Lib. 3. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 1435 
The like quantitie wafhe din water diners times vntill it be white,then mult be put thereto th e G 
like quantity ofthe yolk of an egge,and laboured togethcradding thereto by little and little(corr 
tinually ftirring it)a fmall draught of poflit drinke made of white wine, and giuen to drink in the 
morning failing, ithelpeth moft fpeedily the Gonorrhsa,or running of the reines, commonly at the 
firft time, but the medicine neuer faileth at the fecond time ofthe taking of it, which giues ftooles 
from foure to eight, according to the age and ftrength of the patient. 
C h a p. 86. Of the Frankincenfe tree. 
5[ The Defcription. 
T Herree'from which Frankincenfe floweth is but low, and hatfe leaues like the Maffick tree yet 
fome are of opinion that the leafe is like the leafe of a Peare tree, and of agraifie colour /the 
rinde is like that ofthe Bay tree, whereof there are twokindes ; the one groweth in mountains and 
rockie places, the other in the plaine : but thole in the plaines are much worfe than thofe of the 
mountaines : the gum hereof is alfo blacker, fitter to mingle with Pitch, and fuch other ftuffe to 
trim (hips, than for other vies. 1 
Arhtr %hurtfera. 7 'hurls L'tmpidifolium Lohelij. 
The Frankincenfe tree. The fuppofed leafe of the Frankincenfe tree; 
Theuet in his Cofmographie faith, that the Frankincenfe tree doth refemble a gummieor rofiny 
Pine tree, which yeeldeth a iuice that in time groweth hard, and is called Thus , Frankincenfe, in 
whom is found fometime certaine finall graines like vnto grauell, which they call the Manna of 
Frankincenfe. 
Of this there is in Arabia two other forts, the one, the gum wherof is gathered in the Dog daies 
when the Sun is in Leo,whichis white, pure, cleare,and (Tuning. Penn writeth that he hath feene 
the cleare Frankincenfe called Lrmpidum, andyeeldinga very fweet fmellwhen it is burnt, but the 
leafe hath been feldome feene-, which the Phyfition Lamams gaue to Pena and LoM, together with 
Pome pieces o f the llo !i ne, wh ich he had o f certaine mariners, but he could alfirme nothing ofeer- 
taintie whether it were the leafe ofthe Frankincenfe,oroffomeother Pine tree, yeeldingthe like 
iuiceorgum.lt is, faith he (which doth feldom happen in other leaues) from the lower part or foot 
ofthe lea fe,to th : vpper end, as it were doubled, con lifting of two thin rindes or coats, with a (heath 
a fpan and a half: long, at the top gaping open like a hood or fooles coxcorabe,andas it were eoue- 
red with a helmet, which is a thing feldom: feene in a leafe, but is proper to the floures of Nip dim. 
