of a reafonable radi 
nee, like unto Sar/a paridia, or the eekly Bindweed, winding it felf about Trees, 
and hath divers Leaves growing on like unto broad Plantane Leaves; what 
Flower or Seed it beareth, I finde not mentioned by any. The Root is like tothe 
- poot of a great Reed, fometiann Satalh, onmeees sind, at. Seon, but bun- 
ched and knotty, reddith for the mott part on the out-fide, or fomes 
‘times a fittle reddith on the in-fide: the bead nda, ome igh: 
ty, frefh and not worm-caten, and without any caite. aoe — : 
econo : a Py 
th not China, M, Coe. yanganor, “mer, other 
aeol | wri mei ming, ‘te, 
ec tytn a CW 
| ; The Temperaiare. 3 
"Iris immodertely bt, and pte ine 
