1502 . 
Of the Hiftoric of Plants. L i b. 3 
The Names. 
This tr ee is called in Greeke «>?<.• and with lot am the fecond fyllable: in latjne Jikewife 
Ziz,jfhus^ and of Petrus Crejcentius^ZiTjtlus in Engliih,Iuiube tree. 
The fruit or Plums are named in Giecke ?/£»♦«. Galen calleth them wt*. as s^iuicen plainely 
fhewethinbis 3<Sci. chapter, intreating of the Iuiube,inwhichbe fet downe thofe things thatare 
mentioned concerning Series in Galcns books of the faculties ot Nourifhmentsiin Latinc like wife 
Zizypha and Series : in ihops, luiuhst : in Englifh, Iuiubes. 
^ The Temperature. 
Iuiubes are temperate in heate and moifture. 
^1 The Vertues. 
A The fruit oftheluiube tree eaten is of hard digeftion, and notirifherh very iittlehut being taken 
in fyrrups,ele£hiaries,and fuch like confe&ions,it appeafeth and mollifieth the roughnelfe of the 
throat,the breft and lungs, and is good againft the cough, but exceeding good for the reines of the 
backe,and kidneies and bladder. -< 
G h a p. 130. Of the Qherrie Tree, 
•f The Kindes, 
nPHe antient Herbarifts haue fet down fotire kindes of Cherrie trees, the firft isgreatand wilde- 
'**■ the fecond tame or of the garden : the third , whofe fruit is foure : the fourth is that which is 
called in Latine Chamrecerajus, or the dwarfe Cherrie tree. The later writers haue found diuers forts 
more,fome bringing forth great fruit,others !e(Ter ; fome with white fruir,fome with blacke, others 
of the colour of blacke b loud, vary ing infinitely according to the climate and countrey where they 
grow. 
1 Cera fas vulgaris . 
The commbn Englifh Cherrie tree. 
"J VWWWf Cesrcz , i . .CL. . 
3 Cerafas Hiffanictt. 
The Spanifh Cherrie tree. 
