Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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with a thin rinde like that of the Fig, of a yellow eolour when they be ripe : the pulpe or fubftarrce 
of the meate is like that of the Pompion, without either feeds, Hones, or kernels, in tail not great- 
ly pereeiued at the firft,but prefently after k pleafeth, and entifeth a man to eat liberally thereof, 
by a certaine entiling fweetnes it yeelds : in which fruit, if it be cut according to the length (faith 
myne Author)oblique,tranfuerfe, or any other way what foeuer, may be feenthe (hapeand forme 
ofa erode, with a man fadned thereto. My felfe haue feene the fruit, and cut it in pieces which 
was brought me from Aleppo in pickle • the erode I might perceiue, as the forme of a fpred-Hgle 
in the root of Feme ; but the man 1 leaue to be fought for by thofe that haue better eyes and iudg- 
ment than my felfe. 
cMufa Serapionil. Mufe Fruit us. 
t Aprill io. 1653. my much honored friend D\ Urgent (now Preiident of theColIedge of 
Phyfitions of London) gaue me a plant he receiued from the Bermuda’s : the length of the It a 1 k e 
was fome two foot • the thicknefife thereof fome feuen inches about, being crefted,and full of a 
foft pith, fo that one might ealily with a knife cut it afunder. It was crooked a little, or indented, 
fothat each twoor three inches fpaceit put forth a knot of fome halfe inch thickneffe, and fome 
inch in length, which incompafled it more than halfe about; and vpon each of thefe ioints or knots, 
in two rankes one aboue another, grew the fruit, fome twenty, nineteene, eighteene,&c. more or 
Idle, at each knot: for the branch I had, contained nine knots or diuifions,andvpon the lowed 
knot grew twenty, and vpon the vppermoft fifteene. The fruit which I receiued was not ripe, but 
greene,each of them was about the bignefle of a large Beane ; the length of them fome fine inches, 
and the bredth fome inch and halfe : they all hang their heads downewards, haue rough or vneuen 
ends,andare hue cornered ; and if you turne tbevpper fide downward, they foinewhat refemblea 
boat,as you may lee by one of them expredby it felfe : the huske is as thicke as a Beanes, and will 
eafily (hell off it: the pulpe is white and foft: the dalke whereby it is fadned to the knot is verie 
fhort, and almod as thicke as ones little finger. This dalke with the fruit thereon I hanged vp in 
my (hop, were it became ripeabout the beginning of May, and laded vntil lune : the pulp or meat 
was very foft and tender, and it did eatefomewhat like arMuske- Melon. I haue giuenyou the fi- 
gureofthewhole branch, with the fruit thereon, whichl drew as foone as I receiued ir, and iris 
marked with this figure 1, The figure 2. fheweth the ibapeofone particular fruit, with the lower 
Adams Apple tree. 
Adams Apple. 
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