Tribe 3. 
The Theater of‘Plantes. 
Cha 
p.ii. 
Datura five Pomttm Jpinoftm majus flore alio cp- purpurea. 
Datura five Stramonium minus flare alio fimplici fir flare: purpurea fimplici fir dup/ici, 
Jhefe arc deferibed in my former Booke, and the figures of the lefler forts here exhibited. 
2 . Solatium poniferum Indicumfolio rotunda. sramniewn minis five perogtimm /implex & Unpin, 
Indian Applebearing Nightfhade with round leaves. Single and double fmall Thorny Apples, 
This plant being onely mentioned by M onardus, in his 
hillory ofthofe fimple medicines, that come from the Weft 
Indies, is referred by Tauhinus unto his Claffisof Thorne 
Apples in his Pinax, but (hould more properly in my judge¬ 
ment, be placed with the fruits, in the laft Chapter going 
before, called Maddc Apples, but that it hath farre more 
excellent properties. The plant groweth in manner of a 
{hrubbc or hedge bu[h as he faith, of an excellent greene- 
neffe, having leaves that are fmall, thinne and round, bea¬ 
ring long fruit, round at the lower end, and flat toward 
the ftalke, like unto the Malum infanum or Madde Apple, 
of agrayifh oralhcolour on the out fide, and of aplea- 
fant and gratefull talle, without any acrimony therein, ha¬ 
ving many very fmall feedes within it. 
The Tlace. 
The firft groweth in Syria and paDfiina, and other the 
countries neare there unto ; the other groweth in the 
Mountaines of Awa onely, a Province in the Weft Indies, 
and the feede fent unto Monardiu into Spaine, who fo wed 
thefeede, to make triall of the eft'efts, were declared to be 
in it* 
The Time', 
It is not mentioned at what time either of themflow- 
reth or beareth ripe fruite, but it is probable they varie 
not much from the feafon, of the other Thorne andMadde 
Apples, unto which they are fo like in forme. 
The Thames, 
The firft Bauhinm calleth Solatium fpinofum frueht re. 
tundo, which Ferr antes Imperatus of Naples, calleth Po - 
mum Hiericonticnm: the other Monardiu faith came to him 
under the name of Caches, as the Indians it is likely doe 
call it. 
The Venues'. 
There hath not any Phificall ufe beene remembred of the 
firft; whereuntoit ferveth ; but Monardiu faith of the other, that was fent him out of the Indies, that it is of 
great eftimation there, both with the Spaniards and Indians themlelves,in that it provoketh urine, expellech gra¬ 
vel! and the ftone in the kidnies and bladder, for which it is mod commended ; itbreakeththc done in the blad¬ 
der, if it be not too hard and inveterate, or may by any medecinCs be diflolved, whereof there were many 
proofes (as Manardui faith! declared to his great wonderment: for as he faith, he did not thinke that the ftone 
in the bladder could be diflolved, and expelled by any medicines,and that the cure thereof confided onely, in the 
cutting of it out by a cunning hand .-but it wasfaid of this, that the feede taken in any fit and convenient water, 
for that purpofe, will by little and little ditfolve the ftone into fmall graved, which after rf is expelled forth, will 
againe be gathered and grow into a hard ftone. 
Chap, XI. 
Capficum. Ginny Pepper. 
5 @S>3|Ke Ghmy Pepper in mine opinion is fitted to follow next after the family of the Nightlhades, be- 
tjtv, mg in outward forme likeft thereunto, as alfo being no lefle dangerous, although in a quite con- 
i trary nature, for this is as farre exceeding in heate, as the other in cold : hereof there are found 
out, or at lead brought to knowledge many forts in thefe dayes, which were not knowne in for¬ 
mer times, or negledled and not fo heedefully regarded at lcaft, as they have beene of later time, 
“J efpecially by Gregorius de Reggio,aCipuchine Fryer, who hath obfetved adozen feverallvarie- 
ties at the lead in the finite or cods, although very little differing in any thing elle. All which I thinke it not 
amiffe to fhew you in this Chapter, with fome others alfo not obfetved by him, but by Clufius and others. 
1 . Capficum maps vulgatitts ohlongis fi/itjnit. The mod ordinary Ginny Pepper with long huskes. 
I propound this Ginny Pepper as a patterne, by which yee may frame the deferiptions of all the reft, the chie- 
feft difference confiding in rhe forme of the fruite whether you will call them huskes or cods, as fhall bee 
fticwed every one in their order. The plant it felfe rifeth up with an upright firme round ftalke, with a 
certaiiie pith within them, about two foote high in our Country, and not above three foote in the hotter, 
fpreadinginto many branches; onallfides, even from the very bottome, which dfvicie themfelves againe into 
other finaller branches; at each j'oynt whereof come forth two long leaves upon fhort footeftalkes,lomewhat 
bigger then thole of Nightfhade, elle very like, with divers Veines in them, not dented about the edgesatall, 
and of a very fad greene colourthe flowers ftand feverally at the j'oynts with the leaves, very like unto the 
lowers of Nightfhade,con filling of five moll ufually, yet loinetimes of fix white fmall pointed leaves, (landing 
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