

The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 431 



Balau/lium to be the flower of both tame and wilde kinde : but properly, as 

 I take it, Cytinus is the cup wherein the Hower as well of the tame as wilde 

 kinde doth Itand ; tor vnto the liinilitude of them, both the flowers of AJa- 

 rum, and the feedc veflels of Hyofciamus are compared and refemblcd, and 

 not vnto the whole flower : the barke or rinde <>t the fruit is called of diuers 

 SiJion, and in the Apothecaries (hops PjiJium^ and cortex Granatorum. The 

 wilde kinde is called Mains Punlca Jilueftrh : In Englilh, The wilde Pome- 

 granet tree ; the flower thereof is properly called Ealaujlium. The lefler kind 

 is vfually called Balaujliiim Rorntinum, as the greater is called Creticum and 

 Cyprinum, becaufe they growe in Candy and Cyprus. 



The Vertucs. 



The vfc of all thefe Pomegranets is very much in Phyficke, to coole and 

 binde all fluxibility both of body and humours : they are alfo of fingular 

 effect in all vlcers of the mouth, and other parts of the body, both of man 

 and woman. There is no part of them but is apply ed for fome of thefe re- 

 fpects. The rinde alfo of the Pomegranet is vfed of diuers in ftead of Gaules, 

 to make the beft fort of writing Inke, which is durable to the worlds end. 



CHAP. CXV. 



Amonum Plinij jfeu Pfeudocapfaum. 

 Tree Night (hade or the Winter Cherry tree. 



IHaue adioyned this plant, for the pleafurable beauty of the greene leaues, and red 

 berries. It groweth vp to be a yarcl or foure foote high at the moft, hauing a fmall 

 wooddy ftemme or ftocke, as bigge as ones ringer or thumbe, couered with a whi- 

 tifh greene barke, fet full of greene branches, and faire greene leaues, fomewhat vne- 

 uen fometimes on the edges, narrower then any Night (hade leaues, and very neare 

 refembling the leaues of the Capjfcum, or Ginny pepper, but fmaller and narrower, fal- 

 ling away in the Winter, and Ihooting frdh in the Spring of the yeare : the flowers 

 growe often two or three together, at the ioynts of the branches with the leaues, being 

 white, opening ftarre-fafhion, and fometimes turning themfelues backe, with a yel- 

 low pointell in the middle, very like vnto the flowers of Night (hade : after the flow- 

 ers are part, come forth in their ftead fmall greene buttons, which after turne to be 

 pleafant round red berries, of the bignefle of fmall Cherries when they are ripe, 

 which with vs vfually ripen not vntill the Winter, or about Chriftmas, wherein are 

 contained many fmall whitifh feede that are flat : all the whole plant, as well leaues 

 and flowers as feede, are without either fmell or tafte : the roote hath many yellowifh 

 firings and fibres annexed vnto it. 



The Place. 



The originall place hereof is not well knowne, but is thought to bee the 

 Weft Indies. It hath been planted of long time in moft of thefe Countries, 

 where it abideth reafonable well, fo that fome care bee had thereof in the 

 extreamity of the Winter. 



The Time. 



It flowrcth fometimes in lune, but vfually in luly and Auguft, and the 

 fruit is not ripe (as is faid) vntill the Winter. 



The 



