ai8 Of Shrubs. Part II. 
The Shrub grows wild : Yet the Natives cultivate it in 
Gardens with great Care and Induitry. For with the fcarlet 
Grains abovefaid, they paint and adorn themfelves. The 
Tin&ure alfo which they extract from them, called OreUa- 
na, they fell to the Portuges, and others which Trade with 
them. They likewife beat and make them up into Balls 
(a) Pifo. and Tablets, which they fend into all parts of Europe, (a) 
The fame Grains are fometimes mixed with C ha c a let, for 
(^)Ximmes t j ie grateful colour and taft which they give to it. (b) Of 
(c) Wormius the Barque of the Tree, they make Ropes, (c) 
A fmall Grain, in colour and fhape not much unlike that 
above-faid , and probably belonging to a Species of the 
fame Kind, is brought hither from the Barbados by the 
Name of NOTE A. Yet ufed by Deyers, made up in Cakes, 
for a Limon-colour. With whom, nothing is more ufual, 
than to alter the colours of their Ingredients, by the admix- 
ture of Salts, and other ways. 
BEIDEL OSSAR, . i. e. The Egg or Cod of the Ofar, a 
kind of Syriac Dogs-Bane fo called 3 Be id, being the Ara- 
u?Bdius° n ~ ^ lc ^- wor d (d) f° r an Egg- Accurately defenbed by Honor. 
Belhis. And by Wormius very well hgur'd. Yet Wormius 
in his Defcription, which he borrows of Alpinus, (with his 
Author) miriakes, in giving the Name to the Plant, which 
belongs only to this Egg or Cod. 'Tis (oft or skinny, with 
fome afperity. About four inches long, at the upper end 
fharp, and (now) hooked backward. Filled with a com- 
pany of fmall flat Seeds , enclofed in a fine and white 
Down. 
This Shrub grows near Alexandria, upon a Branch or 
COWormi- Arm of Nilus (e) called Calig. One Plant, at an Inciiion 
of the Barque, will yield no lefs than four pounds of Milk. 
Cf) Hon. A Drachm and half of this Milk, (f) will purge a Man to 
Beiius. Death. But ufed outwardly, is an excellent Remedy for the 
(g) MuC Itch, (g) 
Calceol. A COD3 Woo jj Seeds? of COXTON 
(b) Lacuna. SHRUB 3 called Xylon Herbaceum. Said (h) to have grown 
heretofore only in Mgyp 3 but now is fown, and grows 
abundantly in Greet, Sicily, and divers other Places in 
Europe. The Cod is trivalvous, almolt like to that of a 
Tulip, or the Peony. Upon the Seeds which are black Oval, 
and near as big as a Horfe-Bean, hang the greater!: part of 
the 
