149 2 Chap, 67. T beatrum Botanicum , T r 1 b e 16. 
3. MorwVtrgin'tana, The Virginian Mulberry. 
The Virginian Mulberry groweth quickely with us to be a very great tree, fpreading many armes and bran¬ 
ches, whereon grow faire great leaves very like the lad: the fruite or berry is longer and redder than the firft 
When it is tipc,and very plealant alfo. 
. - The Place and Time. 
The two Former forts are noui fed op as it were in Woods or great Orchards, in the Levant Countries to 
nourifh their fiike Wormes, where they keepe abundance, and may peradventure be naturall in fome ofthofe 
places ; they are plentifully alfo nocirfcd up in Italy for the fame purpofe: but the lad as the name importeth came 
from Virginia, where it groweth hugely, with great (lore of great leaves and final! (lore of fruite, but in the 
leafon with the other, which is in Mj and Affgafi, yet the leaves of them all appearethelaftof all other trees. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greekemfi* andwasiyii’©- More* & Sycamines, in Latine Morns • fome call the firft VMortu rss- 
bra,md others nigra, in our fhoppes Moms celfa cjitafi excelfa, as a didinflion betweene it andthe brambleffa- 
btts, whofe berryes ate called alio Afora^ but batiis added to know it by , the white is called Morses alba & Can¬ 
dida by MtBelloniise l'aitb that the French doe falfely call ic Sycomorw, but we (hall (hew you the true Sycomortss 
by and by. The Arabians call it Tut and That, the Italians Moro, the Spaniards Moras del Morale the French 
A leaner and Aieure, the Germane s Mattlbcrbaum and Alanlbeer, the Dutch Mooerbefcemboom, and we in Snglijb 
Mulberry,ar.d Mulberry tree. 
The Verifies, 
Thr Mulberry is of different parts,the tipe berryes being by reafon of their fweetenefTeand flippery moidure, 
opening the belly, and the un; ipe binding it,elpecially when they are dryed, and are then good to day fluxes and 
latkes,and the abundance of womens courfes: but the barke of the roote hath a flronger purging quality, and a 
bitcerneffc withall, whereby it is able to kill the broad wormes in the bodyof men or children : the leaves and 
young tender copp.s have a middle or temperate faculty ■■ the ripe berries if they be takenbefore rneate, doe 
make paflage for the red to follow, but if after mcare, and palfe not quickely away,they corrupt in the ftomackc 
and draw the red on co putrefaftion with them, otherwife they trouble little : thejnyce, or the fyrope made of 
the juyee of the berryes, helpeth all infl.mmations and lores in the mouth or throate, and the Vvula or pallate 
when icis fallen downe: the jujeeof the leaves is a remedy againft the biting of the fpidef Phalangium, or any 
other Serpent, and for thofe that have taken Aconite , the leaves beaten with Vinegar is good to lay on any place 
chat isburnc with fire: the leaves of the Vine, of the earely Figge,and of the Mulberry, boyled in raine water is 
good to wafh the haire,to cleare and to give ic a faire colour: a deception made of the barke and leaves is good 
to wafh the mouth and teeth when they ake: if the roote be a little flit or cut andifmall hole made in the ground 
next thereunto,in the harved time it will give out a certaine juice, which being hardned; the next day is of good 
life to helpe the toothache, and to diffolve knots,and purge the belly : the leaves of Mulberries are faid today 
bleeding in any place of the body, whether it beat the mouth or noftrils, orthe bleeding of the piles, orofa 
wound, being bound unto the places : a branch of the tree taken when the Moone is at the full, and bound to the 
wridof a womans arme whofe courfes come downe coo abundantly, dothday them in afhortfpacej theleaves 
iaidtodeepe in urine doe takeaway the haircs from skins. 
dsip, L XV11. 
Sjcomonu. The true Sycomoreor Mulberry Figge. 
P feKffi S' Here are twoforrsofthis Sycom^re tree,the one bearing fruite out of the body, and greater armes of 
thetree onely,theo:hernponftalkes without leaves. 
1. Sjcomorut five Ficus cy£gyptia. The Sycomore of Egift. 
This Sycomore groweth to bea very great tree,bigger then the Mulberry tree, with great armes 
and branches,and thereon full of round ar d forr.ewhac long leaves pointed at the ends, and dented 
about the edges, very like the round leaves of the Mulberry tree, but harder and rougher like Figge leaves, this 
bcarcth fmall figs or fruite, and no flower,and that differing from all other trees, for icthiudcth tl em forth from 
out of the very trunkeor body it fclfc onely, and the elder branches next Co the body, and now here elie, and are 
very like unto white or wilde Figges, and of the fame bigneffe, but much fweeter, and without any kernels 
therein, the whole tree and every part aboundeth with milke, if the barke be but gently wounded, for ifdeepc 
itgivethnomilkeatall, which maketh ic to beare three or fottre times every veare, new rifing out of the places 
where the old grew (cue whereas Thecphraftw and FDiofcorides lay, that tire fume : ipeneth not, unleffe they be 
fcratched with iron fcratchers,and that within foure daits after they will be ripe, tbeufe in thefe dayes, where 
they grow is, that they doe afeend the trces.and with fmall knives,cut a fmall peece from the head of every fig, 
while they are grtene.and after the poorer fort of people eate them. The wood hereof is follid, hard and blacke, 
and abiding frcfh,and as if it were ffillgreene long after ic is felled, neither will become dry, unltfi’e it be kept 
under water, and therefore is fitted to make piles in Marfhes,or waters. 
1. Sycomortss altera fen Ficiu Cypria. Another Sycomore or Figge of Cyprus. 
This other Sycomore groweeh to be as great as a Plummetree,or white Poplar tree, whofe armes and branches 
are (bored with broad and fomewhat round leaves, likeumoche Elme (which made THofcorides fay itwasan 
Elme) bat indeed very like unto the former: this alfobeareth fuch like fruite like Figges butfmaller, evenno 
bigger then plummes which rife both from the body,and the greater armes, but not immediately out of them, as 
in the former, but on certaine (balkcs in branches, which rife by themfelves, without any leava6 with them.and 
areas fweete as figges, and beare alfo foure times every yeare, but not unleffe they be flit, that the milke in them 
may come forth. 
The Place mi Time ', 
The firQ groweth chiefly in Fgipt' t in Syria alfp,and Arabia, and offiir the places neere thereunto : the other 
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