loic Chap. 24 Tbeatrum Bo tanicum . Tribe 9. 
the properties of the true Lycinm the j,ice the cof he ii g drawen forth in the litre manner that the ancients did 
flietv the true Lyotum was made: but the tree as he defcribcth it doth much differ from that of Ttwfcorida f 0 r 
as Garcitu faith his is a great tree asbigge as an >fh tree., having fine (mail leaves thereon like nnto Heath or 
Tamaribke( whereas Diojcond.es faith thathis Lycium is a (hrirtb with leaves like B x, full ofthornes and al> 
tvayes abiding greenej it bearethflowers but no fruit as the inhabitants reported uuto him : the rooteoftl etree 
is irrme heavy and rtrong.neythtr lubj'eft torottenneffe expofed to the weather, nor fwimming in the water, and 
thereupon called by ibtm Lignmafempervivum Evcrgreene wood. 
1, AgiahnUdncEgjftinca. Lycioaflinit. The Fgyftim tree like unto Lycium. 
This tree groweth to the height of a wildePearc tree, having but few armes or branches crooking many 
wayes in the growing, f t with many long and very fharpe thornes and fmall Box-like leaves with them but 
fomewhat broader, feldome but one andufually two at a joynt, the flowers are fmall and white like Oriental! 
Jacinths but letter, where afterwa dsftand final blacke round berries both bitter and allringent: the leaves alio 
are lomewhat lower and allringent. 
T he Place. 
The firfl groweth on the A Ipes rl Liguria and in Dalmatia as Lugdutmfu faith : the fecordon Mount Halchu 
and in divers places ot Italy the third Chtfim faith he found r eare unto Cemptutum in Sfaint by the R ivers odes: 
the fourth Lobtl faith was brought from Spaine: the lilt as laith groweth not farre from OMoinpe/,er neare 
til River Lanin : the (ixt as is fayd about Avignon and Carper.toraBe in France : the leventh and eight iii-Cmdy 
as Uomriut Belhu fetteth it downe in his fitll Epillle to Clujitu : the ninth on Mourt Lybantu and other places in 
Syria : the tenth in Egypt by the ba ekes of that arme of Nilm that is called Cahg that rurredi into the Sea : the 
eleventh groweth as Garcias faith in many places in the Indies where it is of great ufe: the laft A/pinm faith hee 
faw in the garden of a Turks in Cayro which was brought out ot Ethiopia. 
The Time, 
Their times of flowring and fructifying are according ro the countries where they grow, feme earlier and 
others later. 
The Name St 
The G- eeke name Ljc'.um (and mgayfyd* Pyxacantha ) is impofed on the dry ed juice as well as on the 
bu'fh, fo called as it i thought became it was brought out of Ljcia and Cappadocia, and was of much ufe in former 
times but not of la er dayes, becaufe what was brought was well knowne and perceived to bee counterfeit, be¬ 
ing made of the! erries of Privet or of the Honyfuckle or Doggeberry frulte or of the mall together, and had none 
of the notes of the true Lycium which are thcle; it isblackifh on the outfide of the whole cakes orpeeces, but 
being broken of a browniili yellow colour within, and quickly growingblacke a aine having no virulent lent, 
but ofa bitter tafte allringent withall: the Indiankmdt which is the bell will have a Safi, on like colom, and this 
efpeaall note the t. ur and bed will have, that being put into the fire it u ill bu* ne and flame, and being quenched 
it will give aredd’fh (feuminc fay fome and others a redd \(bt) fume or fmoakt : but that fophifticate or adulte¬ 
rate Lycium which of late dayes baih beene ufed hath none ofthele true propenie: in it: and Diefcondes and C/a- 
len doe both fhew that there wanted not impoftoris in their time,to cour.teifeit the true .and w ould mi xcAmurca 9 
that is, the Grounds or Lees of oyle with it romake itburne,and witbthe juice of W or me wood or the Gail 
of an Oxe to make it bitrer, and a- Galen laith they did lo cunningly counterfeit it that it w as hard to know the 
fall from the tiue. The firfl as the mod frequent is thought by divers and Lugdunenfis dandeth mainely for it to 
be the righto notwithdanding that An gullar a faith it is not the right Lycium although it be fo taken by divers. 
Matthiolw & Tabermontanm call it Ljcium,& Lugdunenfis,.Ljcium AlpinumfDodi>nau< ,and Lonicer m Tyxacantha, 
Label in Adz-erfariys fetteth forth a Lycium five Pyxacantha Narbonerfiu, which it may be is this, Bauhinw calleth it 
Lycium B nx if olio : the lecond ATatthiolw, Lugdunenfis and Tabermontanw call Ljcium halicum . Pona fhewtth 
in his defeription of M»ns Baldm that it is the fame that C ufiu* cal cih Spina infeftoria pumiL alter rf,and Bauhinw 
Ljciuih f-cie Pruni lylvefirufive It-.d.cum : the third Clupus calleth Ljcium ejuorundum^ and laith the Spaniards 
where it grew call it T'amujos and Tamurxos , and thereof make Broomes and heate their Ovens and Kills &c. 
but Lugdunenfis is much mdtaken in thinking this of Clufiw to be the fame that Lobc/\w his ppendix to his Gb- 
iervations calleth Lyuim H/fpamcum, which is my fourth fort here,and hath longer & narrower leaves then that 
of Chfjj.ui which hath rounder leaves more like Box and Bauhinw obferving well the differences calleth the one 
Ljcium H if panic um folk bitxi , and the other Ljcium Hifpanicxmfolio oblongo: the fift Lobel in Adverfariys calleth P a- 
hums alter psregrimw , sut hath m'ftaken the figure thereof in his leones , putting the figure of Pyracantha (that is 
of Oyacanthi Diojcoridis which as he laith hath an ever greene leafe,and is nottheBarba- y as divers do miftakeir) 
for it,which he fetteth downe in his Adverfaria,buz in his leones the laid figure of Pyracantha is put under both the 
tide of Paliuru* alter peregrinw and of Rhamnw tertiw r Diofcnridis alio, Bauhinw not takii g ir ro be any fpccies 
of Pal unu cal eth it Ljcium lat folium : thelixt Lugdunenfir faith Dalechampw tcoke to be a Lycium het there¬ 
fore cal it th it Ljcium Dalechampij and withall laith tharlome called it Tinttorium granum, that is in French 
Crair.e a teindre and others call it Grawejaulne and lotne Cjrainc d’ Avignon • BauhWns calleth ir Ljcium Gj alii cum 
and may be called Granum Avenioncnfe: the leventh Honor w Bellw ot f^andy faith if is there called Tout- 
zda of the inh b itanr-, but he himfelfe calleth it Ljcium Creticum, yet faith alio becaufe it is not the right Lycium , 
it may be called Berberis ellpina ant montana, for Silueriw 7 odefchtxus reported unto him that he found the very 
fame very frequent on Moant Lybww in Syria, Pona followeth BeHus in his Italian Baldw , and calleth it by the 
famenames, 'Bauhinui referreth it rather to the • arbery, making it another fpccies thereof andnotof Lycium : 
the eighth as BeHus laith is alio another lort of Ljcium, and called by the Candiots K&Cnyiei Lazegiri, and mr&a- 
pvyJkia. PctroamygdaU hoc eft petra* amygdala, but yet bath no refemblance to our Almond tree : the ninth is 
called cfClufiw Lycium legitimum Raurrolftf and l>y Ranveolftus himfelfe Frutexfpinofw peregrines AralibvA Had- 
hadh,inco\ii Zaroa. Bauhintu Ljcium Indicum folijs prunt: the tenth is by Prof per A lpm ft* called Lycium Indicum 
creditum, and laith it is called Vfeg by the Egyptians : Bauhinus calleth it Ljcium ludictim alterum : the eleventh 
is called by Garcias (fatefive Ljcium, and faith the true is called Hattjch,vjhkh thereupon I have intituled Ljcium 
Jr.dicum putatum Garcia, and by Bauhinus Lycium folijs Eric£ : the laft Alpinw faith is called by the Egyptians 
t/Tgiahalid and may not unfitly be accounted a LjclumfBauhinus thereupon calleth it Ljcio affinis t/Egyptiaca. 
