The Cjarden of pleafant Flowers. 
The Names. 
This plant hath diucrs names ; for it is thought to be that kindc of 
mam that Plinie fetteth downe. Dodonaeus calleth it Pfeadccap ficum , for 
fomelikeneffe in the leafe and fruit vntothe {mattCapficnm or Ginnie Pep- 
per , although much vnlike in the tafte and property. Others doe call it 
Stnchnodtndrtn, that is, Soltnum arborcfcens , and wee in Englifh according 
thereunto, Tree Night (hade. But fome Latine affes corrupting the Latine 
word limemur») doe call it the Mumme tree. Dalechampius callcth it Sola- 
num Amcncum , feu Indicum, and faith the Spaniards call it in their tongue, 
Guiadas de las indixi, that is, Ceraf a Indiana, Indian Cherries, which if any 
would follow , I would not bee muchagainft it : but many Gentlewomen 
doe call them Winter Cherries , bccaufe the fruit is not throughly ripe vn- 
till Winter. 
ThcVertues. 
I finde no Phyficall property allotted vnto it, more then that byreafon 
of the infipidity, itisheldto be cooling. 
Chap. CXVI. 
Ficua Indica minor. Thefmallcr Indian Figgetrec. 
T His Indian Figge tree, if you will call it a tree (becaufe in our Country it is not 
fo,although it growethin the naturali hot Countries from a wooddy ftemme 
or body into leaues)is a plant confiding only ofleaues,one fpringing out of an- 
other, into many branches ofleaues, and all of them growing out of one leafe, put in- 
to the ground halfe way, which taking roote, all the reft rife out thereof,thofe bclowe 
for the moft part being larger then thofeaboue ; yet all of them fomewhatlong , flat, 
and round pointed, of the thicknefle of a finger vfually, and fmallcft at the lower end, 
where they are ioyned or fpring out of the other leaues , hauing at their firft breaking 
out a (hew of finall , red , or browne prickcs , thicke fet ouer all the vpper fide of the 
leaues, but with vs falling away quickly, leauing onely the markes where they flood : 
but they hauebefides this (hew ofgreat prickcs, a few very fine, and finall, hard, white, 
and (harpe, almoft infenfible prickcs, beingnotfobiggeashairesonthevnderfide, 
which will often fticke in their fingers that handle them vnaduifedly, neither are they 
to be difeerned vnleffe onelook precifely forthem: the leaues on the vnderfide hauing 
none of thofe other great pri cks or marks at all.being of a fake frefh pale green colour : 
out ofthe vppermoft leaues breake forth certaine greene heads , very like vnto leaues 
(fo that many are deccitied, thinking them to be leaues, vntill they marke them better, 
and be better experienced in them) but that theygrowe round and not flat, and are 
broad at the toppe 5 for that out of the tops of eueryof them (liooteth out a pale yel- 
low flower, confiding of two rowes of leaues , each containing fiue leaues a pcece, 
laid o pen with certaine yellow threads, tipt with red in the middle : this greene head, 
vntilltheflo.werbepaft, is not of halfe that bignefle thatit attained) vnto after , yet 
feldome or neuer commeth vnto perfection with vs, being long and round, like vntoa 
„ Figge,fmall bclowe,and greater aboue, bearing vpon the flat or broad head the marke 
of the flower; fome holding (till on them the dryed leaues, and others hauing loft 
them, (hew the hollowneffe which they haue in the toppe or middle of the head , the 
fides round about being raifed or ftandingyp higher : this head or figge in our Coun- 
try abideth greene on the outfide , and little or nothing reddilh within (although it a- 
bideall the Winter, and the Summer following, as (ometimesitdoth) forwantof 
lhathcate and comfort of the Sunneit hath in his naturali place, where it groweth 
* reddilh 
