380 "The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



The Place. 



They growe naturally in the hot Countries of Barbary, and Ethiopia ; 

 yet fome report them to be firft brought from Peru, a Prouince of the Weft 

 Indies. Wee onely haue them for curiofity in our Gardens, and for the 

 amorous afpecl: or beauty of the fruit. 



The Time. 



They flower in luly and Auguft, and their fruit is ripe in the middle or 

 end of September for the moft part. 



The Names. 



The firft is named diuerfly by diuers Authors; for Lobel, Camerarius, 

 and others, call them Poma amoris. Dodonasus Aurea Mala. Gefnerus firft, 

 and Bauhinus after him, make it to be a kinde of Solanum Pomiferum. An- 

 guillara taketh it to be Lycoperjicum of Galen. Others thinke it to bee Glau- 

 clum of Diofcorides. The lart is called Mala Mthiopica parua, and by that 

 title was firft fent vnto vs, as if the former were of the fame kinde and 

 country. We call them in Englifh, Apples of Loue, Loue- Apples, Golden 

 Apples, or Amorous Apples, and all as much to one purpofe as another, 

 more then for their beautifull afpect. 



The Vertues. 



In the hot Countries where they naturally growe, they are much eaten 

 of the people, to coole and quench the heate and thirft of their hot fto- 

 maches. The Apples alfo boyled, or infufed in oyle in the funne, is thought 

 to be good to cure the itch, afluredly it will allay the heate thereof. 



CHAP. XCVII. 

 Digitalis. Foxegloue. 



THere are three principall forts of Foxegloues, a greater, a middle or meane 

 fort, and a leffer, and of them, three efpeciall colours, that is, purple, white, and 

 yellow ; the common purple kinde that groweth abroad in the fields, I leaue 

 to his wilde habitation : and of the reft as followeth. 



1 . Digitalis maxima ferruginea. Dun coloured Foxegloues. 



The leaues of this Foxegloue are long and large, of a grayifh green colour, finely cut 

 or dented about the edges, like the teeth of a fine fawe ; among which commeth vp a 

 ftrong tall ftalke, which when it was full growne, and with ripe feede thereon, I haue 

 meafured to be feuen foot high at the leaft, whereon grow an innumerable company (as 

 I may fo fay, in refpecl: of the aboundance) of flowers, nothing fo large as the com- 

 mon purple kinde, that groweth wilde euery where in our owne Countrey, and of a 

 kinde of browne or yellowifh dunne colour, with a long lippe at euery flower ; after 

 them come feede, like the common kinde, but in fmaller heads : the rootes are ftringie 

 like the ordinary, but doe vfually perim, or feldome abide after it hath giuen feed. 



2. Digitalis maior Jtore carneo. Blum coloured Foxegloues. 



This kinde of Foxegloues hath reafonable large leaues, yet not altogether fo large 



as 



