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I) 24 Of the Hiftorie of Plant 



colour,round,light,and bittcr,couered with a threefold skin or film,wherin is to be? 

 das and diuers others report,the form of a dragon, hauing a long neck and gaping m **\ 

 or back armed with (harp prickles like the Porcupine ; with a long taile and four! f ° U " d S c 

 be difcerned : the figure of it we haue fet forth vnto you according to the greatncs th VC 7. eafic t0 

 our words and meaning may be the better vnderftood 5 and alfo the leafe of the tre h- v ecaufe 

 neffe,becaufe it is impo/Tible to be exprefled in the figure:the trunk or body of thtt^ • big * 

 with a tough bark,very thin and eafie to be opened or wounded with any fmalltool P rT ei A C0UCrC£i 

 which being fo wounded in the dog <Jays,bruifed or bored,yeelds forth drops of a thirl! nIt ]" mcnt J 

 of the name of the tree called Dragons tears,or Sanguis dracon ^Dragons bloud • diner Y T° Xl 

 ted whether the liquor or bloud were all one with Cimabarunf t%',aC*»u..* ' . s na . ue douD - 



otDtifi 



f Quickfi 1 uer) but the receiued opinion is,they differnot,by 

 orke the like effed. 



This tree groweth in an Ifland which the Portugal* call Madera,and in one of the Canary Ifl„ 



the fame prouince 



,by the Bifhop 



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^f The Time. 



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The time of his growing we haue touched in the defcription.whcre wee faid that it flourish 

 and groweth green all the yeare. 



^f The Names. 



The names haue been fufficicntly fpoken of in the defcription,and in their feuerall titles. 



^r The Nature and ' Venues. 

 A % TheSanguis Draconis which is thought to proceed from this tree,hath an a ftringenc faculty, 

 and is with good fuccefie vfed in the ouermuch flowing of the courfes,in fluxes, dyfenteries, fpi 

 ting of bloud,faftning loofe teetb,and fuch other affeds which require aftridion. 



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B S miths alf b vfe it to vernifh ouer their works, to giue them a fanguine colour, and keepe them 



fromrufh rj: 









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Chap, i 4 Z , Of the Sa/fafras or zJgue tree, 



I ^j T he V eftripion . 



very great 



twofold grofie rind,the vp 



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permoft of the colour of afhes,that next the wood of a tawny colour; on the top come forth 

 many goodly branches like thofe of the Palm tree,whereon grow green Ieaues fomwhat like thr r - 

 of the fig tree,of a fwcet fmell when they be greene,but much fweeter when they be dry,declim 

 to the fmell of fennel,with much fweetnefTe in taft : they are green Winter and Summer, neitt 

 bearing fruit nor floures,but is altogether barren as it is faid : the roots are grofle,conforroable to 

 the greatnefle of the tree,of a tawny colour.difperfing themfelues far abroad vnder the vpper cruit 

 of the earth,by means whereof they are often call down with mean blafts of wind. * The wood ot 

 the tree is very ftrong,hard,and brittle,it hath not fo ftrong & pleafant a fmell as that ot the root, 

 neither is it in fuch vfe. The Ieaues are of two forts,fome long and fmooth,and not fmpt about tnc 

 edges 5 other fome,and thofe chiefely on the end of the branches, are deepely gafhed in, as it were 

 diuided into three feuerall parts. I haue giuen the figure of a branch taken from a little trec,wnicn 

 grew in the garden of M r Wilmot at Bowjwho died fome few yeares ago 



^r The Place, 



This tree groweth in moft parts of the Weft Indies,fpecially about the cape of Florida, W«" 

 gandico,and Virginia,otherwife named Norembega. 



^ The Time. 



It fiourifhetli and keepeth green Winter and Summer, 



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