An Appendix to 
the midft of thefe rifes another roundi fh head which carries three nailes or homes, biggeft atone 
and fmalleft at their lower end : this floure with vs is neuer fucceeded by any fruit.but in the Weft 
Indies, whereas it naturally growes, it beares a fruit, when it is ripe of the bigneffe and colour of 
Pomegranats,but it wants fucharing or crown about the top as they haue • the rinde alfoismuch 
thinner and tenderer, the pulpe is whitifh,and without tafte, but the liquor is fomwhat tart : they 
open them as they doegges, and the liquor is l'upped off with great delight, both by the Indians 
and Spaniards, (as Monardus witnefleth) neither ifthey fup off many of them fhall they find their 
ftomack oppreft,but rather their bellies are gently Joofned .In this fruit are contained many feeds 
fomwhat like Peare kerne!!s,but more cornered and rough. 
Clematis trifolia,fme Flos Pajsionis. 
The Maracoc or Pailion-flonre. 
This growes wilde in mod of the hot countries of America, from whence it hath been brought 
into our Engli fh gardens, where it growes very well, but flOuies only in fome few places, and in hoc 
and feafonable yeares : it is in good plenty growing with Miftreffe Tuggy at Weftminfter, where I 
haue fome yeares feene it beare a great many floures. 
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HAP. 2 . 
Of %ibes or red furrans. 
The Defcription, 
;a ihrubbie 
, . . , . -j — , — without prickles : the wood is loft and 
white, with a pretty large pith in the middle : it is couered with a double barke, the vndermoft be- 
ing the thicker, is greene, and the vppermoft, which fometimes chaps and pills off, is of a brownifh 
colour. 
■"p He plant which carries the fruit which we commonly terme red Currans is : 
A bull ‘ of the bigneffe of a Goofeberry bufh,but without prickles : the wood 'is foft and 
