98 a The Gardenof pleafant Flowers. a 
sian — 
There is likewife another fort of thefe male Mandrakes, which I firft {aw at Canter. _ 
al bury, with my very louing and kinde friende lohn Tradefcante, in the garden of the — 
Lord Wotton, whofe gardiner he was at that time ; the leaues whereof were of a | 
mote grayifh greene colour, and fomewhat folded rogether, when asthe former kind _ 
that grew hantby it, was of the fame forme that is before defcribed, and-ordinary in 
allothers : but whether the apples were differing from thcother, [know not, nordid _ 
they remember thateuer it had borneany. ae 4 
 Mandragora famina. The female Mandrake. a 3 
The female Mandrake doth likewife put vp many leaues together, from the head of | 
the roote, but they arenothing fo large, and are of a darker greene colour, narrower _ 
alfo and fhining, more crumpled, and of a ftronger fent : the flowers are many,tifing — 
vp in the middle of the leaucs; vpen fender ftalkes, as in the male kind,but of a blew. 
if purple colour, which turne into fmall round fruite or apples, andnotlonglikea _ 
e (as Clufius reporteth that {aw them naturally growing inSpaine) greeneatthe _ 
firft, and of a pale yellewifh colour, when they are fullripe; of amore pleafing, orif — 
you will, ofa leffeheady fentthen theapples.of the male, wherein is contained fuch — 
like feede,but fmaller and blacker : the rootes are like the former, blacke without and _ 
white within, and diuided in the fame manner as the male is, fometimes with more, 
and fometimes with fewer partsorbranches. = ee 
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~~ ciallyon Mount Garganus in Apulia. Clafius faith heefound the femaleia — 
many wet grounds of Spaine, as alfo in the borders of thofe medowes that _ 
lye neere vntoriuers and water courfes. . The maleis chetifhed in many — 
| ardens,for pleafureas well as for vfe: but the femaleas is faid,is both ve- _ 
‘te pprarejand farremoretenders! soy 8 ser atl ae a 
_ ‘The Maleflowreth in March, and the fruit is ripe in Tuly. The Femalejif — 
itbe'well preferued,flowreth not vntill Auguft,or September; forthatwith: — 
Mek. oll! SRE extraordinary cate,we neucr fee the fruitethereof ‘ineur gardens. ‘or 4 
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| Mandragoras masis called slows, asthe Famineis called nizer, which tities — 
- 9. of blacke and white, arereferred’y 
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; rredvato thecolour of the leaues : the fea 
0) < tral is called alfo Thridacias from the likeneffe of ‘Lettice whereuntothey 
= 0" fay informe it doth carry fomesimilitude. Diofcorides faith that in his tine 
oo thettale was called Morion;and both of thet Antimeliimand Circas. Wee 
on. “call them in Englifh, The ‘male, and the female Mandtake, 99" 
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apheaar de oT eso VEL ae Shao, Songs 26 17 7. onl nag 
60>. ‘The leaues havea cooling ‘anddrying qualitic, fitfor the oyntment Pe 
ie or tlh inus. Lemnius | i iL hi : . vin his He bh: il tothe Bible, of 2 = oF ! 
_ <=" Paulus Agineta, and others alfoido declarejthey conduce much to the coos 
