Of the Hiftory of Plants; Lib. y 
U The Vertues. 
A The tender leaues, faith Diofcoridcs , being ftampcd and layedvpon cold fwellings,do wafte away 
the fame. 
B They are drunke with Cute in the weight of a dram againft the .fluffing of the lungs, and doe 
bring downe the menfes,the birth, and the afterbirth. 
C They cure the head-ache being drunke with wine ; the iuice of the root digefteth and ripeneth, 
if the feed be eaten it procurethvomite, which thing, as CMatthklas vvriteth,the feed notonelyof 
ftinking Beane Trefoile doth effeft, but that alfo of the other likewife. 
Chap. 8 1. Of Iudas Tree. 
Arbor Tudx. 
Iudas Tree., 
the Definition. 
I Vdas tree is likewife one of the hedge 
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[ plants,: it groweth vp vnto a tree of a reafo- 
nable bignefle, couered with a dark colou- 
red barke, whereon doe grow many tvviggie 
tough branches of a brown colour, garnifhed 
with round leaues,like thofeof round Birth- 
woort,or Sowbread, but harder, and of a dee- 
per greene colour : among which come forth 
fmall floures like thofe of Peafon,of a purple 
colour, mixed with red, which turn into long 
flat cods, prefled hard together,of a tawny or 
wancolour, wherein is contained fmall flat: 
feeds, like the Lentil], or rather like the feed, 
of Medica,fafhioned like a little kidney: the 
root is great and wooddie. 
f V& Place. , 
This fhrub is found indiuersprouinces of 
S paine, in hedges,and among briers & bram- 
bles : the mountaines of Italy, and the fields 
of Languedocke are not without this fhrub; 
it groweth in my garden. 
uj The Time. 
The floures come forth in the Spring, and 
before the leaues : the fruit or cods be ripe in 
Sommer. 
The Thames. 
It is commonly named in Latine Arbor lu- 
d& : fome haue called it Sycomorue,oxSyco~ 
tnoretree, and that becaule the floures and cods hang downe from the bigger branches : but the 
tight Sycomore tree is like the Fig-tree in fruit, & in leaues to theMulberrie tree,wheruponitisfo 
named. Others take it tobcw,-. ofwhich Theophrafius writeth thu$,C«w bringeth forth fruit in a 
cod ; which words are all fo few, as that of this no certaintie can be gathered, for therebe more 
fhrubsthat bring forth fruit in cods. The Frenchmen call it Guaimer, as though they fhouldfay, 
Vaginula .-or a little fheath : moft of the Spaniards do name it ^Akcrouo /aw, that is, Siliqua Muffins 
°r /kf««?,wilde or foolifh cod : others, Arbol d' amor, for the brauenefle fake : it may be called in En- 
gli (h , iudas tree, for that it is thought to be that wher eon hi das did hang him felfe, and notvpon the 
Elder tree, as it is vulgarly faid. 
The Temperature and Vertues. 
1 he te mperature and vertues of this fhrub are vnknowne,and not found out-.for whereas Matthi- 
e.tis maker h this to be cacU , by adding falfely thoines vnto it ,it is but a furmife. 
Chap. 
