Lib. z. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants 
^ Tie Dtfcripsion. 
z npHe firft of chefe plants hath fquare ftalkcs a foot high or fomew-h ■ fit aa 
i. ny thicke and fat leaues, notvnlike to thofcof garden Nightfhade, but liar:; , n.d 
{harper pointed, of a darke greene colour. The flonres grow alongft the ftalkes, out of the 
wings of the leaues, of a white colour, hauing for the molt part fine fniall leaues b la ling out like a 
liar, with a greene button in the middle. After them grow the cods, greene at the firft, and when 
they be ripe of a braue colour glittering like red corall, in which is contained little flat feeds, ofa 
light yellow colour, ofa hot biting tafte like common pepper, as is alio the cod it felfe : which is 
long, and as big as a finger, and fharpe pointed . 
t 2 The difference that is betweene this and thelaft deferibed is finall, for it confifts in 
nothing but that the cods are pretty large and round, after the fafhion ofcherries,and not fo long 
as thofe of the former, t 
3 The third kinde of Ginnie pepper is like vnto the precedent in leaues, floures, and ftalkes. 
The cods hereof are fmall, round, and red,very like to the berries of Dulcamara or wooddy Night- 
fhade, both in bigneffe, colour, andfubftance, whereinconfifteth the difference : notwithftan- 
ding the feed and cods are very fharpe and biting, as thofe of the firft kinde. 
t Capfici filiqu&varix. 
Varieties of the cods of Ginnie pepper. 
t There are many other varieties of Ginnie pepper, which chiefly confift in the Chape and 
colour of the cods : vyherefore I thought good ( ana that chiefely becaufeitisa plant that will 
hardly brooke our climate ) only to prefent you with the figures of their feuerall Chapes, vvhere- 
ofthe cods of fome ftand or grow vpright, and other fome hang downe : fuch as defire further in- 
formation of this plant, may be aboundantly fatisfied in Clufius hisCurapoflcrSmmpag. 95. to 
J>ng. 108. where they fhall finde thefe treated of at large in a treatife written in Italian tTy Gregory 
dcRcgio ,a Capuchine Fryer, and fent to C hi fi us,' who tranflating it into Latine,left it to be fet forth 
with other his obferuations, whith was performed 2. yeares after his death, towit Amo Domini 
161 1 . 1 The figures we here giue are the fame which are in that tractate, f 
f The Place. 
Tkefe plants are brought from forrein countries, as Ginnie, India, and thofe parts, into Spaine 
