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Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 



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pot 



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ThcCorconbuih. 





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the Lord. Notwithftanding my fclf three yeares 

 part did low of the feed , which d id grow verie 

 frankely,but perifhed before it came to perfe&i- 

 on,by rcafon of the cold frofts that ouertookeit 

 in the time of flouring. 



K The Time. 



Cotton feed is fownein plowed fields in the 

 fpsing of the yeare, and reaped and cut downe in 

 harueftj euenas corne with vs ; and the ground 

 muft be tilled and fown new again the next yere, 

 and vfed in fuch fort as we do the tillage for corn 

 and grain . for it is a plant of one yeare, and peri- 

 flieth when it hath periled his fruit, as many 

 other plants do. 



*J Tie N Ames. 



Cotton is called in Greeke M* and iw»* 



in 



Latine,Ajf/*OT,and Goftpium^ after the Greeke ; in 

 {hopS)Ldnug0,Boml>ax,znd Cotum : in Italian,*?***- 

 bagia.'m Spanifh^^dw.in high Dutch^aiim* 

 ll ; in Englifli and French,Cotton, Borabaft; 

 and Bombace. 



TheopirAjisuylit.q. cap. p. hath made mention 

 hereof,but without a name * and hee faith it is a 



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any maruell if he took 

 rowing in countries 



wool! 



tfce.whcreas indeed it is rather an herb or fmall (hrulxand not 



b in this age (in which very many things come 

 to be better knowne than in times paft)the Cot- 

 ton or wooll hereof is called of the Germanes(as 

 — hauefaid) ©atlttT ■ ^ • -- •■ - 



Hit 



Wooll of 



tfius writeth thus j It is reported 

 are wool L which baue leaues like 



n£s forth a (hrub called Gofipio* or Xyl<m y and 

 'ma. It is (faith he) the plant that beareth that 



The 



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:n that is made thereof is called 

 the garments are made which 



tbe priefts of Egypt do weare. 



% Tie Temperature, 



The feed of Cotton (according to the opinion otSerAfit) is hot and moift,the wooll it felfe is 



not and dry. 



% TbeVertues. 



, Jk lu ° f Cotton is g 00 * 1 ag ain ft the cough and (hot t windedneffe : it alfo ftirreth vp Iuft of 

 rac oody by increafing naturall feed • wherein it furpaffeth. 



f Je oile prelfed out of the feed takes away f reck les/pot^and other 



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wooll burned ftanch the bleeding of wounds 

 c Armonicke,and is more reftriaiue than Bole it felfe. 



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 asc 



ne. 



hereof. 



commodities of the wooll of this plant were fuperflubus,common experience 

 1 benefit we receiue by it {hew them . So that it were impertinent to our hifto- 

 taking of Fuftian,BorabaneSjand many other things that are made of the wool 



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HAP, 



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OfDogs-bane* 



tfl The Kindes. 



T r j u e ?f l *° kmdes °f Dogs-bane : the one aclymbing or clambering plant ; the other an vp- 



ght fhrub. 



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