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Of the Hiftory of Plants; 
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lowifh colour, round, light and bitter, couered with a threefold skin or filme wherein is tobe Teen 
as Monardm and dn.ers other report, the forme ofa Dragon, hauing a long necke or gapino- mouth’ 
■ the ridge or backe armed with fharpe prickles, like the Porcupinept hath alfoalong taile &f 0ll ~ 
feet, very cane tobe difcernedithe figure ofit wehaue fet forth vntoyou according to the great 
neffe thereof, bccaufe our words and meaning may be the better vnderftood, and alfo the leafe nr 
the tree in his full bignefle.becaufe it is impoffible tobe expreffed in the figure : the trunke or bn 
dy of the tree is couered with a rough barke.very thin, and eafie to be opened or wounded with anu 
fmall took onnft rumentjwhi cli being fowounded in the Dog daies, bruifed or bored, doth vecld 
forth drops ofa thicke red liquour, which of the name of the tree are called Dragons teares orSan 
Z uts Dr acorns. Dragons blond : diners haue doubted whether the liquour or gummie iuice were all 
one with Cm» Juris . of D,oJcoric( C s { not meaning that Cinder made of Quick'filuer)but the teceiued 
opinion is, they differ not.by reafon their qualitie and temperature worke the like effed. 
The Place. 
This tree groweth in an Ifland which the Portugals call Madera , and in one of the Canatie 
Iflands, called Infda Porttts Sunlit . and as it feemeth itwas firft brought out of Africke although 
fome are ofa contrary opm, on, and fay, that it was firft brought from Carthagena, in America by 
the Bifhop of the fame Prouince, ’ a > ° J 
If The Time. 
The time of his growing we haue touched in the defection, where wee faid that it flourifheth 
and groweth greene all the yeare. lcl “ 
The Thames , 
The names haye beene fufficiently fpoken ofin the defeription and in their feuerall titles, 
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5T The Temperature and Vertues. 
A I- T k n ^'7 v t ich « bought to proceed from this tree hath an aftringent faculty ' 
and is with good fuccefTe vfed in the ouermuch flowing of the couifes.in fluxes, Dyfenteries fnit’ 
ting of bloud, fattening Ioofe teeth,and fuch other affeds which requireaftriftkw/ ’ P 
B fromrit f ° ^ “ rovarml11 ouer theitworkes to g.ue them a fanguine colour,' and keep them 
Chap. 142,; Of the Sajjafras^r <tfTgue tree, 
If The Defeription. 
TwSff? tTe A g f? W$ Z™’ much like vnt0 the Pine tree •• trunke or body is ftraighr 
-1 lmooth and void of boughes,ofa great height: it is couered with a two fold grofferinde 
vppermoft of the colour of athes,that next the wood ofa tawnie colour ■ on the tonmrl S “ 
ny goodly branches, like thofe of the Palme tree, whereon fomewh J 
thofe of the Fig tree, of a fweet fmell when they be greene, but much fleeter when theXdrv de 
dining to the fmell of Fenell, with much fweetneffe in tafte- thev are ereene Winter anrl 9 
nnM tlf fT° r together barren as it is laid 6 
Sr M^l C “ tnC ?k fthed * <?,0 ( a tai ™! ecoIoilr > difperfing them felues far abroad vnder the 
± P T^ w Hlfr”' 1 ’ y mea a CS wh ? re0 / the y are of ten caft downe with meane blafts of winde 
*™ e rT° 0f the tr , ce 15 fttong,hard and brittle, it hatbnot fo ftrong &4pleafant fmell as 
that of the root, neither is it in fuch vfe. The leaues are of two forts fome ionf and ST L a 
not fmpt about the edges ; other. fome, and thofe chiefely on the end’s of the branches are dee ^ 
Iy gaflied m , as it were diuided into three feuerall parts I haue rk en A? fioEf V 
yeam s agS! ^ tree ^ hich B 1 ® • ^ Garden of Maftei Wtlmote ft Bow, whl died fome fS 
f The Place. 
erpeciaH y ,bo ut the of rio ri a. 
It flourifheth and keepeth greene Winter Id Sommer. 
