the Hiftorie of Plants 



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Chap. ip. Of(juaiacumorIndian*Pocfytoood* 



Gua'uci Arbor is famuli. 



A branch of the Guaiacum tree 



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bot 



^ The Defcriftion. 



GVaiacum>which Tome call Lignum San r 

 cium : others , Lignum vit<c , is a well 



known wood,though of a tree vnknown, 

 or at lead not certainly knowne- for this fi- 

 gure which I here giue you out of ClufitujK&s 

 gotten, and the hiftory framed as you (h all 

 hear by his o.vn words, taken out of his Scho* 

 //^vponthe 21 Chapter of Menardus. About 

 thcbeginning(faith he)of the yeare i6c~ r 

 receiued from Peter Garret a branch of a A ^, v 

 long, which he writ was giuen him by a cer- 

 tain Surgeon lately returned from America, 

 for a branch of the tree Guaiacum: which if it 

 be a branch of the true Guaiacum, then hath 



Nicolas Monardus fleightly enough fet downe 



the hiftory of this tree. I thus defcribed the 

 branch that was fent me. 



This branch was a foot long, very writhen 

 and diftinguijfhed with many knots,fcarfeac 

 the lower end equalling the thickenefleof a 

 writing pen or goofe quil a hauing an hard and 

 yellowifh wood, and a wrinkeled barke of an 

 *fl>colour:at the vooer end it was diuided 





into (lender branches.wheroffome yet retai- 

 ned their leaues, and other fome the floures 

 and the rudiment of the fruit : the leaues, or 

 more truly the wings or foot-ftalkes of the 

 leaues grew on (lender branches one againft 

 another , each winged leafe hauing foure or 



oncagainft anorher,asin the Mafticke tree , and theft faJ r ri ?S A a a^T^Z COU P ,cs 

 many veins } which by reafon of their drinefleS . I obfen^ o u ' "F^SS* £? in § ul(M *"h 

 ftaiks nakcd.and only retaining the mH^a^ ?",^ 1 '' faII ° ff > Ieauin ? the it- 

 ches there gre* as it were f^lfi^^fc*^^? 1 bl " f* the knots °"PJ« bran- 

 iraiks/ome inch long.cach carrying a flou e not J?£ Pa fix,e, gh r, ten.or more flender foot- 



from the learned Apothccarie J n %ZZ(Vetl £'" "*" W ° °' ^ bl,t the mofl P«fca 



lowi 



™ U(J<tl[11 Monardus )many haue written mam, . : 7 * . w u & tlc t0 tne iRnorant. Of this 



Box,or calling it by fome othe name ^^£"^5* *« it is either Ebon«e,o kinS 

 or any other o & f the whole world Tel ibed t r hi A * F* ^ ° ftrce noc ^ in hefc R e ln/ 

 dm (hal be a new tree to vs : howeu Cr it be jr hi i ^ ™' ^ ^ thofe °^* difcouS fo 



tWflou^ Ck ;P mm J ° r u far ' and when "t vvooa is orv fal s L n I £"? ^ than Ebonie : Th « 

 he S 2 eI, °^ the which is followed by a roundln 8 ^ * °£* Ica ^ are fmal and hard : 



It 



Med lar. 



growes plentifully in the Ifles ofStnff, Bomingo, 



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of 



Another 



