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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
B. I. 
The time. 
Ginger flourifheth in the hot time of Sommer, and lofeth his leaues in Winter. 
The names . 
Ginger is called in Latine Zingiber and Gingiber : in Greeke^ifi^andr,,,-^ In French, 67- 
/Timbre. 
^ The nature. 
Ginger heateth and drieth in the third degree. 
° The vert tics. 
A Ginger, as Viofcorides reporteth,is right good with meate in fauces, or otherwife in conditures : 
for it is of an heating and digefting qualitie • it gently loofeth the belly, and is profitable for the 
Ilomacke and etfeftually oppofethit felfeagainft all darkneffeof the fight ; anfivering the qua- 
lities and eifeAs of Pepper. It is to be confuted, That canded,greene or conditcd Ginger is 
hot and moift in qualitie, prouoking Veneric : and being dried, it heateth and drieth in the' third 
degree. 
C h a p. 45. Of <iA romaticall 'Reeds. 
3 Acer us virus officials falsi Calamus, 
dumjulo. 
The true cor us with his floure.' 
s_Acorus vents frtejulo. 
The tru e Scorns without the 
floure. 
Thedefcriptltf/t. 
j r*|-»His fweet-fmelling Reed is of a darke dun colour, full of joints and knees,eafie to be 
I broken into fmall fplinters, hollow, and full of a certaine pith cobweb-wife, fome- 
what gummy in eating, and hanging in the teeth, and of a Iharpe bitter tafte. It is 
of the thickneffe of the little finger, as Lobeltus affirmeth of fome which he had feene in Venice. 
2 Baftard Calamus hath flaggy leaues like vnto the Water floure de-luce or flagge, but nar- 
rower, three foot long; ofa frefh greene colour, and aromaticke fmell, which they keepe a long 
rime,altliourh they be dried. Now the ftalke which beares the floure or fruit is much like ano- 
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