Lib. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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i ©fa white colour, and fo-ne timeschanging into purpie,made of fix parts, wide open like a ftarre 
with certainc yellow chines or thrums in the middle j which beeing part the fruit commethin 
place, fet in a cornered cup or huske after the manner of the great Nigbtfhade, great and fom&t 
J what long, of the bigneife ofa fvvans egge.and fomtimes much greater, of a white color, fomenmes 
1 yellow, and often browne, wherein is contained fmall flat feed of a yellow colour. The toot is 
j thicke, with many threds faftned thereto. 
ThcpfOple of Tolledodo eat them with greatdeuotion being boiled with fat flefh, putting ^ 
thereto fome feraped cheefe, which they dokeepe invineger, honie,or fait picked all Winter to 
:: procure lull. 
Petrus Be/lomus, and Hermolitus Barhams, report that in Egypt and Barbary theyvfe to eat the g 
fruitof Mala i»/a»aboiIed orroftedvnder allies, with oile,vineger, & pepper, as people vfe to eat 
i Mufhroms. But I father wifh Englifh men to content themfelueswirh the meat and faucebfour 
i owfie Countfey, than with fruit and fauce eaten with fuch perill : for doubtleile thefe apples haue 
( a mifehieuous qualitie, the vfe whereof is vtterly to be for/aken. And as wee fee and know many 
I haue eaten and doe eat Mufhroms more forwantonneife than for need .-for there are two kindes 
f thereof- venemous and deadly, which being in the handling of an vnskilful cooke, may procure vn- 
' timely death. Therefore it is better to efeeme this plant and haue him in the Garden for your 
■ pleafurc and the rareneffe threof, than for any vertue or good qualities yet knowne. 
T TIie Apple of Louebtingeth forth very long round flalkes orbranches,fatandfuIl ofiuice, 
trailing vpon the ground, not able to fuftainehimfelfe vpright byreafonof the tenderneife 
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Mala inf ana. 
Madde or raging Apples, 
e[ The Places 
This plant growerh in Egypt almoft euery 
where in fandie fields euen of it felfe, bringing 
forth fruit of the bignefle ofa great Cucumber, 
as Petrus Belloniu-s reportethin the feconubooke 
ofhis lingular obferuations. 
Wee had the fame in our London Gardens, 
where it hath borne floures^ but the Winter ap- 
prochingbefore the time of ripening, itperifhedi 
notwitliftanding it came to beare fruit of the 
bignefleofa goofe egge one extraordinarie tem- 
perate yeare,as I did fee in the garden ofawor- 
fhipfull Merchant M'. Haruie in Liffleftreet, but 
netier to the full ripenefle. 
The Time. 
This herbemuftbe fowne in April! in abed 
ofhothorfedoung, as Muske-Melons are, and 
floureth in Auguft. 
tetrus BcUonius hath iudged it to bee Meilina . 
thallaTheophrafii. In the DukedomeofMillaine 
it is called Mclongena • and of Come,Mclan%ana : 
in Latine, Mala infana : and in Englifh,Mad Ap- 
ples -in the Germaine tongue, ©OllOpffcU in 
SpaniCh, Ferangenes . 
«[ The Names. 
The Nature. 
The hearbeis cold almoft in the fourth de- 
gree. 
The vfe ancl danger. 
Chap. <5o. Of aA’pples ofLoUe . 
The Defcriptton. 
of the italkes, and alfo the great weight of the leaues and fruit wherewith it is furcharged. 
the leaucs are great and deeply cut or iagged about the edges, not vnlike to the leaues of Agri- 
mony, but greater, and of a whiter greene colounamongwhichcome forth yellow floures growing 
