Lib. z. 



Of the Hiiloric of Plants. 



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Here is befides the former ones a certaine wilde Gourd : this is like the garden Gourd 

 in clyraing ftalkyrlafping tcndrels^and fof t leaucs^and as it were downy-all and eucry 

 one of which things being far leffe : this alfoclymbeth vpon arbours and banqueting 

 houles : tne fruit reprcfenteth the great bellied Gourd 3 and thofe that be like vnto bottles in form 

 but in bignefTe it is very far infer ior,for it is fmall, and fcarce fo great as an ordinarie Quince, and 

 may be held within the compafle of a mans hand:the outward rinde at the firft is green, afterward 

 it is as hard as woodland of the colour thereof: the inner pulp is moift and very full of juice, wher- 

 !U lies rhc fecd.The whole is as bitter as Coloquintida,which hath made fo many errors,one efpe- 

 cially,in taking the fruit Coloquintida for the wilde Gourd. 



2 The fecond wilde Gourd hath likewifc many trailing branches and clafping tendrels wher- 

 *ith it takcth hold of fuch things as be neere vntd it : the leaues be broad,deepc!y cut into diuers 



i thofe of the Vine,foft and very downy, whereby it is cfpecially knowne to be one of 



to a round forme,flat on the top like the head o r a Muihrome,whereof it tookc his fyr-narne. 



^ The Place. 



They grow ofthcmfelues wilde in hot regions :thcy neuer come toperfcaioncf npcnel 

 tbcfc cold countries. 



The time anfwereth thofe of the garden. ,KTI 



Gourd is called in Greeke. k.m*»5. «y* i inLatin^CucuriitafyheJirufiimldc G 









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growing 



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neither is it hollow,but full of juice,and by reafon of the extreme bitternclTe off 



raacke. 



Somealfo there be that take this for Coloauintida.but thevareferd«*rt*iiii»4 . 



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is the wilde CitrullCuca 



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% 7 he 7 emftriture ; 



:hey arc far decerned ; for Colocyntb 

 the chapter of Cicruls, 



nd dry as Coloquintida,oamcly in the fecond dcgrei 



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a.,. -- - - > - » »pen$ and fcoutfcs the (topped paflages of" 



trcoody: »t alio purgeth downwards as do wilde Melons. ** *™ 



Moreouer, the Wine which hath continued all night in this Gourd likewifc purecth tbe-bcllv 



mrghtil^bringine forth cholericke and flefrmaticIrtfhumfYrc ° anm* ' 



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