Lib. 3. OftheHiftorieofPI. 



1515 



Itgrowethalfoat S.Crux and other places of Barbary, and alfo inliHiw^^T^r-- 

 nean tea, called Zance, about a day and nights failing with a mcanewinde from ?S ei Z r 

 Morea, where my feruantJ^ 



bodied plant 



greene 





«[ ThtTtmt. 



Winter and 



S«Tvv/„r itllft4 " din8 "*> muft te «*^^=as^<KS 



^ TheTJjtnes. 





Opuntitm . whereof he hath written./,*. 2 r.«. t7 . 



Fig tree. 



«*»4y> 



i nere is a certainc other delcribed for the Indftn Fig tree, by ThmhaflmM 4 which />/„v 



U The Temperature *nd yertucs. 



We haue no certainc inftrucHon from the Antients, of the temperature or faculty of this nlanr * 

 orofthcfruittbcreof:ncithcrhauewc any thing whereof to write of our oiikn^oi P rn * A 

 than that we haue heard reported of fuch asW eaten liberally o the fZ SS^&^S 

 their ynne to the colour of bloud , who at the firft fight thereof flood in w^otitohUfc 

 dunking it had beene bloud.whcreas it proued afterwtrds by experienced tc £ SX2 n' 

 aure or colour the vrine had taken from the juyceof the l$3i fctSEZIStiZ^ 



at all. 



nuance. 





good again ft 



fa 



$ Cochenele is eiuen alonc.and 



fuccefle I know not. $ 



pc 







- 





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ha?. 135. Of the arched Indian Figtree. 



* 



•J The Defcriftion. 



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nurareaoa admirable tree :is very grcai^ ftnigbe, and couered with a yellow barkc tending 



•I to tawny: the boughes and branches are many, very long, tough, and flexible, grow.ne very 



H. r°u S ,n ? ortf P" e >as doe the twigs of Oziars,and thofefo long and weake, that the ends 



thereof hang dome and touch the ground, where they take root and grow in fuch tort, thattbofe 



twi e s become erear tree, : and ^. K..W __ tbe , ike ^^ dQe ^^ ™°* 



hereof 

 doe 



found 



•nfwa againe foure or fine times according to the heigh t of the voice, to which it doth anfwenand 

 that fo plainely,that it cannot be known from the voice it felfc : the fuft or mother of this wood or 

 defart of trees is hard to bee knowne from tbe children, but by the greatnerteof the bSyTriuV* 



n Z mett vl* n u'l ' ! ? th ^ tn . aboi,t: v P° n the branches whereof grow leaues hard and wrinkled, 

 "ifliape like thofeof the Quince tree, greene aboue,andof a whitifh hoary colour vnderneath, 

 ^hereupon the Elephants delight to feedramong which Icaues come forth the fruit ofthebignefle 

 °r a mans thumb?, in fliape like a fraall Fig, but ofa fanguinc or bloudy coloured of a facet taft, 



Urn mm *» 



