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7 beatrum Eotanicum. Tribe 3 »; 
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Solatia Tomifera. Applebearing Nigbtfh^es. 
4§^$2£|c^Nto thekindes of Nightfhade I muft, as divers other good authors doe, j’oyne fome other planter, 
which for their qualities, either more or leffe dangerous, or for their outward forme and propor- 
It groweth like common Nightfhade but greater, the leaves are like fmall 1 obacco leaves, the 
flowers are white, like the ordinary fort, the berryesare fmall and round, of an orient reddifh colour, with 
white feedes within them of an infioide tafte, aimofl without any heate or fharpenefle,and perifheth every yeare 
as Nightfhade doth, this differeth from UWaU *s£thiopka , although ‘Bauhinm make them to be one, for this 
hath no prickes, or thornes, on ftalkes, or leaves, nor is the fruite hard or creftcd. 
Solanumfruticofum Americanum dictum Amomum Pliny . The W inter Cherry Tree, 
This is deferibed in my former Booke. 
2. Mala Inf ana Syriaca. Madde Apples of Syria. 
r ' This raging or madde Apple, rifeth up with a great hard round purplifh or brownifh greene ftalkc, two footfi 
high, divided from the bottome into divers branches, whereon are fet many hairy broad rough leaves fome¬ 
what unevenly cut in on the edges, and fomewhat like the Thorne apple leaves; at the joynts with the leaves, 
come forth feverall large flowers, confifting of fix large pointed leaves, in fome plants white, in others of a pale, 
but deadifli purple colour, with yellow threds in the middle; which being paft there fucceedcth large, fome¬ 
what long and round fruite, in the warme countries, as bigge as a Cowcumber, but in others, feldomc bigger 
then a large great egge fet in the fame cup orhuske, that contained the flower before, whofe colour on the 
outfide, is ufually according to the flower it bore, either of a whitifh greene, more yellowifli, orofa grayifh 
afli colour, or of a pale or wanne purplifli colour, with a very thinne skinne or barke, and full of a whitifh 
pulpe, and Juice within, having many fmall flat whitifli feedes within it, fomewhat greater then thofe of the 
Apples of love, the roote is compofed ofmany firings, fome great, others fmall, not thrufting downe deepe 
into the ground,nor abiding but perifliing with the firft frofts. 
3. Mala Ethiopica, Madde Apples of Ethiopia, 
The Madde apples of Ethiopia, are fomewhat like the former, but that it groweth not fo high, nor fpreadeth 
fomuch, but having one upright ftalke, about halfe a yeard high, fet here and there, with divers fmall prickes, 
not very hard or long, and at feverall joynts with j'agged leaves, both letter, and leife cut in on the edges, then 
the former, efpccially the lowermoft, having fome prickes alfo in the middle rib, on the backefide, but thofe 
leaves that grow higher, toward the toppes of the ftalkes and branches, are much lefler, divided on the edges 1 
the flowers Band dilperfed on the branches at the j'oynts, confifting of fixe white white fhort leaves, with a yel¬ 
low pointell in the middle, of divers threds joyned toge- 1, solatium pomiferam herbariorum Lobelij . 
ther, after which commeth the fruite which is round and Lobels red berried Nightflude. 
a little pointed at the end, fmaller and harder then the grea¬ 
ter kinde of Love apples, and ftraked, and furrowed with- 
all in divers places, of an excellent red colour, and turning 
more deepe when it is ripe, having fometimes fmall bun¬ 
ches on them, like untoother fmall apples, growing unto 
them; and containing a j’uicye pulpe within it, fomewhat 
more fharpe then the former, but nothing fo moift as the 
love apples,with fuch like flat yellowifli white feede with- < 
in it : the roote is a tuft of threds, perifliing like wife eve¬ 
ry yeare, and fcldome in thefecoldercountryes commeth 
to maturity, to fliew his beautifull colour or give good 
feede. 
4. Lflfala Infana Europe a. Madde apples of Europe. 
This kinde of madde Apples, groweth with an upright 
round ftalke, to the bignefle of ones finger, a foote and a 
halfe high, from whence fpring forth at feverall j’oynts, 
fometimes on the one fide,and fometimes on the other, di¬ 
vers long and fomewhat broad greene leaves, unevenly 
cut in on the edges; and ending in a long point, three for 
the moft parr coraming together, each of them upon a 
fiiort footeftalkc: at the tops of the ftalke grow the fruite, 
which arc round reddifti berryes or apples of the bignefl'c 
of a Plum, full of feede within them. 
S. Poma amorii major a media dr minora 
Apples of Love,of a greater, lefler,and middle fize. 
Thefe forts of Love Apples, doe in all things fo neerely 
referable one another, both in the long trayling branches, 
the winged and divided leaves, the yellow flowers, and 
the red berries or fruite, as I have ftiewed in my former 
booke, chat I can adde no more thereunto. 
The ‘Elace. 
The firft was brought out of Spaine, the fecond groweth 
plentifully wild in as divers doc report, as alfo in 
Syria] 
