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An Appendix to 
Perfea arbor. 
The Perfian Plum. 
Iohn Pla c a , Phyfition and Profefforof Vakn' 
tia, who {hewed me the tree growing in the 
garden of a Monafieneamilefrcin Vaien- 
tia, brought thither, as they fay,out of Amc- 
rica^nd he fat'd they called it oUrmey.- but 
the Spaniards who hauedefcribed America 
giue this name to another tree. But diners 
yeares after, I vnderflood by the moil lear- 
ned Simon de Tovar,, a Phyfition of Citiil who 
hath the fame tree in his garden, with other 
exoticke plants,that it is not called Mam,,-., 
but Aguacatr. Thus much out of Clufttts ■ 
where fuch as are defirotis, may finde more 
largely handled the queftion, whither this be 
th e Perfea of the Antients or no ? Sariornm 
flan. Htfi.l, i. c.i. 
1 • ‘ , • j 
Chap, i i.OfCjefners 
ivilde Quince. 
The Defcriftion. 
Cotonafier Gefheri: 
Gefners wilde Quince • 
T He fhrub which I here figure out of C/»- 
/«t, is thought both by him and others, 
to be the Cotonafentm orCrdonago } mentioned 
by Gefner in his Epiftles, //£. 5. fag. 88. It 
hath branches fome cubit long, tough, and 
bare of leaues in their lower parts, couered 
with a blackebarke : and towards the tops 
of the branches grow leaues fomewhat like 
thole of Quinces : of a darke grecne abode, 
and whitifh vnderneath, fnipt about the ed- 
ges: at the tops of the branches grow vfually 
many floures, confining of fiue purplifi] co- 
loured leaues a piece, with fome thrcddes in 
their middles rthefe decaying , vnder them 
grow vp red dry berries without any pulp or 
iuice,each ofthem containing fotire triangu- 
lar feeds.c/»y?«r found this flouring in lime 
vpon the tops of the Auftrian Alpes,and he 
queft ions whether it were not this which Bel- 
lonius found in the mountains of Candy, and 
called slgricmxleafib. j.caf. ry.This isnotv- 
ied in Phyficke, nor the faculties thereof 
knowne. 
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