Lib. 2. 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



34-', 



JEthi 



Apples of ^Ethiopia 



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^V* 



The fruit is round, and bunched withvneuett 

 lobes or bankes lefler than the golden Apple,of 

 colour red> and of a firmeand follid fu^uanee $ 

 wherein are contained fmall flat feeds. The root 

 isfmallandrhreddy. 



€]• The Place. 



The feeds of this plant haue beene brought 

 vntovsoutof Spaine^ndalfofent into France 



andFlaunders:but to what perfection it hath 

 come vnto in thofe paits I am ignorant ; but 



. 



Winter 



iEth 



tookc his name. 



^y The Time. 



This plant muft be fowneas Muske-melons, 

 and at the fame time. They floure in Iuly, and 

 the fruit is ripe in September. 



«f The Names. 



ood 



iEthiop 



%Mthl 



hath been thought to be Malmathalla. $ This is 

 the Solatium Tomiferum of LoM and others ♦ by 

 which name our Author alto formerly had it- in 

 the fiftieth chapter of the former edition. $ 



The Nature. 



re agree th with the Apple of 



1T 



Loue. 



Thef< 



^f The Vet tuts. 



can reade of-onely they are vfed for a fauce and 

 fcruice vnto rich mens tables to be eaten, being 



fir ft boiled in the broth of fat flefh with pepper and fait, and haue a lelfehurtfull juyce than either 



mad Apples or golden Apples. 





hap. 47. Of*fhornie <iApples 



«g TheDefcriftion. 



1 I 'He ftalkes of Thorny.apples are oftentimes abouea cubit and a halfe high, feldome 



J^ higher, an inch thickc, vpright and ftraight, hauing very few branches, fometimes 



none at all, but one vpright ftemme j whereupon doe grow leaues fmooth and eucn, 



utt c or nothing indented about the edges, longer and broader than the leaues of Nightfhade, or 



Withwindethat 



, —- „,^ u«u.lj ui me great vviuwinaernac rampetn in Hedges ; duc aitogetner greater 



th < "•??!? l ^ e moutn > fli»tpe cornered at the brimmes,with certaine white chiuesor threds in 



fmelled 



out r it .™ raetl1 V P round fruit full of fliort and blunt prickles of the bignefTc of a green Wall- 

 a.1\™ " l l** ^ e bi ggeft, in which are the feedsof the bignelTe of tares or of the feed of Man- 

 kcs ana or the fame forme. The herbe it felfe is of a ftronff fauor. and Anth ftnfk rK* h**A ™a 



caufeth d 



: • *««-hjwi i» imaiiauu uueuuy. 



the rishr h«° 1S an P[ he f ki T nde hereof altogether greater than the former, whofe feeds I receiued of 

 "beralirlTiK a u rd Ed »« rdz ° ttch 5 which he brought from Conftantinople, and of his 



a PPle that I t a ?? r? V . pon me ' as aIfo raan y other rare and ftran § e feeds jand it is that Thorn- 

 •well in h 1 P "[ ed trough this land, whereof at this prefent I haue greaevfe in Surgery 5 



_ '■"'nOUrningS and fca diners. 35 alfn In uirn^nran^ «»i; Bn -..i — -n & j r...l, t;u 





Thevvh 

 greene 



» manner oS 4 haUttCab0ue «** ground diuideth it felfe into fundry branches or armes 



•erotanhedgetreej whereupon are placed many great leaues cut and indented deepely 



