STribe 6. 
The Theater of Tlants „ 
Chap. 23. 773 
• n „ (T.hOance is waterifbjip feme fweete, ir. others a little tarte or feure, the feede whereof is fmaller, roun¬ 
der blacker and harder fhelled than thole of the Gourd, the roote fpreadeth and dieth like the reft. 
- 1 2 jnguria Americana verjlcolore pelle. The difcoloured /»&«» Millioh. 
This other fort of Million varieth little from the former in growing, leaves or flowers, in the fruit is the 
chiefeft difference which is as great as a middle fifed Pompionwith adifcoloured barite very variably fpottcd 
an d ftrfeed with white fpots and markes upon thegteene, the inner fubftance whereof is waterifh, yet feme- 
what firmer than ofthe former, and,will keepe lound for a good while after it is ripe and gathered, as the others 
alfo will the feede within this is like the other, but longer, greater, redder, and more fmooth and fhiping. 
' 3. Angaria eAEgyptiac*. £^;pr;-i«Citrulls or Millions. 
Some of thefe Egyptian fruites are greater than others, even fo great as Bellmius faith thatfoure or fixe will 
loade a earned, and one a man; the outer rinde being yellow, the inner meate or fubftance very little and almoft 
* wa _ .. - m. __ ..t,-#. in ,rrsr ,t mfirn riPlirPii onrl nriml/f* nir _ 
have'eivenyou the figure ofthisfruit in the former tripartite table in the foregoing Chapter. 
4 Anguriacarne lignofa. Hard or Wooddy Millions. 
Cafalpinus maketh mention of this fort as of a kinde of Cow cumber ( for fo the IMans doe call thefe forts of 
fruits that growing wilde or manured in other countries are nurfed upm Italy for delight and ramie) whofe 
fruite is fo hard and wooddy, that it will not breake being let fall upon the ground, but will rebound againe like 
a ball that is let fall: Hereof I have no further knowledge than his relation, that is, teftufide d,gn K1 . 
The ‘Place. 
The firft groweth generally throughout Titrkie, and fo likewife in all Italy and many other hot countries, 1 
Where they doe account it for their bell of Cowcumbersthefecond was given me among others rarities that 
came out of America or the Weft Indies the third is natnrall to Egypt, as P'ofrer Alpmus faith in his Booke 
of Egyptian plants; and Bellamys in his fecond Booke of Obfervations, and 75. Chapter: the laft is not 
knovvne or not mentioned where it is natutall. 
The Time. 
They flower and beare their fruit about the fame feafon that the others doe, 
1 The Names. 
It is thought by divers thatthis kinde of ftuit was not knowne to the ancient 6reeke or latine Writers, and 
that er£tim did firft make it knowne by the name of . 4 »g«ri«j,from whom CMatthio/us and others doe ca! 1 it: o- 
thers doe fuppofe that it is the Pepo of Diofcondis, Galen, and Pliny ; but J thmkc it not amiflc here to relate the 
words otGalcnin 8. )mpl. medicament. VniverfaPeponumnattirafrigidior, cum larga lumiditate exijlit : fed ha. 
tent quoque quandam abBergendimm : atqui (JUelopeponts minus humidi, quam Peponesfunt • by which words one 
may more than halfe gheffe which of thefe forts of fruites come neareft unto Peps, and CMelopepo of Galen, and 
thofe of his time, unlcffe our climate alter their fubftance or propertie. It is generally called Citmlrn or Citrullus 
.« citreo colore & forma,ondCncumii Citrullus by divers, todiftinguifh it from the other Cowcumber. In the 
Chapter before you have Pliny alledged to account the Cowcumbers that grow; over great, to be called ‘Pepones; 
and here you have that thefe f'itrulls be accounted Cucumeres as Cafalpinus and all Italy over doe account them 
commonly: fo that you fee how various mens opinions are inthefe forts of fruites, none knowing direftly which 
of them is mod: truely the Pepo or Adelopepo of the ancients, nor which is their Citrulls, whether this that beareth 
that name as the Italians take it, or our ordinary Cucamis commonly fo called writhus Alpinys inhiaBooke of 
Egyptian plants, faith, thdt the Egyptians have divers of thefe forts of Citrulls differing one from another which 
they diftinguifh by the fevetall names oiChate , Abdolavi,Chajar ctrc. Of rhe Arabians it is called Batec, and Ba— 
techet , and as it is thought is the Dulhaha of Serapio ; but Bellamys, in the place before alleagcd, faith, that the 
Egyptians call it Copotis, and that Angaria fignifieth a Cowcumber, and is not this plant: of the Italians Cecomero 
and Angoria ; ofthe Spaniards Cogombro, of the French CitrouUes, of the high and low Dutch following the latine 
name Citrullus, and fo wee in Englijb ; as alfo Turkic Million or Cowcumber, Lecaufe that others doe call it 
Cucumis Ttircicus, 
The Venues , 
The Citrull is of the fame temperature with the (gourde, that is, cold and moift: the feede is moll of ufe in the 
Apothecaries fhoppes, and reckoned one of the foure greater cold feedes, being ufed as (gourdes, Millions, and 
Cowcumbers to coole the heate of the fits of agues, and the diftemperature of the liver and blond, to quench 
third", and to take away the drineffe and roughnefle of the tongue caufed thereby, and is as available for the' 
ftonc, the heate of the raines, and the fharpeneffe and flopping of urine as any of the reft. It is thought more 
convenient for macilent bodies, and that are growne feeble and weake by long fickneffe, in regard of the greater 
fweetneffe more than in the Gourde, as aforefaid : and generally both leaves, branches, ;uyce and dilfilled water 
hereof, is as effeflually applied for all thofe difeafes that the Gourdes before mentioned are, and therefore neede 
not againe be repeated. I (hall referre you to the Chapter going before for the reft. 
Chii. XXIII. 
Intubacea plant*. Endive or Succory like herbes or plants, 
(Nder this generall name of Planta Intubates. Succory like herbes, is comprehended Id great a varietie, 
that toexpreffe them in feme methodicall manner, I muft diftribute them into, feverall Chaptersundcr 
their principall heads or titles, whereunto they are to be referred, which are, Endivia, Cichoriuw, 
‘Dens Leonis, ChondriSa, Soxchtu, Lampfana, Hieracium, Lacluca, Senetio, and Iacobsta • of feme of 
which I have fpoken both in my former Booke, namely of all the forts of Garden Letcice, and in this Worke of 
gll the forts of Iacobaa and Senetio, Eirftthen tobeginne with Endive, the kindes whereof alfo I have (lie wed 
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