L I B; 2 , 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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The fruit is round , and bunched with vneuen 
lobes or bankes.lefler thanthegolden Apple, of 
colour red, and of afirmeandfollidfubftance- 
wherein are contained fmall flat feeds. The root 
is fmall and threddy. 
«|J The P luce. 
The feeds of this plant haue beene brought 
vntovsoutofSpaine,andalfo fent into France 
and Flanders : but to what perfection it hath 
come vnto in thofe parts I am ignorant ■but 
mine perifhcd at the firft approch of VVinrer. 
His firft originalwas from .'Ethiopia, whereof it 
tooke his name. 
The Time. 
This Plant mu ft be fowen as Muske-Melons, 
and at the fame time. They floure in Inly , and 
the fruit is ripe in September. 
The Names. 
InEnglifhwee haue thought good to call it 
the .Ethiopian Apple, for the reafon before al- 
ledged.-in Latkie, Mala ^Ethiopica : of fome it 
hath been thought to be Malinathalla. ^ This is 
the Solarium pomiferum of Label and others; by 
which name our Author alfo formerly had it, in 
the fiftieth chapterof the former edition, £ 
«jl The That ure. 
The temperature agreeth with the Apple of 
Loue. 
TheVertucs . 
Thefe Apples are not vfed in phyficke that I 
can reade of ; onely they are vfed for a fauce and 
feruice vnto rich mens tables to be eaten, being 
firft boyled in the broth of fat flefti with pepper and fait, and haue a lefle hurtfull iuyee than ei- 
ther mad apples or golden Apples. 
Chap. 61. Of Tbornie'^pples. 
«[ The Defcription. 
1 r T" > He {hikes of Thorny-apples are oftentimes aboue a cubit andahalfe high, feldome 
higher, an inch thicke, vpright and ftraight, hauing very few branches, fometimes 
none at all, but one vpright ftemme ; whereupon doe grow leaues fmooth and cuen, 
little or nothing indented about the edges, longer and broader than the leaues of N ight-ihade, or 
of the mad Apples. The floures come forth oflong toothed cups, great, white of the forme of a 
bell, or like the floures of the great Withwinde thatrampeth in hedges; but altogether greater 
and wider at the mouth, fharpe cornered at the brimmes, with certaine white chines or threds in 
the middeft, ofa ftrong ponticke fauour, offending the head when it is fmelled vnto.: in the place 
of the floure commcth i-p round fruit full of fliort and blunt prickles, of the bigneffe Of a greene 
Wall-nut when it is at the biggeft,in which are the feeds of the bignelle of tares or of Mandrakes, 
and of the fame forme. The herbe it felfe is ofa ftrong fauor, and doth ftuffe the head, and caufeth 
drowfineffe. The root is (mail and threddy. 
2 There is another kinde hereof altogether greater than the former, whofe feeds Ireceiuedof 
the right honorable the Lord Eebvard Zouch ; which he brought from Conftantinople , and of his 
liberalitiedidbeftow them vponme,as alfo many other rare & ftrange feeds^and it is that Thorn- 
apple that I haue difperfed through this land, whereof at this prefent I haue great vfe in Surgery, 
as well in burnings and fcaldings,as alfo in virulent and maligne vlcers,apoftumes,and fuel) like. 
The which plant hath a very great ftalke in fertile ground, bigger than a mans arrne, fmooth, and 
greene of colour, which a little aboue the ground diuideth it felfe into fundry branches or arrnes, 
in manner of an hedge tree , whereupon are placed many great leaues cut and indented deepely 
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