jT^f (jar den of plea) ant Flowers. 
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The Place. 
They growe naturally in the hot Countries of Barbary , and Ethiopia ; 
yet fome report them to be firft brought from Peru, a Prouince of the Weft 
Indies. Wee onely haue them for curiofity in our Gardens , and for the 
amorous afpeft or beauty of the fruit. 
The Time. 
"•^They flower in Iuly and Auguft, and their fruit is ripe in the middle or 
end of September for the moil parr. 
The Names. 
The firft is named diuerfly by diuers Authors ; for Lobel , Camerarius, 
and others, call them few* amor it. Dodonarus Aurea Mai a. Gefnerus firft 
andBauhinusalterhim,makeitto bcakindcof Solanum Pomiferum. An- 
guillan taketh it to be Lyct/pn ficum of Galen. Others thinke it to bee Glau- 
eiumoi Diofcoridcs. Thelaftis called MaUtsEthuptca parua , and by that 
title was firft fent vnto vs, as if the former were of the fame kinde and 
country. Wecallthem in Engliih, Apples of Loue,Loue- Apples, Golden 
Apples , or Amorous Apples , and all as much to one purpofe as another, 
more then for their beautifull afpcift. 
The Vertues. * 1 
l 1 : 
In the hot Countries where they naturally growe, they are much eaten 
of the people, to code and quench thcheate and thirftof their hot fto- 
maches. The Apples alfo boy led, or infufed in oyle in the iunne, is thought 
to be good to cure the itch,affurcdly it will allay the heate thereof. 
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Chap. XCVII. 
Digital*. Foxegloue. 
T Hereare three principali forts of Foxegloucs, a greater, a middle or meane 
fort, and a le(fer,and of them, three efpcciall colours, that is, purple, white, and 
yellow ; the common purple kindethaegrovveth abroad in the fields, Iieaue 
to his wilde habitation : and of the reft as followeth. 
1. Digital* maxima ferruginea. Dun coloured Foxegloues. 
The leaues of this Foxegloue are long and large,of a grayifh green colour, finely cut 
©rdented aboutthcedges,liketheteethof aline fawe ; among which commethvpa 
ftrong tall ftalke, which when it was full growne, and with ripe feede thereon,I haue 
meafured to be feuen foot high at theleaft,wheron grow an innumerable company (as 
Iraay fofay , inrefpe&of the aboundance) of flowers, nothing (o large as the com- 
mon purple kinde,thatgrowcth wilde euery where in ourowne Countrey, and of a 
kindeofbrowneoryellowilhdunne colour, with a long lippe at curry flower • after 
them come feede, like thecommon kinde, but infmaller heads : therootes are ftringie 
like the ordinary, but doe vfually perilh, or feldome abide after it hat h giuen feed. 
1. Digit alii maior flere carnea. Blufh coloured Foxegloues. 
This kinde of Foxeglo«es hath reafonable large leaues , yet not altogether fo large 
as 
