I_yl B. 2. 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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of bis own nature 5 but the Indians becaufe they fee that our merchants note the beftTur- 



rr L .r„x. . .^ ._■ .. .. vvryth or els lightly bruifc 



■ummy ot nisown nature 5 uui me iuuirfu>uci<tuic tuey lee mac our mere 

 itb by the gummtneflc,are wont before they gather the fame,either to w 

 hem,thac the ftp or liquor may iflue outjwhich root being once hardned, 



out 



reft to fell ata greater price. Itis likewife made white, as the fame Author (heweth, being dried 

 in the Sun ; for if it be dried in the fhadow it waxcth blacke , which notwithstanding may be as 

 good as the white which is dried in the Sun. 



7nrbith Alexandrinum officitiarum. 



Tuiptum, or Turbith of the fh°ps.hfev!UlO¥t1S 



ftsr 





row 





IF 



'pah is is the true Turbith 



that the wafli or water of the fea may come to it, 

 but neere aboutjand that for two or three miles in 

 vntilled grounds, rather moift than dry. It is 

 found in Cambaya,Surrate, in the Me Dion,Ba- 

 zaim,and the places neere adioyning ; alfo in Gu- 

 zarate.where it groweth plentiful!y,from whence 

 great aboundance of it is brought into Per (7a, A- 

 rabia, Afia the Ieue, and alfo into Portingall and 

 other parts of Europejbut that is preferred which 

 groweth in Cambaia. 



% The Names. 



» % : 



It is called of the Arabians.Perfians^ Turks, 



turbith : and in GuzitAta^Barcaman .- in the Pro- 

 vince Canara, in which is the city Gba, Tiguar : 

 likewife in Europe the Learned call it diuerfly 

 according to their feuerall fancies , which hath 

 bred fundry controuerfies, as it hath fallen out as 

 well in Hermodaayls as in Turbith j the v r e and 

 pofleffion of which we cannot feem to want ; but 

 which plant is the true Turbith wee baiie great 

 caufe to doubt. Seme haue thought our Trifohum 

 marimr»,defcribed in the former chapter, to bee 

 the true Turbith .-others haue fuppoied it to bee 

 one of the Tithymales,but which kind they know 

 not. Gmllandiftus faith,thar the root of T/MvW„, 



diu^ 



this name Turbith the Sfc^?„^^ TOdw ^' fohw ^ dte »figMfi«tions%,,c 



uroicn i tney leem to interpret to be any milk v root which dorh ftmnalw n,u nfl a ' 



root doth 



:ions,which hath troubled 

 briefly to fetdowne mine 



efpecially 



opinion, not varying 

 root o f Scam mon ie r 



what 



iudgementof men of great 



of Scatnmony which 2^i,llT, mci0t0tbinkc is ' fbr that I haue rakenvp the roots 

 ^iS^^SSSS^- C ° mpared them With thC r ° 0tS ° f T » rbi ^etweene 



sin his notes vpon (?4w*teftin*es) they vfe the roors of That 



3rOU2hthirhpr.anfl ricff»nrn;«*.nrf!i»^k. l . ../-"• 



fi 



Clufu 



root or myce may haue fom " * 



fecultie. 



* 



Indian 



0t t7 lfe ^ygiueitwi 



U The Temperature and Vertues. 



S 



■ 



e purging 



Uefi 



adde 



• 



^ P ^^ 



lcft *ebody with JbcW^^t^*H¥ Almoi * d V» Almonds thcmfeIues,or fagar, 



vie nereotfhould pine and fall away. Others temper it with Dates, fwece 



Mm % Almonds, 



