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Flare duplici. 
c Tbe(jardertof plea) ant Flowers. 
flicking to the inward pulpe : the roote is not very great, but full of firings , and 
quickly perilheth with the firftfrofts. 
a,. Stramonium minus fort geminato purpurante. 
The fmall double flowred purple Thorne- Apple. 
In the flower of this plant, confifteth the chiefeft difference from the former,which 
is as large as the laft , pointed into more homes or corners, and beareth two flowers, 
(landing in one huske, one ofehemrifing out from the middle of the other, likevnto 
thofc kindes of Cowflips and Oxelips, called double, or Hofe in hofe , before deferi- 
bed, which are of a pale purplifh colour on the outfide, and almoft white within : the 
fruit is round like the laft , and beareth fuch like feede , fo that vntill it bee in flower, 
their difference can hardly bee difeerned : this is more tender then the laft , although 
euen it is fo tender, that it feldome beareth ripe feede with vs. 
Sometimes (for I think it is not another kind) the flower will haue as it were double 
rowes of leaues, clofe fet together, and not confiding of two, rifing fo diftindtly one 
about another. 
ThePlace. 
All thefe kindes haue been brought or fent vs out of Turkie and Egypt; 
but Garcias, and Chriftopherus Acofta,with others, affirme that they grow 
intheEaft Indies. The Idler kindes are very rare with vs, bccaufe they fel- 
dome come to maturity 5 and therefore we are ftill to feeke of newfeedeto 
fowe. The greater kindes are plentifull enough in our Gardens , and will 
well abide, and giue ripe fruit. 
The Time. 
The fmaller kindes flower later then the greater - and therefore their 
fruit are the fooher fpoiled with the cold ayres, dewes, andfrofts, that 
come at the latter end ofthe yeare : but the greater kinds neuer mille lightly 
to ripen. 
The Names. 
Both the greater and fmaller kindes are generally called Stramonium , 
Stramonia , Pomum fpinofum , and Datura. Bauhinus vpon Matthiolus his 
ComentariesonDiofcorides,callethit Solanum fetidum fpinofum. Some 
learned men haue referred it to Nux Metel, of the Arabian Authors. Wee 
call them generally in Englilh, Thorne-Applcs, and diftinguifh them by 
theirtitles of greater and leffer, fingle and double. 
ThcVertucs. 
The Eaftlndianlafciuious women performe ftrange adts with thefeed(of 
the fmaller kinde, aslfuppofe, or it maybe of either) giuing it their huf- 
bands to drinke. The whole plant, but efpecially the feed, is of a very cold 
and foporiferous quality procuring fleep and diftradtion offenfes. A few 
of the feeds fteeped and giuen in drinke, will caufc them that take it to feem 
ftarkedrunkeordeaddrunke, which fit will withinafew houres wearea- 
way, and they recouer their fenfes againe , as a drunken man ray fed after 
fleep from his wine. It may therefore (in my opinion) be of fafe and good 
vfe to one,that is to haue a legge or an arme cut off,orto be cut for the ftonc, 
orfomeother fuch like cure to be performed, to take away the fenfe of paine 
for the time of doing it ; otherwif 1 1 hold it not fit to be vfed without great 
caution. But the greene lea uesof the greater kindes (as alfo ofthe leffer, but 
that with vs they are not fo plentifull) are by tryed experience, found to be 
excellent good for any fealded or burned part , as alfo co take away any hoc 
inflammations, being made vp into a falue or ointment with fuet,waxe,and 
joflin,&c. or with Axungia, that is. Hogs larde. 
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