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which is nourifhed withtheSalt-water; and whenthe lide «bbeth, you fhall | 
(ce the Kocts, as it were, bare without Bark (being, asitfeemeth, corroded by |. 
the Salt) and grafping the Sands like a Crab, which neve schelels bearech.a 
Fruit. Le were goodto try fome hard Trees, asa SctviceeTrecor Fit. Tree, 
by fetting chem within the Sands. 
aThete be of Plants which they ufe for Garments, thefe thar follow, 
Hemp, Flax, Cotton, Nettles, (whereof they make Nertle cloth) Sericum, which} 
isa prowing Silk; they make alfo Cables of the Barkof Lime-Trees, It isthe} 
Statk that maketh ‘the Filaceous matter commonly, and fometimes the Donn | 
that groweih above. 
Tney have in fome Countreys, a Plant of a Rofie-colour, which tise 
inthe Night, opencthin the Morning, and openeth wiae at Noon ; which the 
Inhabitants of thofe Countreys fay, isa Plant that fleepeth. Therebe Sleep- f 
ersenough then; for almoft all Flowers dothe like. 
Some Plants there are, but rare, that havea Moffie or Downy Root, _and | 
‘likewife that have anumber of Threds like Beards, as CMandrakes whereofft 
Witches and Impoffors make an ugly Image, giving irthe formof a faceatthe | 
top of the Roor, and leave thofe firings to make abroad Beard downto the | 
foot. Alfothere isa kindeof Nardin Creet (being a kinde ot Phu) thathath } 
a Roothairy, hkeanough-footed Doves foot. Soas you may fec, there are 
of Roots, Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Efuafuge Roots. And, J takeit, inthe f 
Bulbous, the Sap hattaerh moftto the Air and Sun: Inthe Fibrow, the Sap des} | 
lighteth more in the Earth, and therefore putteth downward ; and the Hir- | 
fureisa middle between both, that befides the putting forth aw aati and | 
downwards, putreth forth in round. 
There are fome J ears of Trees, which are kembed from he Beards off 
Goats; for when the Goats bite and crop them, efpecially in the Mornings, | 
the Dew being on, the Tear cometh forth, and: hangeth upon their Beards; 
Of this fort isfome kinde of Ladanum. All 
The irrigation of the Plane-tree by Wine, is reported by the jo ntl | 
to make it fruitful. It wouldbe tryed likewife with Roots; for upon Serdall 
it worketh no great effec. I 
The way tocarry Foreign Roots, a long way, isto veffel them clole j in 
Earthen veffels; but if the Veflels be not very great, you muft make Conse 
holes in the bottom, to give fome refrefhment to the Roots; which autisin 7. 
wife (as it feemeth) will decay, and fuffocate. | 
The ancient Cinnamon, was, of all other Plants, while it grew, the dryetts| 
and thofe things which are known to comfort other Plants, did make } 
that-more fteril; for in fhowers it ptofpered worft : It grew alfo amongte) 
Bufhes of other kindes, where commonly Plants do not thrive, neither did| 
itlove the Sun. There might be one caule of all thofe effe&s , namely,” 
the {paring nourifhment, which that Plant required. - Quere, bow fac | 
CafSia, which is now the fubftitute of Cimmamon , doth participate of thefe | 
things, — joel] 
_ Itisreported ‘bi one of the cAncients,that Cafe, when itis gathered, i Soh 
put into the Skins of Beafts newly fleyed; and that the Skins corrupting, 
land breeding Worms, the Worms.do devour the Pith and Matrow of it 1 
and fo. make ithollow, but meddle not with the Pathe becaule to them it ais 
bitter. — we 
There were in ancient time, Vines of far greater Bodies, then wenn ow | 
any 5 fortherehave been Cups made of them, andan Image of Fupicer. Bui 
ir islike they were wilde Vines; for the Vines that they ufefor Wine, ar 
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