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refemblinga Chalice:afterwhicbfucceedeththefruit,coueredwichabrownifhyelIow fbe! very 
like vn:o the fruit of luiubes (whereof Dodonaus in his laft edition maketh it a kindc) ofa rancke 
bitter, and vnpleafant tafte, with a fix cornered ftone within, which being dravvne on a ftrino- (hr- 
ueth to make Beades ofj for want of other things. ' 05 
2 Zizyphus Cappadocica groweth not fo great as the former,but is ofa rneane ftature,and full of 
boughes .-the barke is fmooth and euen, and that which groweth vpon the trunke and great 
boughes is ofa fhining fcarlet colour : out of thefe great armes or boughes grow (lender tivigofs 
white and foft, which are fet full of whitilh leaues, but more white on the contrarie or backe parr’ 
and are like to the leaues of Willow, but narrower and whiter : amongft thefe leaues come forth 
fmall hollow yellowiflh floures, growing at the iojnts of the branches, moft commonly three to 
gether,and of a pleafant fauour,with fome few thredsor chines in the middlethereof After 
which fucccedeth the fruit, of the bigneffeand fafliionof the fmalleft Oliue, white both’within 
and without, wherein is contained a fmall Hone which yeeldeth a kcrnellof apleafanr tafte and 
veryfweet. r ’ 
«f The Place. 
Matthiolus wrrteth, that Zizyphus Candida is found in the cloifters of many monaiteries in Italy • 
ZM faith that rt groweth m many places in Venice and Narbon 5 and it is wont now of late to be 
planted and cheti fired in the good lie ft orchards of all the low- Countries 
Zizyphus Cappadocica groweth likewife in many places of Italy, and fpeciallyin Spaine :itis 
alfocherifhed m gardens both in Germany and in thelow-Countries. $ It groweth alfohere in 
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If TheTime. 
Thefe trees floure in Iune in Italy and Spain . their fruit is ripe in September - but in Germany 
ana the low- Countries there doth no fruit follow the floures. " ^ 
The Names, 
Zizyp but Candida Auicen calleth Azedcracb, or as diuers read it,A\ederaeth:and they name it faith 
e, in Bcchi Arbor M mb alarm um, ox the Mirobalane tree, but not properly, and in Tabraftemand * 
Kien, and Thihich. The later writers are far deceiued in taking it to bethe Svcomore tree • and 
they as much, that would haue it to be the Loteor Nettle tree : it may be named in Enslifh Bead 
trejp,for thecaufe before alledged. ° 
. , °?® r is f the fccond kinde of Iniube tree, which Columella in his ninth 
, 0 . e and ™’ rtb CM P- doth call Zizyphus alba , or white Iuiube tree, for difference from theother 
tnar is ly r namcdi?«///a, or glittering red. Pliny calkthxhhZizyphus CappadmcaAn his 2 , booke 
ninth chapter where he entreateth of the honour of Gai\ands 3 of which he faith there be two forts 5 
whereof fome be made of floures, and orhers of leaner : I would call the floures (faith he)brooms’ 
for ofthofe is gathered a yellow Borne, and Rhododendron, alfo Zizyphaphich is called Cappadocica. 
ic floures of thefe are fweet of fmell, and iff e to Oliue floures. Neither doth Columella ox Pliny 
vna uifedly take this for Zizyphus, for both the leaues and floures grow out of the tender and yong 
prung twigs, as they likewife do out of the formerrhe floures are very fweet of fmel, and call their 
lauor far abroad: the fruit alfois like that of the former. 
*ff TheTemperaturc. 
uiutcer. .writing and intmaring of ^daraeth, faith, that the floures thereof be hot in the third 
degree, and dry in the end of the fi rft. 
Zizyphus Cappadocica is cold and dry ofeomplexion. 
The Venues. 
The floures of zizyphus, or zui^daratth open tbeobftruftionsof the braine. 
The d. fhllcd water thereof killcth nits and lice, preferueth thehaireof the head from falling, 
cfpccially being mixed with white wine, and the head bathed with it & 
rn,? e f A Ut l T ty hurt f l,1I .“ the chcft ' and 3 troublefome enemie to the ftomacke ■ it is dange- 
rous, and peraduenture deadly. 3 & 
^ re P° rtcd ’ tbat the ofthebarke and of Fumitorie,with Mirobalans ad- 
ded,ii good for agues proceeding of flegme. 
The juice of the yppermoft leaues with honey is a remedie againft poifon. 
the hV,! 1 V lfo . hatb f / "A ; the Beade tree, faith he, is hot and dry .-it is good for flopping* of 
r d o- . akct , h the haire !on B; yf is the fruit thereof very offenfiue to the ftomacke, and of- 
tentimes found to be pernmous and deadly. 5 
Ieaues an< ? wood brin g eth death euen vnto beafts, and that the poy- 
ion thereofis refilled by the fame remedies that Oleander is. 
nood'fn ibUf/lh tf'™ preuaile ‘ h a S ainft the difeafes aforefaid, but the decoftion thereofis verie 
W I ,hof ? wh< * .water fcaldeth them with the continuall ifliiing thereof, as alfo forfuch as 
haue the running of the teines and the exulcerations of the bladderand priuy parts. 
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