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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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mod Writers, and in Chops called by the name of Terra, merita,and Curcuma: yet 

 Croat* Indicus, and we in Englifli call it, Turmericke. 



m 7 he Temperature and ' Virtues. 



< This root is certainely hot in the third degree, and hath a qualitie to open obftru&ions and it 



is vfed with good fuccefle in medicines againft the yellow Iaundife, and ; *" " s 



pers of the liucr and fpleene. 



gain ft 



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hap. 28. OfZedoarie. 





Edoarie is alfo a root growing naturally in the 

 woods of Malaver about Calecutand Cana- 

 nor in the Indies^the leaues thereof are larger 

 than Ginger, and much like them ; the root is alfo 

 as large, but confifting of parts of different figures, 

 fome long and fmall, others round ; their colour is 

 white, and oft times brownifh on the infide, and 

 they hauemany fibres comming out of them, but 

 they are taken away together with the outward 

 rinde before they come to vs. Thefe roots haue a ft 

 vngratefull tafte. 



$ Zerumbethjftue Ze 



Round Zedoarie. 



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foroewh 





hereg 



Zertmbetb , and mate them different, whenas indeed they are but parts of the fame root as S/ 



fes and Scrap 



Kjiuicen 



ta: but that is not fo s for he faith, W^^^^^^^^^w^,^. It is a Aromatic^ ami 

 therefor rTiii»fi»lif miv^ Jnnintm.n. ....k^i. 1 ._ _. -r < ' . \ r an fY?nw««e, and 



* ~ t - * — *** *•" «*i.i^waj xi nt muuiu imue laia, i nat it was 



put into ointments for the fmells fake, which in this is no waies gratefull,but rather the colli. 



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ff The Temperature and Vermes. 



flatulencies, and fattens by 

 1 fmell which Garlirlo* On 



qualitie. It alfo diffipates and amends the vr. 4%WJt 



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asalfothepaineofthe ftomacke. 

 It kils ail forts of wormes, and 

 tagiousdifeafes. £ 



the 



fed in Antidotes againft the plague, and fuch 



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h a p. 25). Of %ujkes. 



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fh£ for ,f I n n l^v S?£ y °, U m£h an accurate diftin ^^nand enumeration of R* 



Sefo f ^in'TTr t tcd ;°« s f°y°^borious to me,and beneficial to neither. 

 Therefore I will onely defenbe and reckon vp the chiefe and more nn^™^ „f ,hrm. 



th the moftvfuall and common. $ 



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Anovvne that I (hall not need to fpend mnch time about the defection thereof 



and &S^l^fS*fe^ Pjanres « ; *»«* 



Water-Rufh 



fmoorb 



vcon P the P one £d nf T^™"' The11 "'* ° r fl ° UrC breake * h f ™ h * "»Ie beneath the top, 

 conta tdZtl 0f fJ he t ? U ?'^ 1 ? T" Htde fll ° rC ftems ]ike Gra P e clufters, wherein 5s 

 X a^^ ^T P° inr - The roots be flenSerand full of togs, 



^^andr/^/^wbeforehim^mrmethatthe roots of the Ruflidocdieeueryyear^and that 



itgroweth 



