JL * b. j. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 15 
and induftry,they haue perifhed at the firft approch of winter, as not being able by reafon of their 
tenderneffe toindure thecold ofour Winter blafts. 
The Time. 
As touching the time ofhis fIouri(hing,and bringing his fruit to maturirie, we haue as vet n^i 
cerraineknowledge,butis thoughttobegreeneboth Winter andSommer, 5 ' ° 
% The Thames. 
This mod notable tree is called by the Indian name c^//e:offome,iW/y,and Mnelle, taken from 
his tender foftnefle,as fome haue deemed:it may be called the Fennell tree, or one of the Balmp ™ 
Balfam trees. ’° r 
«J The Temperature, 
This tree is thought to be of an aftringentor binding qualitie-whereby it appeares befides the 
hot temperature it hath, to be compounded of diners other faculties.' 
The Vertues. 
The Indians vfe to feeth the fruit or berries hereof in water, and by a fpeciall skill they haue in A 
the boiling, do make a inoft wholefome wine or drinke,as alfo a kind of vineger,and fometimes ho- 
ny ; which are very ftrange effects, thefe three things being fo contrary in cade. ’ 
The leaues boiled, and the decodion dtunke, helpeth them of any difeafe proceeding ofa cold B 
caufe. 
The gum which iflueth from the tree, being white like vnto Manna, diffolued in milke, taketh C 
away the web of the eies,andcleareth the light, being wiped oucr with it. 
The barkcofthis tree boiled,and the legs that be fwolne and full of paine, bathed and walhed D 
with the decodion diners times, taketh away both infirmities in Ihort fpace. 
This tree is offuch eftimation among the Indians, that they worfhip it asa god, accordin'* vnto E 
their fauage rites and ceremonies : much like as Pliny reporteth of Homers Moly, the mod renowned 
ofall plants, which they had in old time in fuch eftimation and reuerence, that as it is recorded the 
gods gaue it the name of Moly, and fo writeth Quid: 
Pacifer huic dederat fiorem Cylleniut album, 
CHoly vacant Superi, nigra rad/ce tenet ur. 
Ifany bedefirous to fee more hereof, they may reade a learned difeourfeof it fet forth in the La- F 
tine tongue, by the learned Lcbel,vtho hath at large written the hiftorie thereof, dedicated vnto the 
right Honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine,at the Impreffion hereof, faithfully ouerfeene and ex- 
amined by the learned Phy fition before remembred,M r . Dodor Browne, and his ccnfure vpon the 
lame. % Together with Lobels reply, who judged this plant (and not without good reafon) 
to be akindeot the true Balfam of the Antients,andnot much different from that fet forth by Pro- 
per Alpimte, whereof I haue made mention in the foregoing chapter, f 
Chap, 147. Of the Qanell \ or (finnamon tree , 
«[f TheBefcriplion, 
* "T’Hc tree which hath the Cinnamon for his barkeis of the ftatureofan Oliuetreeihauing 
1 a body as thick as a mans'thigh, from which the Cinnamon is taken ; but that taken from 
the fmaller branches is much better : which branches or boughes are many, and very ftraight ; vv her- 
on do grow beaut: full leaues, in fbape like thofe of the Orenge tree, and of the colour of the Bay 
leafe(not as it hath been reported) like vnto the leaues of flags or flourc de-Luce :among thefe plea- 
fant leaues and branches come forth many faire white floures, which turne into round blacke fruit 
or berries, ofthe bigneffe of an Hafell Nut, or the Oliue berry s and of a blacke colour ; out of which 
is prefled an oilc,that hath no fmell at all vn till it be rubbed and chafed betweenethe hands:the 
trunke or body with the greater armes orboughes of the tree are couered with a double or twofold 
barke,like that of Suber, the Corke tree : the innermoft whereof is the true and pleafant Cinnamon, 
wb ich is taken from the tree, and caft vpon the ground in the heate of the Sunne ; tbrough the heate 
Nnnnnn a ’ thereof 
