1436 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lib. 3. 
writers affirme; the other is gathered in the fpring, which is reddifh,worferthan the 
other in price or value, becaufe it is not lo well conco&ed intheheatof theSunne. The Arabians 
wound this tree with a knife, that the liquour may flow out more abundantly , whereof home trees 
yeeld threefcore pounds of Frankinfence. 
The Place. 
Diofcorides faith it groweth in Arabia, and efpecially in that quarter which is called Thurifera, 
thebeftin that countrey is called Stagomas,and is round, and if it bebroken,is fatwithin,and when 
it is burned doth quickly yeeld a fmehnext to it in goodnes is that which groweth in Smilo, Idler 
than the other, and more yellow. ^ The Time. 
The time is already declared in the defeription. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke >./:«>*< : inLatine,T£«*.- in Italian, . in Dutch, HHucitaticlpin Spanifh, 
Encenfo : in French, Enceus in Englifh, Frankincenfe, and Incenfe : in the Arabian tongu e^Louan, 
and of fome kw, Condor. $ The Rolin carries the fame name; but in fhops it is called Ohl/am/m,o{ 
the Greeke name and article put before it.$ 
•s' The Temperature and Vertues. 
. It hath, as Diofcorides faith, a power to heate and binde. 
R It driueth away the dimnefle of the eye-light, filleth vp hollow vlcers,it elofes raw woundsjftai- 
D eth all corruptions ofbloud,altbough it fall from the head. 
q Galen write th thus of n-Thm doth heate in the fecond degree, and drie inthefirft,andhath fome 
Imall aftri£lion,but in thewhite there is a manifeft aftri(ftion;the rindedoth manifeftly bindeand 
dry exceedingly, and that moft certainly in the fecond degree, forit is of more grolfer parts than 
Frankincenfe.and not fo fharpe,by realon whereof it is much vfed in fpitting of bloud, fwe! lings 
in the mouth, the collicke paflion,the flux in the belly rifingfrom the ftomacke,and bloud y flixes. 
D The fume or fmokcofit hath a more drier and hotter quality than the Frankincenfe itfelfe,be- 
ing dry in the third degree. 
E It doth alfoclenfe and fillvpthevlcersintheeies,likevntoMyrrhe:thus far Galen. 
F Diofcorides faith, that if it be drunk by a man in health, it driueth him into a frenfie ; but there are 
few Greekes ofhis minde. 
G . /iuuen reporteth thatitdothhclpe and ftrengthen thewit andvnderftanding,butthe often ta- 
king of it will breed the head-ache, and if too much of it be drunke with wine it killeth. 
Chap. Sy. OfFiJlich 
Pi/lacia. The Fifticke Nut. 
The Defeription. 
He tree which beareth Fifticke Nuts is like 
to the Turpentine tree: the Ieaues hereof be 
greater than thofe of the Mafticke tree, but fet 
after the fame maner, and in like order that they 
are,being of a fain t yellow colour out of a green ; 
the fruit or Nuts do hangby their ftalks inclu- 
fters, being greater than the Nutsol Pine Ap- 
ples, and much lefler than Almonds ; the husks 
without is of a grayifh colour fometimes red- 
difh,the fhell brickie and white ; the fubftance 
of the kernell greene ; thc tafte fvveet,p!eafant to 
be eaten, and fomething fwcetof fmell. 
f The Place. 
Fifticke Nuts grow in Perlia, Arabia, Sy- 
ria, and in India ; now they aremade free Deni- 
zonsinItaly,asinNaplesandin other Prouin- 
ces there. 
m The T ime. 
This tree doth floure in May, and the fruit is 
ripe in September. 
q] The Names. 
This Nut is called in Greeke^mw in Athe . 
naus:Nicander Colophonim in his bookeof Trea- 
cles nameth it ■+*«<«>.■ Peffidontus nameth it 
others, the Latines obferuing the fame 
termes,haue named it Pijlacion,Eijlacion , or Phi 
Jlacion ■ 
