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to bathe the parts requiring it, and is profitably uled in that manner to ftaythe bleeding ofwoundsTand at the 
mouth or nofe to be applyed to the torchead,and napeofthenecke. 
Chap. XXIV. 
Mclpiluf. TheMedlir. 
Here are obferved (undry lores of Medlars whereof three were knowne to the auncient Writers the reft 
areof later invention. 
1. Mejpilm maxima fativa. The great manured Medlar. 
The great Medlar groweth ncere to the bigneffe of the Quince, but never fo great as an Apple tree 
thatever I faw, fpreading branches,reafonable largely, with longer and narrower leaves then either Apple or 
Quince,and not dented at all about the edges,at the end of the fprigges hand the flowers made of fivelwhite<> re a' 
broad pointed leaves, nicked in;the middle with fome white thredsalfo : after which commeth the fruite be¬ 
ing round and halfe flat,of a brownilb greene colour being ripe,bearing a crowne as it were on the toppe which 
were the five greene leaves, as a huske wherein the flower flood before, which crowne of leaves beme’rutbed 
off or falne away, the head of the fruite is feene to be fomewhat holiow.the fruite is very harfh before it be mel¬ 
lowed as is laid of the Services before,ind hath ufually five hard kernells within it. 
2. Mcsjilus vulgaris five minor. The ordinary or fmall Medlar 
The ordinary Medlar diftereth in nothing from the former, but that it hath fome thotr.es on it, in fcverall pla¬ 
ces,which the other hath not, and that the fruite is fmall and not altogether fo pleafant. 
3- Afejpilur minor folio ferrato. The common Italian Medlar.. 
This alfodiftereth in nothing from the laft that hath thornes, but that the leaves are dented about theedees 
when as the other is not. 5 5 
4 Afcifilus fr»Bu albo magno, The great white Medlar. 
This differcth not from the fit ft fort but in the fruite, which wilfbe as great as it, and more white then it beine 
ripe on the tree, and will notbe fobrowne when it is mellowed, the kernels alfo within chem are notfo ftronl 
or hard. s 
l.CWelpilmAroniafive Neapolitan*. The Medlar of Naples. 
The Medlar of Naples nfeth to be a reafonable great and faire fpread tree,bearing broad leaves, cut in or divi¬ 
ded on thefides into fcverall parts,but not to the middle ribbe lomcwhat refembling the Hawthorne leaves, with 
thornes let fomctiines on the branches and fometimes without, the flowers grow in tufts like unto the Service 
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