Of the Hiitorie of Plants. 
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The femes. 
The decoftion of the leaues of Lantana is very good to be gargled in the mouth againft a] 1 fwel- A 
lings and inflammations thereof, againft the fcuruie and ocher difeafes of the gums^and faftneth 
The fame boiled in lee doth make the haires blacke if they be bathed or vvalhed therewith, and g 
fU ^heberr1es areof the "like facultie,the pouder whereof when they be dried ftay the las ke, all if- C 
files ofbloud.andalfothewhites, . . ... , , c 
It is reported that the barke of the root of the tree buried a certaine time in the earth, and after- p 
wards boiled and ftamped according to art, maketh good Bird-lime for Fowlers to catch Birds 
with. 
Chap. 12,2,* Of the Beade tree « 
I Zi~ypha Candida. 
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$ 2 ZizyphaCappttdecica. 
The Beade tree of Cappadocia. 
The Difcription . 
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i '■yflts tree was called Zizypha Candida by the Herbarifts of Montpellier; and by the Vene- 
1 tians and Italians, Sycomorus , but vntruly : the Portugals haue termed it Arbor Paradi- 
: all which and each whereof haue erred together,bothinrefpe<ftof the fruit and of the whole 
tree: fome haue called itZizypha, though in facultieit is nothing like; for the tafteofthis fruit is 
very vnpleafant, virulent, and bitter. But deciding all controuerfies, this is the tree which Aaicen 
calleth t^dzederach^yrhich is very great, charged with many large armes, that are garniThed with 
twiggie branches, fet full of great leaues con filling of fundry fmall leaues, one growing right op- 
pofite toanother like the leaues of the Afh tree or Wicken tree, but more deepely cut about the 
edges like the teeth of a faw : among which come the floures, confiding of flue fmall blew leaues 
layd abroad in manner of a ftarre : from the middeft whereof groweth forth a fmall hollow cup 
refembling 
