'J' r i b e 2. The Theater of T/antes. Chap. 2, 153 
form£ arid fhew to him, while he was refident there,) and often brought into the markets to bee fold : and being 
made into a coHrfcr thread, ferveth as cords or ropes in Ships, or other fuch like purpofes, and with it alfo they life 
being platted together, to worke into Sandals (a kinde of fhooes in much ule with the Spaniards, as well as the In¬ 
dians) into matces to lay on the ground to goe upon, or to lay any thing thereon to dry : and into (hort coiirle gar¬ 
ments,fuch as Shepheards and Shipmen ufe,to be thereby defended from heat and raine. 
Chap. II. 
iuccafive Tucca Indiapuiata. The fuppofed Indian Iucca. 
8 Nto thefe kindes of Aloes may mod fitly in my judgement bee referred, that plant which is ufually in 
thefe parts called Iucca or Tucca , for unto no other plant that I know can it better bee ad/oyned, the 
forme ofthe leaves efpecially being fo like, and although the flowers be differing, as may be percei¬ 
ved by the figure and dclcripjion, yet that letteth not, for fo alfo are the flowers of that of America 
much differing from thole of the true Aloes, whole defeription is on this wife. 
fucca five Tucca India furata. The fuppofed Indi.cn Iucca, 
Iucca five Yucca India puma. The fuppofed Indian plants . 
This rarfe Indian plant hath a great thicke tuberous roote fpreading in time into many tuberous heads from 
Whence flioot forth many Ion® hard and narrow guttured or hollow leaves, very fharpe pointed^compafling, one an¬ 
other at the bottome,.of a gray ilh'greene colour abiding continually, ot feldome falling away, with lunary hard 
threads running in thent> and being withered, become pliant withall to; bind things s from the nudir v/hereoi. 
