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% The Venues, 



aues,faith D iofimdes 5 being ftamped and laid vpon cold fwellingSjdoe waft 



nke in Cute to the weight of a dram againft the fluffing of the ton?, ™aa u • 



es,the birth,and the after-birth. 6 gs > and do b ™g 



They cure the head-ache being drunkewith wine; the juiceof the root dieefteth an^ 1 u 



if the feed be taken it procurcth vomit,which thing,faith Mmhiolus, the feed not onl ! nf a • ", > 



Bean Trefoile doth effed, but that alfo of the other. ' lccanotonl / linking 



the lime. 

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Of Iudas 'Tree. 





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Iudas Tree, 



^J The Definition. 





IVdas Tree is iikevrifc one of the hedge- 

 plantsjic groweth vpvntoatreeof arcafo- 

 nable bignefle, couered with a dark colou- 

 red barke, whereon grow many tough twig. 

 gy branches of abrowne colour, garnifted 

 with round leaucs like thofe of round Birth- 

 wort or Sow-bread, but harder, and of a dee- 

 per green colour : amongft which come forth 

 fmall figures like thofe of peafon>of a purple 

 colour mixed with red, which turn into long 

 flat cods prefled hard together,ofa tawny or 

 wan colour , wherein is contained fmall flat 

 feeds like the Lentill, or rather like the feed 

 of #^4,fa(luoned like a little kidney. The 



root is great and wooddy ♦ 



y The Place. 

 This fhrub is foundindiuersprouincesof 



Spain,in hedges, & among briers and bram- 

 bles ; the mountaines of Italy and the fields 

 of JLanguedoc are not without this flirufa : it 

 growes in my garden. 



% The Time. 



The floures come forth in the Spring,and 

 before the leaues : the fruit or cods be npeifl 



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fummer. 



«[[ The Names. 



It is commonly named in Latine,^" «* 



de: fome haue named it Sycomorus Qtbyco- 



more tree,and that becaufe the flours and cods hang down from the bigger branche$;but _th g 

 Sycomorc tree is like the fig tree in f ruit,and in leaues to the Mulberry tree .whereupon^ u ^ ^ 

 med.Others take it to be *m ofwhich T/mphraflus writeth thus • Cercts brmgetn torn rc 

 cod : Which words are all fo few , as that of this no certaintie can be gathered , , tor w 

 fhrubs that bring forth fruit in cods. The French men call it Guamier^s thoug ^J "^ « 

 VaginuUpx a little (heath : moft of the Spaniards name it Algorovo /<w,tbat isjtiij h*vj g j 

 /^.wildor fooli(h Cod:others,^4/^^r,for the brauenefle fake : it ™y beoiu nt he Elder 

 Judas tree,for that it is thought to be that whereon Iudas hanged htmfelfe, and not vyv 



tree,as it is vulgarly faid. 



The temperature and vertues of this fhrub are 

 be Actciafry adding falfly thornes vnto it,it is but a furmife 



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