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that have no fpots, the leaveslikewife ofthofe that have fpots, fpring up for the moll part before Winter 
and the other not untill the Spring, there hath not any fruite beeneobfervedinthis, by any that 1 can under! 
Hand. 
S. Arif arum latifolium. Broad leafed Fryers Coule. 
The Broad leafed Arifarnm groweth in all things like unto the ^r»r»,having divers fairegreene leaves, vvhofc 
i middle rib on the upperfide, as alfo fome other of che veines are white iotr.etimes, and (omewhat thicker and 
i rounder pointed then the Arum, the middle [hike bearing the flowerf which is a crooked or bending hole at the 
. top, with a l'mall crooked whitifh peftell in the middle, rinfingoutofit,) is fpotted with red fpots, not riling 
I! fully fo high as the leaves, which are nothing fo (harpe in talk, as thofe ofthe Wake Robin, and doe alwayes 
1; fpring up in the end of Autumne, abiding greene all the Winter: after the huske or flower is pail, and the 
i greene leaves withered and gone, which will be in the Summer, then the berryes doe appeareon the toppesof 
theflalkes, greene at the firfhandofayellowifb red when they are ripe, which abide imtill the frofts canfe 
them to wither, and the greene leaves begin to appeare : therooteis white and fomewhat round, encrealin® 
:: much by of fets. 
6 . Ar forum longifotium. Long or narrow leafed Fryers Coule. 
The leaves oftliis Arifarnm, are very narrow and long, not riling fo high as the former, but rather lying on 
the ground, and doth more feldome beare any hofe, which is whicilh fmall and long, with avery long and linal! 
1 reddilh peftell in the middle, like unto a long worme, fcarfe riling above the ground, the berryes that follow 
1 are white and not red, the roote is white andround,fmaller then the former, encrealing by of fets, butnot in fo 
| plentifull a manner. 
7. Arum ,y£gyptium vulgo diftum Colocajia rotundiore cf oblongiore radice. 
The Egyptian C ulcus or Wake Robin with a rounder and longer roote. 
This Egyptian plant, hath becne the fubjecl of much controverfie, among many worthy and learned writers' 
I both of’our and of former times, fome applying it to tb.c fata sAigyptta of Diofcorides, wholehuske conteininii 
the fruite was called Cibariort, and whole roote was called Colocafia, and others refufing that opinion, call 
ic (imply Arum and lAtgyptium, becaule it was afpecies orkinde of Arum , that is thought to bee naturall 
to Egypt, as alfo to other places, as you fhall heare by and by, the defeription whereof f. in this manner: It 
Ihooteth forth divers very large and whitifh greene leaves,of the fafhion of Arum,ot Wake Robin leaves, poin¬ 
ted at the ends, but fomewhat rounder, each of them two footelong, andafoote andahalfc broad, not fo'thicke 
and flippy as they, bnt thinner and harder, like unto a thinne hard sktnne full of veines, running every way, and 
refilling moifture, though they belaid in water, (landing every one, onavery thicke ftalke, nere five'footelon" 
in the laid places, which is not fet at che very divilion ofthe leafe into two parts, as the wake Robin is, but more 
toward the middle, fomewhat like unto the water Lillies, the divilion of each leafe at the bottome.being fome¬ 
what rounder then thofe of Wake Robin : betweene thefe leaves after many yearcs continuance in a place un¬ 
stirred, there rifethupfometimebut one ftalke offlowers, andfometimes two or three, according to the a^e 
and encreafe of the plant, the (landing and keeping (for all thefe helpe to the fruftifying thereof, fbrelfe°t 
Would not beare any (lie w ofhofe, or peftell, or flower, as many that not having feene any, have confidently fet 
downe that it never beareth any) thereof in a large pot, or other fuch thing, and in a vvarme place and climate; 
each of thefe ftalkcs are much fhorter, then thofe ofthe leaves, and bearcthan open long huske at the top, in the 
middle whereof, rifeth up for the mod part three feverall narrow huskes or hofes (and never one alone, as the 
Arum or Arifarnm do) with every one their peftell or clapper in the middle of them, which is fmall, whitifh and 
halfe a foote lang,from the middle downwards bigger,and let round about with fmall whitifh flowers,fmclling 
very ftveete, thejlowermoftfirftflowring, and loby degrees upwards, which lad not above three dayes, and 
from the middle upward bare or naked, ending in afmall long point, after the flowers are all pad, that lower 
partabideth, and beareth many berryes, like as the Arum and Arifarum doe, hut much paler and fmaller, the 
roote is great and bulbous, or rather cuberous, in fome more round then in others, which are fmaller and long 
with the roundnefle, as great as the roote ofagreat Squill or Sea Onton, ( which I judge more properly, fpea- 
king thereof in my former bookc to be a Sea Hyacinth) mi one which Alpimu fetteth forth in his Hifioria *y£gjp- 
tiaca, with great long creeping rootes like the Reede, reddifh on the outfide.and whitifb within, having many 
bulbous or tuberous heads, (hooting from all Tides thereof, whereby it is encreafed, and with many great fibres 
(hooting therefrom into the ground. 
R Eaba iSEgyptiaDiofeoridio & Theophrajli cujut radix Colocajia dicebatttr, 
Diofcorides and Thcophrafhte their Egyptian Beane, whofe roote was called Colocafia. 
Becanfe the Egyptian Arum, hath beenefo milch miltaken by many writers that have called it the true Colocajia 
of Diofcorides mdTbeopbraJhu ■ let me here (hewyou in this place, the defeription ofthe true Co/ocafia, that is 
the roote of the Egyptian Beane, as Diofcorides and Theophrajhtt have fet it downe ; to affront the falle figure of 
; Matthiolus his Egyptian Beane, as he fet ic forth in his comentaries upon Diofcorides, moulded from his 5 owne 
imagination, and not from the light ofany plant growing in rerum nature, to make it anlwer the defeription, 
but hath failed chiefely in the finite, which is not cxprefled like to the combe thac wafpesdoe make, but farre 
differing as many have obferved,and ok jelled againll him, although as he faith, Odoardm did fhew it him at Trent, 
with many other rare plants, which he brought out of Syria and Egypt; the figure of the true fruite, Clujius 
hath fet for th, in the 51. folio of his booke of exotickcs ortlrange things, which was brought by Dutch Marriners 
from forraine parts unto Amfierdam, but w'as not then knowne where ic grew (but fince is knowne to be the 
Kingdomeof Java in the Eafl-lndies) who was perfwaded it might be the true fruite of their Egyptian Beane, 
unto whofe judgement therein, both Bauhintu and Coltmna doe encline, and fo doe I as you fhall heare by and 
by more at large, but for brevities fake, I will draw both the deferiptions thcreofby Theophrajhtt and Diofcorides 
into one. The Beane of Egypt, which fome call the Beane of Pontw faith 'Diofcorides, (but Theophrajtm men¬ 
tioned) neither Egypt nor Pontut, but onely calleth it a Beane) groweth in Lakes and (landing waters (plenti¬ 
fully in Egypt faith Diofcorides, which Theopbraftw fyezYeth not of, ) in AJia, that is in Syria and Cilicia, bnt 
there faith Tbeophrajhu,it doth hardly pcrfetl his fruite,but about Torona, in a Lake, in the Country of Ca/cidi- 
cum,\t commech to perfeflion,and beareth very large leavesflike thofe of che bncter-burre faith Diofcorides) the 
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