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fparfedly let on the dry laplefle branches, which are lower then it and more Gummy whereon the flowers Ann A' 
11. Ciflm LedumfoliUThimi. Time leafed fweete Ciftus. - 
This Ciftus beateth fmail leaves not much unlike Time leaves on the clammy blackiflh {mail branches 0 f ah™,» 
a footc high; the flowers hereof were not feene no more then in the laft, butthc heads of this weremanvftan 
ding together upon long footeflalkes. without any feede in them. y - 
>’■ Mjrto Cifim Pcrmei. D r . Penny his Mirtle like Ciftus. 
The Mirtle like Ciftusof IX Pemj his finding, is a fhrubbe of foure or five foote high, vvhofc ftalkcs and 
branthcsarc covered with a rugged barke, fee as it were with knobbes or bunches, which quickly fall awav 
from the elder branches ; the leaves are very like Mirtle leaves, and are no Idle rugged then the barke vet or™ 
imooth intone, and are fet one againft another at every joynt, bedewed with that lweete clammy raoifture « 
in others, the flowers are fmail and ycllow,confiftingof five long leaves,with many yellow thieds in the middln . 
after the flowers are path, come fomewhat long five iquarc heads with fmail feed-, therein. e » 
13. Citlui Lad.mifcra(fretica vera, The true fweete Gum Ciftus ofCandy 
Although I fayd in the beginning of the Chapter of male Ciftus that the male kind onely boare red j 
the .emale white, including the Ledum under them, which as I faydalwaycs bore white flowers ver rh' * 
nerall rule ad mitteth fomc exception, as in this plant I here doe fhew you, which groweth in Candy In ,? ge " 
dantly ; ar.d from whence alio onely the Candies gather Ladanum as BeRetiut being there truly obferved ° Ul j 
not from the other forts of Ledov, and A/pimn faith the fame by the relation ofothers who hath chusdelrrih d" ’ 
It groweth to a cubits height or more, with fundry long wooddy branches, with two and fometimes more I "* ' 
fet thereon together at feverallfpaces one againft another, being greater then thole of the male Ciftus f cave * ! 
what like unto Sage leaves, and bedewed very much with that fweete clammy humour or Gum called 
mtm efpccially in the Summer time, the flowers that grow at the toppes ofthe branches are like the male r'lt *" 
and of a purplifli colour, but greater then they, after which come fmail long and round hard blackifhl A 1 
containing imall feede within them. A'.pinm joynech hereunto two other lorts of baftard Ciftm Ledtm th*' 
whereof is uot as he conceive* lit to bee called Ciftus, having little or no refemblance to anv hav.'ml T 
ftalkes and branches with a few fmail long leaves like unto Privet, fet ar certaine long diftance’s one f acr 
ther, with white flowers at their toppes, much lefl'er then thole of Ciftus, without anv fenr and bZZnrJ'T 
mbheke pods afterwards. The other baftard (ort hath many foft ftalkes with loft woolly leaves there • 
forme like Mirtle leaves or lefl'er, two or fburc (landing at a place by diftar.ces, the flowers are whi-e ,.a r 
thefeede veltels be ofthe bigneffe of Cichepeafe.and the fmail leede yellow within. lC * nd fma11 i 
The fUce,. 
A|! thefe forts of Ciftus grow onely in the warmer countries of Frame, Spain, Portae alt, Italy Candy and 
other Eafternc parts, and not in any of rhele colder countries that ever I could Icarne f the twelfth MWe like 
Ciftus Dr. Peaty a famous Phyfltion of London in his time, found in the Ifland Majorca, and (hewed ro Cludt Xl 
dryed pi ant,which he kept by him,and gave him the defection ofit,which he publifaed with the other m print- 
the laft and the two baftard forts grow in Candy, from whence we had the knowledge of them. ° P - 
The Time. 
All thefe lorts of fweete Ciftus doe flower earlier by much in their natural! countries then they doc in ours ’ 
for they never arc in flower in our countries untill My or Augufi, and feldome doe give any ripe leede ’ 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke Leden, and U*e Ladon, qni, (ferfat) folia get levin at, niudafuttj'dpoti*, rau.bra 
(t-pannofa, the Latins keepe the Greekename, and call it Ledum, becanle they all have that clammVlWewn 
huinoar on them more or iefle, and Ladum, f-om whence commeth the name of Ladanum. which is thar Wr 
gumme ,s gathered from the leaves and branches of but one fort as Mattbiolu, and Cafa/pinm feeme to avmmh 
and Belton,m averred, in h.s ftrft booke ofoblervations and feventh Chap, but others fay from many of them and 
is moft ufed now adayes in perfumes to fmell unto,and to burne, yet fometimes Phyfically alfo : the manrer of 
gathering whereof in thefe dayes is fom-what like one of thofe wayes was ufed in Diofcorides and P/Mes,Z° 
which was that they ufed to Men long Ropes but wee now long Thongs of ra w or untanned Leather to a lone 
poale or ftlcKe made like a Rake, without teeth, which by drawing them over the bull,es, gather that dew nr 
gum that isupon them and in the heate of the day and Sun, they ferape it from thofe Thongs, and make ftun 
into balls or lumpes: the ocher was to combe of that fweete gum from rhe beards and haunchel of the S 
that browled and rubbed themfelves on thofe bufhes that grew in the Ifle of Cyprus -.the Arabians cali che ™ 
Charm ,.and the gumme Leden an d Laden, the Spaniards call thc’firft fort Xara, Xareuna, and Xaeuaeca Zn fd l 
InracPp. M Unfit, faith = but the fourth kind of CA&r which is the fift here, heftith they call Ardiviefi *£ 
otner Clmftran nations I thinke follow the, reeke and Latme name, with fuch diverfitie as their Dialeft affo 
deth; wee as I fayd may call ,c Ledum as others doe, or the fweete Ciftus, or fweete Gum Ciftus whether 
you will: it needeth not to make any long repetition of references of every oneofthefe feeing rhe J 
are Clufiu, his relations, and may caiily face found by any which is which V " g the mo11 of thcm 
7 he Vertues, 
Becaufc all or mod: of thefe lweete Ciftus are more hot then the former lorts ver nnr lefl> Arvlnr, 
then any of them, they are ufed to warme and dry up all cold defluxions of the braine and cl/rvfeh thatthl 
gum Lad.mnm is hot m the end of the firfl degree, almoft entrinp into the feconft and’harh home M m- Ct tV- e 
in It : furthermore it is of a thinne fubftance, whereby it is mollifying and moderately dmeltinv and^herehv 
very effeftuall in the hardnelfe and other difeafes of the mother, ro eale the win*"Thereof '^and S ’to heale rh fe 
v.cers th It happen therein ; by the taking ofthe fume thereof undcrnea.h o' T PP yt tin the lubftance beine 
made up with Stoma; and honey, in a LeU or Eleauary.it is very profitable J the Cough iflt be old or'inth! 
Longs .being taken inwardly it provoke* Vnne, and (lave* the laskc or flux of the belly ’and eafeth the gri- 
pmg pauses thereof proceeding from chollerick fliarpe humour, & is very good for all fowe?^betchings orr^fting - 
being uieu an oyntmenr with Mirrhe.oyle of Mirtle. and Wine, it ftayeth the falling of the hafre and bafdl 
nefle thereupon s it helpeth alfo the paines in theeares, being uled with fame oyle of Rofe bcfaL diflolvedin 
wine, and the places waited therewith that have any fearre or deformity therein, it doth wonderfulljalter *e 
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