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for I thinke he knew not the next hereunto which I call fylveftris, and is called Zi^yphui fylvefh-is alio of Came- 
rariufyOf Lobel & Pena lujuba fyfaefirjs. who think it to be Rhamntu altera or Paliurm Theophrafii, mentioned in 
his 4. booke and 4. chap, of Iohanncs Pona in the delcription of Mom r Baldns Cham^^izypha and Zyzypha fylve- 
firis. The Arabians call it ffo^wand Hanab, and Zufalz, of the Italians Cuggiole i the Spaniards zAzufeofa&~ 
jicofeifo , the French Iujubet and of fome Guindotiles, the Cjermanes Rothnfibeere t and Ertffibeer/in, the Tiutche 
Jujuben and in Snglijb Iujubes, ■ 
The Vert ties. 
The Iujubes (efpecially while they are frefli much more than being dry) doe open the body and gently purge 
choller, and denfe the blood.thus faith Aquarius and Simeon Sethi , yet c JMatthwlns following the opi¬ 
nion of Avicen, denyeth that they have any purging quality in them at all: all authors doe agree, that they coole 
the.heate and (harpenefle of the blood, and therefore good in hot agues, and doe helpethem that have a cough, 
to expe&orate tough flegme, and is good for the other difeafes of the chefts and lungs,as fhortnefle of breath, hot 
diftillations,&c. proceeding from hot humors; it is alfo to good purpofe ufed to den fe the raines and the blad¬ 
der from gravell, which it perform-eth by the vifcuous quality in them, in making the pa (Pages flippery, and the 
gravell and (tones to avoyd the more eaiily, they alfo (lay vomitings procured by fharpe humours; but they are 
hard of difge(tion,and doe not eaiily palfe out of the ftomack,being eaten either frefii or dryed, they are therefore 
ufed in deco&ions alwayes with other things, fit and convenient for thofe griefes aforefaid. 
Chap. XLIIII. 
1. CMyxosfive Sebefien. The Sebeden or Affyrian Plum. 
Scbefiw. The Scbeftcn or AlTuian Plum. 
SslHe Sebeden tree groweth fomewhat lower then the Plum tree, covered with a whitifhbarke, the 
branches arc greene, whereon grow rounder thicker and harder leaves then they •, thebloflomes are 
J T white confiding of five leaves a peece,growing many together on a long dalke, which afterwards 
glfggf tume into fmall Berries rather then Plums, or a blackifh greene colour when they are ripe, every 
^ ~ one danding in a little cup,of a fweete tafte, and glutinous or clammy fubdance, and a very thicke 
skinne: within which lyeth a threefquare hard done,with a thicke (hell and a fmall kernell: thefc are gathered 
and laid in the Sunne whereby they gr«w wrinkled, and 
fo they are kept, and brought over unto ns in boxes. 
3. SebefienJylvefirie. The wilde Sebeden. 
The wild Sebeden is in all things like the other,but that 
it groweth lower, more like unto a hedge bufh,and with 
letter and thinner leaves; the dowers and fruit are alike 
but lette. 
The Place. 
The fird groweth in Sjria&nd is but planted in Egypt, as 
Alpintti faith, and from thence weie brought into Italy , 
in 1 ‘liny his time, which were grafted on the Service tree, 
and do now grow in many places there in their Orchards : 
It is fo tender, not enduring the cold with us, that wee 
can as hardly keepe it, ascaufe it to fpring, the (hell of 
the done being (o thicke and the kernell fo fmall: The o- 
ther as Alps*** feemech to averre, is naturall of Egypt. 
The Time . 
They dower in c Jhlay y and the fruit is gathered in Sep - 
tentber. 
The Names. 
The tree is called in Greeke y-vZ,©- and the fruit 
uoi'ct and yoEaetct a muccofofruttws lent ore \ enim muc- 
cumfignificat) in Latincmjxos for the tree, and Myxa and 
Myxana for the fruit : it is thought as Ruellins faith that 
the Syrians in honour of Augttfiw, called them Sebafi*, 
from whence the Arabians called them Sebefien ; and the 
Apothecaries in their (hops ufe that name oncly. 
The Vert ties. 
The Sebedens by the judgement of both Arabians and 
Greekes doe open the body in the fame manner, or ra¬ 
ther more by reafon of the muccilagines in them, then 
Damaske prunes, yet more while they are greene, and 
lette when they are dry, yetthedecoftionofthem, or the 
infudon of them in broth,although dryed and taken whole 
worketh edeftually, which Fufcbiui denyeth, affirming that they binde rather; they ferve to coole any intern*! 
perateheate of the ftomack or liver ; and therefore are good in hot agues, and to purge choller whereof they* 
come: Matthiolm laith that he hath often found by his experience, that ten drams or twelve at the mod of the 1 
pulpe of Sebedens, taken from the skins and (tones, worketh as well and to as good purpofe, as thepulpeof 
Coffin Fifitila ; they are very effedhiall alfo to lenificthe hoarfeneffe and roughnefle of the throate: they helpc 
the cough and wheefing of the lungs, and didillations upon them, by lenifying the paifages and caufing much 
flegme to be avoyded: they alfo give eafe to them that are troubled with paincs in their (ides, and mervelouflyl 
helpeth them that are troubled with the fharpeneffe of their urine, proceeding from choller or fait flegme *:« 
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