Lib. 3. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
T 4*5> 
Chap. 8 z : Of the Qarob tree t or Saint Johns ‘Bread. 
«i 7 he Vcfcription. 
T He Carob tree is alfo one of thofe that beare cods • it is a tree of a middle bignefle,very full of 
boughes : the leaues long, and confift of many fet together vpon one middle rib, like thole of 
the Afh, but euery particular one of them is broader, harder and rounder : thefmit or long cods 
in fome places are a foot in lengthen other places Ihorterby halfe, an inch broad, fmooth,& thick- 
in which dolieflatand broad feeds: thecods themfelues are of a fweet tafte,and are eaten of di- 
uers,but not before they be gathered and dried ; for being as yet green, though ripe, they are vnplea- 
fant to be eaten by reafon of their ill fauoured tafte. 
Ceratia fi/iqua,five Ccratonia . 
The Carob tree. 
^1 The Place. 
This groweth ( in Apulia,aProuinceof the 
kingdome of Naples, and alfoindiuers vntoi- 
ied places in Spaine : it is likevvife found 
in India and other countries Eaftward, where 
the cods are fo full of fweet iuice as that it is 
vfed to prderue Ginger and other fruites, as 
Matthiohu fheweth. Strata lib. 1 faith, that 
Ariftobtdus reporteth how there is a tree in In- 
dia of no great bignes, which harhgreat cods', 
ten inches long, full of hony ; Quits qui ederent 
non facile f eruari ; which thing peraduenture is 
onely to be vnderftood of the greene cods Sc 
thofe that are not yetdry:it is very wel known 
in thecoafts of Niccaand Liguria in Italy, as 
alfo in all the t rafts arid coalts of the Weft 
Indies, and Virginia. It growethalfo in fun- 
dry places of Paleftine, where there is fucli 
plenty of it,thac it is left vnto fwine and other 
wilde beads to feed vpon, as our Acornes and 
Beech mart. Moreouer, both young and old 
feed thereon for plealure.and fomehaue eaten 
thereof to fupply and help the necelfary nou- 
rifhment of their bodies. This of fome is cal- 
led Saint lohns bread, and thought to be that 
which is tranflated Locufts, whereon S. Iohn 
did feed when he was in the wildernefle, bc- 
fides the wilde hony whereof he did alfo eat- 
but there is frnall certainty of this : but moft 
certaine that the people of that countrey doe 
feed vpon thefecods,in Greekecalled 
in Latine,S///^«-e but Saint lohns food is called in Greeke ««r i*«:- which word is often vfed in the 
Reuelation written by Saint lohn, and tranflated Locufts. Now wee muftallo remember that this 
Greeke word hath two feuerall interpretations or fignifications, for taken in the good parr, it (Igni- 
fieth a kinde of creeping creature, or flie, which hoppeth or skippeth vp and down, as doth the graft- 
hopper -ofwhich kindeof creatures it was lawful! toeat,Z,f«/r.tt. 22. and Mat. 3. 4. Itfignifieth 
alfo thofe Locufts which came out of the fmoke of the bottomles pi t, mentioned Afoc.g.v . 5 .4. Sic. 
which were like vnto horfes prepared forbattell. The Hebrew word which the Englifh tranflators 
haue turned Graflioppers.T remelus daresnot giue the name Locufi vnto it, but callcth it by the He- 
brew name Arbis, aha the letters and Hebrew name, faying thus in the note vpon the 22 . verfeof 
the 1 1. chapter of£«//V.Thefekindes of creeping things neither the Hebrews nor the Hiftoriogra. 
phers,nor our felues do know whattheymeane: wherefore we ftill retainethe Hebrew words,' for 
all the fourekindes thereof : but it is certaine that theEaft countrey Grafhoppers and Locufts 
were fometimes vfed in meat, as Math. 3.4. and Marc. 1,6. Vlin ltb,\ \,Natur,Hiftor. cap 2 d.and 39. 
Thus 
