L I B. 2. 
Of the Hiflory of Plants.' 
,9° i 
Gofipitim,fiuc Xylon. 
The Cotton bulli. 
th ^°, rd - Notvvithftanding my fafej yeans 
paft did fow of the feed 7 which did grow verie 
frankly, but penfhed before it came to perfefti 
on, by reafon of the cold ffofts that ouertooke 
it in the time of flouring. 
If The Time. 
Cotton ieed is fb wen in plowed fields in the 
Spring of the yeare, and reaped and cut down in 
narueli, eucn as corne with vs • and the ground 
mull: be tilled and fowne new againe the next 
yeare, and vfed in fuch fort at we do the tillage 
for come and grain : for it is a plant of one yefe 
and penfheth when it hath perfedfedhis fruit, 
as many other plants do. 
% The Names, 
Cotton is called in Greeke ps*», and in 
Latin^ Xylum, and Gojsjpzum after the Greeke s 
m drops, Lanugo, Bombax, and Colum : in Italian* 
VombagM : in Spanifh,^^ .. inhigh-Dutch’ 
ffiaumtoool : in Englifh and French , Cotton 
Bombafle and Bombace. 
Theophrajlus hath made mention hereofin his 
fourth booke,^.^. but without a name - and 
ne faith it is a tree in Tylus which beares vvool 
Neither is it any maruell if he took an vnknowm 
fhrub or plant, and that groweth in Countries 
farre off, for a tree feeing a Ifo in this age ( in 
which very many things come to be better 
knownethan in times part) the cotton or wooll 
hereofis called of thcGermanes (as Wee haue 
\'“ ha >n , hc ; bc " rn " u «»*. . “nd! ° f * tr “> 
Of this TBeophrafius wntezh thus; It is reported that the fame Ifland -r i , j , , - 
“ c ’r 1 “ b ’” s 
geth fihi ffi Muiaikd cfiw‘2 US th PP 'f ' p “. of , E SrP t ,0 " rd Wit 
called Xylim It i s rfairh heU he J u , d therefore the l«Jnen that is made of it is 
which the Priefts of Egypt do wcare that VV °° U vvheiCTrith thc garments are made 
hotand dry ,°^ C ° tt0n (according t0 rhe opinion of Serapio) is hot and moift : the wooll it felfe is 
T1 r j cr' If The Venues. 
and the P dayly vfe and benefr t we^ecehie' b v it foei^th P m ^ ' s Ver< J fu P erfluous » common experience J) 
ftorie to f Jake of the SlofW 7 ur th< ' m : So tha P c ™ere impertinent to our hi- ^ 
Wooll thereof. D f ft 3 Bombar ‘ es i a ^ many other things that are madeof the 
Chap. 35 6 . Of T>ogs^bane. 
5f The Kindes. 
T^prigtforub! 11 ^ 5 ° f D ° §S ' baneS:the onea cl f mbin 3 0r clambering plant; the other 
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