378 The (jar den of pleafant Flowers. 
There is hkewife another fort of thefe male Mandrakes, which I firft faw at Canter- 
bury, with my very louing and kinde t riende Iohn Tradefcantc, in the garden of the 
Lord Wotton, whofegardinerhe was at that time • the leaucs whereof were of a 
more gray ifli greene colour, and fomewhat folded together, when as the former kind 
that grew hard by it, was of the fame forme that is before deferibed, and ordinary in 
all others : but whether the apples were differing from theother, I know not, nor did 
they remember thatcuer it had borncany. 
Mtndngoras f*mint. The female Mandrake. 
The female Mandrake doth likewife put vp many leaues together, from the head of 
theroote, but they are nothing fo large, and are of a darker greene colour, narrower 
alfo and (liining, more crumpled, and of a ftronger lent : the flowers are many,rifing 
vp in the middle of the leaues, vpan flender ftalkes, at in he male kind, but of a blew- 
id) purple colour, which turne into fmall round f ruite ;r apples, and not long like a 
pearc (as Clufius reporteth that faw them naturally growing in Spaine) greene at the 
firft, andof apaleyellewifhcolour,whentheyarefullripe ; of a more pleafing, or if 
you will, of a lefle heady fent then the apples of themale, wherein is contained fuch 
like feede,but fmaller and blacker : the rootes are like the former, blacke without and 
white within, and diuided in the fame manner as the male is, fometimes with more, 
and fometimes with fewer parts or branches. 
The Place. 
They grow in many places of Italic, as Matthiolus reporteth, but cfpe- 
ciallyon Mount Garganus in Apulia. Clufius faith hec found the female in 
many wet grounds of Spaine, as alfo in the borders ofrhofe medowes that 
lyeneerevntoriuers and water courfes. The male is cheiifhed in many 
Gardens, for pleafureas well as for vfc s but the female as is faid,is both ve- 
ry rare, and farremoretender. 
TheTime. 
The Male flowreth in March, and the fruit is ripe in Iuly. The Female, if 
it be well preferued,flowreth not vntill Auguft,or September; fo that with- 
out extraordinary care, we neuer fee the fruitethereof in ourgardens. 
The Names. 
MunlrsgorM m<ti is called tlbttt, as the Ftmir.i is called niger, which titles 
of blacke and white, are referred vnto thecolourof theleaues : the fe- 
male is called alfo tbridtcmSxom the likenefleof Lettice,whereuntothey 
fay in forme it doth carry fome fimilitude.Diofcerides faith,that in his time 
the male was called Merten, and both of them JntimeUm, znd Ctrctt. Wee 
call them in Engliih, The male, and the female Mandrake. 
TheVcrtues. 
The leaues haue a cooling and drying qualitie, fit for the oy ntment 
fuletn, wherein it is put. But the Apples haue a foporiferous propertie, as 
Lcuinus Lemnius maketh mention in his Herball to the Bible, of an expe- 
riment of his owne. Befides, as Diofcorides firft, and then Serapio, Auicen, 
Paulus vEginera, andothers alfo do declare,thev conduce much to thecoo- 
Iingand cleanfing of an hot matrix. And it is probable,that Rachel know- 
ing that they might be profitable for her hot and dry body, was the more 
earned: with Leah for her Sonne Rubens Apples, as it is fet downe Genrfis 
^o.ver/e 14 . The ftrong fent of thefe apples is remembred alfo, Cant.-j. 13 . 
althoughfome would diuertthe figniScation of the Hebrew word,D’srm, 
vnto 
