Theatrum Botanicum, 
Tribe i 
Chap, 
tries of trance, did beare Agaricke : andinhisas.Bookeand 9. Chapter, he faith that Agaricke was butaMufh- 
rome of a white colour, growing upon a tree about the Bojphorw, and in another place that it groweth upon the 
Cone-bearing trees, among the which the Larch tree is the chicfeft: whereby it is plaine, that the ancients did. 
not well know it. Brafavolm faith, that in riding neare Comalch, he found Agaricke upon diverfe Oakes, and in 
Specially upon Ilex or evergreene Oake, which faying Matthiolus contradifteth, faying that in all Tuskany, an d ; 
other places of Italy, as alfo in diverfe countryes of Germany, Carniola and Dalmatia which abound with all 
the kindes of Oake, he could never fee, nor l'o much as heare that any Agaricke grew on them ; but that he faw, 
diverfe other hard dry Mulhromes, both white and blacke called touchwood growing upon diverfe, wherewith: 
the people nfe to take fire, that the tleele and flint doe give, and ufe it in dead of Match to difcharge their fow¬ 
ling pecces with all. As alfo that he never faw Agarickegrowing upon any tree, but the Larch tree onely, i n 
all the mountaines of Trent and Anemia, where there be many Oakes growing, as well as Firres, Pines, and: 
Pitch trees, and Larch trees abundantly: yet many doe affirme there is growing in many places upon the bodies 1 
of many trees a kinde of white Mufhrome, lo like unto Agaricke, that many millake it for Agaricke. 
The Vertues * 
There is in the leaves, barkc, and fruit of the Larch tree, the fame temperature that is in the Pine tree, the: 
Turpentine thereof taken to the quantitie of an ounce will gently open the belly, and move to the floole, provoke: 
urine, clenfe the reincskidnies and bladder, andhelpeth to breake and avoid the graved and [tone, and to give 
cafe to thole that have the gout: if it be firfl walked with Plantaine and Rofe water, then made into pills, with 
thepouderof white Amber, red Corall, Mafticke, anda little Camphire, it doth wonderfully helpe to (lay the: 
Gonorrhea or running of the reines, if they be taken for certaine dayes together, and taken limply fowled in Sugar 1 
it helpcth it well: it is profitable alfo for the Ptificke or Confumption of the lungs,being taken with hony in an: 
Eleftuary, it helpeth to expeftorate rotten flegme, from thofe are troubled with a continuall cough ; the Turpen- ■ 
tine as it is the cleared for inwardufes, andferveth in dead of thetrue Turpentine, fo is it the bed alfo for out¬ 
ward falves, and doth both draw, clenfe and heale all fores or ulcers, either new or old, andgreene wounds alfo 
and therefore there isfearce any lalve made for ulcers and greene wounds, wherein Turpentine is not put, there": 
is likewife an oyle drawne chimically from Turpentine, which is lingular good to be ufed in wounds, being more a 
drying andconl'olidating than theTurpentine it felfe, as alfo to warme and eafe the paines of thejoyntsand (i- 
newes caufed of cold : the waterthat is diddled with the oyle, is ufed for freckles and fpots in the face, a fcruple: 
in waight of that water, taken in white wine procureth a vomite, thereby giving much eafe to luch as have their t: 
flomacks overcharged with flegme, the oyle is profitably afed-in hollow ulcers, being dropped into them, or a: 
tent dipped in it and put into the ulcer: it is good alfo for the wormesand deafcnelfe of the eares ufed with a ;i 
little Oxe gall: l'omeufe to mingle bay fait and Turpentine together, and therewith fpread a girdle of leather, 
and tie it about their wades that have an itch, which by wearing fome fmall time, will cure the itch that is fpread i 
over the bodie, as well as the hands. Agaricke is a medicine of frequent and familiar ufe, often by it felfe, but: 
mod commonly with other purgers, to open obftruftions of the liver, fpleene, and intralls, purging fieeme in ef- 
peciall, but in 'generall all othervitious humors, offending any member of the body, and becaufe it d'otblome-- 
what trouble the flomacke, and procure calling, it is ufually correfted with Ginger, and given withOximelll 
that is fyrupe made with vinegar and hony ; for it purgeth both thinne and rotten tough flegme, both yellow, 
hard, blacke, and burnt choller from the head and braine, from the bread and lungs, from the (lomacke, liver, and i 
fpleene, from the reines and blacke, and from the wombe, as alfo from the joynts, finewes and mufcles, and here : 
by helpeth to cure the difeafes that proceede from them,that is fuch as are’troublcd with the gout,dropfie and fal- • 
ling ficknefle, Jaundife,thc chollicke and hardneffe to make water,the fciatica or paine of the hips,the pale colour : 
in women caufed by the (laying of their courfes, the (hortnelfeof breath, the cough and confumption of the 
lungs, the fpitting of bloud, the paines of the mother, the (harpenefle of urine and the wormes: it is helpefull 
alfo to cure all forts of agues, either tertians orquotidiaus, to eafe the griping paines of the flomacke and belly, , 
or fuch as have had fades or bruifes, or are burden bellied, all which aflions it chiefely performeth, by 
purging thofe groffie and vicious humors that trouble the parts and members of the body, and are the caufes of all I 
thefe difeafes ; it is an antidote againfl all poifons, and cureth the bitings of Serpents very quickly, halfe a drame,, 
or two fcruples being taken in wine, either by the infufion or the pouder: for the other difeafes afore fpecified^ J 
a dramme diced, and put into a gentle purging decoftion but not violent, or into an infufion, is the mod generall ! 
manner of preparing it to be given ; if it be boyledinlye with other Gephalicallhelpes, it much comforteth the :l 
braine and memorie, and giddineffe of the head to be walhed therewith, as alfo helpeth today the rheumesand ll 
catatrhes thereof, and clenfcth it much from feurfe and dandrafte. 
Chap. XLIII. 
Ziv/phusJive Iujuba. The Iujube tree. 
Lthough in former times, there was but one fort of Iujube knowne, yet now we have two or three il 
which (hall be (hewed in this chapter. 
1. ZU.yphusJive (tijuba major. The greater Iujube tree. 
The Iujube tree groweth fometimes to be very high, but more often to a reafonable height,ha¬ 
ving his flemme or body, bowed or crooked, and fpreading rather in breadth, the wood whereof is 
whitifh and hard, covered with a rugged barke, from whence fpread great branches, and from the lelferandi 
(lender whitifh twigges, about a foote long, full of leaves fet on both fides, not ufually dire&ly one againfl ano-:: 
ther, but one alittle above another, withanodde one at the end, each whereof is fmall, fomewhat broad and 
pointed at the end, dented or finely nicked about the edges, with long veinesin them, fmooth and lomewhad 
hard in handling,each (landing on a (hort foote (talke.and very like unto the leaves of fa/iuriti or Chrifls thorne:: 
