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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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h a p • i j z i Of the Sjcomore Tree. 



Sycomorta. 



ThcSycomoreticc. 



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<fl ThcDefcripion. 



He Sycomdrc tree is of nb Tmall 

 An * height, being very like to the roulbe- 



rie tree in bignefle & rtiewr^as alfo in leafc: 

 the fruit is as great as a Fig, and of the 



famefaihion, very like in juyceandtaftc 

 tothcvvildc Fig,but fwectcr^and without 

 any graines or feeds within, which grow, 

 eth not forth of the tender boughes, but 

 out of the body and great old armes very 

 fruitfully : this tree hath in it plenty of 

 tailkie juycc,whicll fo foonc as any part is 

 broken or cut,doth ifliic forth. 



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plentifully in Caria and Rhodes, and in 

 fundry places of /Egypt, as at the great 

 Cayreor Alkaire,and in places thacdoe 

 not bring forth mwch wheat^n Which it is 

 anhclpe, and fufliccth in ftead of bread & 

 come where there is fcarfitie of viftuals. 

 fo/orwritcth, that bee Caw a plant of the 

 Sycomore tree like to thcwildc Fig tree, 

 fruit and all. 





«0 The Place. 



It bringeth forth fruit three or foure 

 times in one yeare, and oftner if it be (cra- 

 ped with an iron knife, or other like in- 

 strument. 





% Tie Names. , 

 ™»w>> of the Fie tree and 



C<r//i* nameth itbackeward mtorofya 



vGryptiapr Egyptian Mulbery tree. W 



•^j^iEgyptian 



-. .^ ^*^^tfuui.duiic,i«jaauoMuiDerry^igtree,wnichis the right Sy 



tne great Maple,as we haue faid in the chapter of Maple. 



The fruit is named in Greeke Sycomoron, and in Italian, Sjeomoro and Fico d'Egitto 



omorc tree, and not 







TJh Ttmp 



a j • e w ; fcUUIUIs: uccijaui nu marpacne in xcacai^as u&icn 



in taitejand is of temperature moift after a fort,and cold as be Mulberries 

 It is good,faith Diofcor ides Sax rhr h*»1f«r.hiir it U x*~~ th*r ;* ,^;^^^ ~ 

 blcfome to the ftomacke. 



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There iffueth forth of the barke of this tree in the beginning of the Spring, before the fruit an- r 



pcarcth a ihquour, which beeing taken vp with a fpdnge Tor a little woolfi, d rid made vn into fin^ Q 

 cakes.and kenr in van;* .*«..£;. mA nfc,...h -ilr^u ' ._j , J 7. '" 4ae . v P in t°nne 



mours. 



gallic pots : this mollifietb, clofeth wounds together, and diifoluctb gioffe 





ty putrifie. 



inwardly taken and outwardly applied againft the biting of ferpents, hardneffe of the O 



ie:and paineof the ftomacke proceeding of a cold caufc : this liquor doth very quick- 







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