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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
B. 
$ 3 Syringa e. Arabic * . 
Arabian Pipe. 
the floures, growing in tufts, compaft of foure 
fmall leaues of a white colour, and of a plea- 
fant fweet fmell ; but in my Judgement they 
are too fweet, troubling and molefting the 
head in very ftfange manner. I once gathered 
the floures and laid them in my Chamber 
window, which fmelled more ftrongly after 
they had lien together a few hoiires, with 
fuch anvnacqtiaintcd fauor,that they awaked 
me out of my fleepe, fo that I could not take 
any reft till I had call them out of my cham- 
ber. When the floures be vaded then follo- 
weth the fruit, which is fmall,curlcd,and as it 
were compaift of many little folds, broad to- 
wards the vpper part, and narrow towards the 
ftalk, and black when it is ripe,wherin is con- 
tained a (lender and long feed. The roothere- 
offpreadeth it felfe abroad in theground, af- 
ter the manner of the roots of fuch (hrubbie 
trees. 
2 The blew Pipe groweth likewife in 
maner of a fmal hedge tree, with many (hoots 
rifing from the root like the former, as our 
common Priuet doth, whereof itisakinde; 
The branches haue fome fmall quantitie of 
pith in the middle of the wood, and arecoue- 
red with a darke blacke greenilh barke or 
rinde. The leaues are exceeding greene, and 
crumpled or turned vp like the brimmes of an 
hat, in (hape very like vnto the leaues of the 
Poplar tree : among which come the floures, 
of an exceeding faire blew coIour,compa<a of 
many fmall floures in the forme of a bunch of 
grapes : each flotire is in (hew like thofe of 
Valerian* rubra Dodon&i, conlifting of foure 
parts like a little ftar,of an exceeding fweet 
fauor or fme!,but not fo ftrong as the former.’ 
When thefe floures be gone, there fucceed 
flat cods, and fomewhat long, which bein°- 
ripe are of a light colour, with a thinne mem- 
brane or ft Ime in the mid ft, wherein are feeds 
almoft foure fquare, narrow and ruddy. 
t 3 This (which Cluftus fetteth forth 
by the name of lafmimm <~Arabicum, oxSyrin. 
ga Arabic*) groweth fome two or three cu- 
bits high, diuided into many (lender bran- 
ches, whereon by couples ateachioint (land 
leaues like thofe of the firft deferibed , but 
thinner, and not fnipt about the edges: on 
the tops of the branches grow the floures, 
wholly white, conlifting of nine, ten, or twelue 
leaues fet in two rankes : thele floures are very 
fweet, hailing a fent as it were compounded 
of" the Spanifh Iafmine,and Orange floures.lt is a tender plant,and may be grafted vpon the com- 
mon lafmine, whereon it thriues well, and floures mod part of the Sommer. It groweth plentiful- 
ly in Egypt ; and Projper ^Alpinus is thought to mention this by the name of Sambac Arabum, [tut 
Gelfrmmunt Arabicum. 4 
4 Gians vngtientaria, or the oy lie Acorne, is the fruit ofa tree like Tamariske, of thebignefle 
of an Hafell Nut •, out of the kernell whereof, no otherwife than out of bitter Almonds, is prefled 
anoylieiuycewhichis vfed inpretious Oyntments, as Diofcorides afflrmerh : neither is it in our 
time wholly reie&ed ■ for the oyle of this fruit mixed with fweet odours ferueth to perfume 
gloues 
4 BatcmusMyrep fun, fine Clans vngtientaria. 
The Oylie Acorne. 
