I4.64 Of the Hiftory of Plants; Lib. 
M/fcueruntque herbot, & nonimtxiavtrba, 
Auxilium <vtnil, ac membris agit atra vencnti , 
Jpfi ingtns arbos,faciefque fimillima Litiiro • 
Et,ft non alwm late lattaret odorem. 
Lour in erit ; folia haudvIUs labentiaventis . 
Flos apprime tenax. Animas <jr dentin Midi 
Orafouent illo , & fenibus medic mur anhelisl 
The Countrey Media beareth iuyees fad. 
And dulling taftes of happy Citron fruit. 
Than which, no helpe moreprefentcanbehad,’ 
5 If any time ftepmothers worfe than brute 
haue poy fon’d pots, and mingled berbs of fute 
With hurt full charmes : this Citron fruit doth chafe 
Blackc venome from the body in euery place. 
The tree it lelfe in growth is large and big, 
And very like in fhew to th’ Laurell tree ; 
And would be thought a Laurell, leafe and twig. 
But that the fmell it calls doth difagree : 
The floure it holds as faff as floure may be : 
Therewith the Medesa remediedofinde 
For flunking breaths and mouthes a cure moft kinde. 
And helpe old men which hardly fetch their winde. 
«T 7 he Time. 
Thefe trees be al waies greene, and do, as Pliny faith, beare fruit at all times of the yere,fome fal, 1 
ling off, others waxing ripe, and others newly comming forth. 
IT The Names. 
The firft is called in Greeke, , in Latin e,Maltis M edict, and Malus Citria : in Englifh, Ci- 
tron tree, and Pomecitron tree. 
The fruit is named in Greeke, ■. in Latine, Malum Medicum, and OH alum Citrium : and 
Citromafum. tAimilyanus in cyithenxm fheweth, that Iuba King of Mauritania hath made mention 
of the Citron, who faith that this Appleis named among them , Malum Hejpericum ; Galen denieth 
it to be called any longer Malum Medicum , but Citrium ; and faith, that they who call it Medicum do 
it to the end that no man Chou Id vnderftand what they fay : the Apothecaries call thefe apples CL 
troncs : in high- Dutch, CttUH opffcil, CittitiatetJ J in low-Dutch, Cittoenetl t in Italian \,Citroni, 
and Ccdri : in Spanifh, Cidras . in French, Citrons : in Englifh, Citron Apple, and Citron. 
The fecond kinde of Citron is called in Latine, Limomum Malum ; in fhops ,Limones : in French' 
Unions ■ in low- Dutch, jLitJlOttCtl: in Engliih, Limon, and Lemon. 
The third is named [nLaune, Malum a f 'ar,wtium or itinerant mm : and of fome i^Aurantium : of 
others, Aurengium . of the yellow colour of gold : fome would haue them called Arantia,o{Aranti- 
um, a towne in Achaia or Arania, ofa countrey bearing that name in Perfia : it is termed in Italian 
Arancio : in high-Dutch, ^omcfiinhcn : in low-Dutch, 3Ifafttgig3(lppc!ctJ : in French, Pommesd' 
Oren^es : in Spanifh, Naranfas in Engliih, Orenges. 
The fourth is named of diners, Pomum Afyrium,or the Citron of Affyria,and may be Englifbcd 
Adams Apple, after the Italian name ; and among the vulgar fort of Italians, Comic, ofwhom it is 
al fo called pomum Ad. mi, or Adams Apple-; and that came by the opinion of the common rude 
people, who thinke it to be the fame Apple which Adam did eate of in Paradife,when he tranfgref- 
fed Gods commandment ; whereupon alfo the prints of the biting appeare therein, as they fayibut 
others fay that this is nor the Apple, but that which the Arabians do call MufaotMofa,wheteo(A~ 
utcen,cp . . makerh mention : for diners of the Iewes take this for that through which by eating, 
Adam Pffended, as Andreev Theuet fheweth. 
The Temperature and Vertues. 
A AH thefe fruits confiftofvnlike parts, and much differing in facultie. 
B The rindes are fweet of fmell, bitter, hot, and dry. 
C The white pulpe is cold, and containeth in it a groffe iuice,efpecially the Citron.’ 
D The inner fubftance or pap is foure,as of the Citrons and Limons, cold and dry, with chinneffe 
of parts. 
E The feed becaufe it is bitter is hot and dry. 
F /£ e 1 n ", n . c ' e ot t *l e P orr >ecitron is good againft all poy fons, for which caufe it is put into treacles 
&nd luch like con t.c £t ions. 
It is 
