1 B * 3- Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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, 5i 7 he Place. 
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that K is found on the fea fhores of the Ligurian and Adnatsde fea and in ^/lyrZmZlhZs fordl 
great berries : and others fay that it growes in Prouence of France : it commeth vp for" the 1 
part tn rough places and neere to the fea, as Diofcorides noteth . P t r the mod 
, 5f ThcTime. 
miuhipertreeflourethinMay^the floure whereof is nothing elfe but as it were a little vM 
lowifh duft or powder ftrowed vpon the boushes. The fruit is rine in Senivmk , j • 3 , j yc " 
found ettherwintet or Sommer without ripe and vnripe berries, and all at one timcf" ” e ' d ° me 
. II The Names. 
The lumper tree is called in Greek'C“f«*»»tf: the Apothecaries keenerhe T m-inr 
the Arabians call it ^irchonxt and Arc hem as • the Italians, Giftepro fin high Dutch JBechhalfcr • 
luniJef l treef” f ^’ GW£ ^'’’ ^ * the v rench men and bafe Almaines Gencue un Englffo, 
rnJ h fl! ef [ erl n n A mC t in Grcekc T**? in Latirft, Iuniper m. The great Iimiper Tree is called as 
fome thinke in Greeke^^un Lat.ne (by Label) UrLperusmacamua UlyUcus unZbcca bv 
reafon of thecolour of the berries, and may be called in Englifh, blew Iuniper. ’ 7 
The berries are called lumpen : in Greeke, although the Tree itfelfealfois often- 
times called by the lame narae ¥ «.s.V: it is termed in high Dutch, iittatuetbeer Ckhnlierhecr ♦ 
m low Dutch ©entDtebEtten: in Spamfh, Neurinas : ,n Englifh, Iuniper bemW !t W ° Uetbee * 1 
The gum of the lumper tree is vfually called of the Apothecaries Vernix :in Latine Lachnma 
lumper i : Serapto nameth i.W„ and WWa ; but there is another Sandaracha famojthd ’ 
?,aT S a uP a av °r ° rpment> which § r0lveS in the fame minerals wherein Orpment doth 
and this doth farre differ fromFermxpv the Iuniper gum. Pliny in his , i.bookc, 7 chaprermaketh 
mention alfo of another Sandaracha^ hichis called Enthrce and Ctrinthus : this is tES 
Bees whileft they be about their worke. ' • me meateot • 
. V The Temperature. 
lumper is hot and dry, and that in the third degree, as Galen teacheth ■ the berries are alfo hor 
but not altogether fo dne : the gum is hot and dry in the firft degrees the Arabians write ’ h * 
keS if ° Ii : ni P“ tree doth cle " re the liuer and kidnies, as Galen teftifieth ■ it alfo ma 
which theyvfetorifev P raw,toughand clammy humors, thihauenuiy tini 
Dutcrs in Bohemia do take in /lead of other drinke the water iv}ipr/»fn fk^r k • t l 
fteeped, who line in wonderfull good health 5 r n tliofe berri « ha8e b «n D 
™lJn A 1S |' 1 ^ odmnk . ea S a i n ^Poi fonsai > d pefti 1 e nt fetters, and itis not vnpleafant in thedrinkins- E 
when the firft water is almoft fpent, the veffell is againc filled vp with frefh 
,, X .V l f hc , Ca T and w ^°ddriucth away ferpents, and all infedtion and corruption of F 
the aire, which bring the plague, or fuch like contagious difeafes : the imee of the leaues is laid on 
with wine, and alfo drunke againft the bitings of the viper. ° n 
skinnc. aflieS ° f the bl ’ rned barkc > bcin S a PP Iied With water, take away feurffe and filth of the G 
rn J‘ he ’TlaT ° f K eVV f ,od bein S ‘hardly taken, is pernicious and deadly, as Diofcorides vulgar 
copies do affirme ■ but the true copies vtterly deny it, neither do any of the old writers affirmed 
ftn^lf T 3 f d fm0ke . 0f the St , lm doth fta Y Aegmaticke humors that diftill out of the head and 
ftoppe h the rheume : the gum doth ftay raw and Aegmaticke humors that ftickem the ftomacke 
and guts,if it be inwardly taken, and alfo drunke iromacKe 
a!I “ 0f wormes in the belly, it ftaieth the rnenfes, and hemorrhodes : it is com- 
. r T ° 2 o ai n ft fpitting of blond , it dryeth hollow vlcers, and filleth them with fleih if it 
be ca ft thereon : being mixed with oile ofRofcs, it healeth chops in the hands and feet. ’ 
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