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The Theater of 'Tlants. 
Chai\68. 
in Cyprus, Cana., Rhodes, and ocher the places neepe 
them: they have not beene brought into Italy that l 
can learne: their Time is exprefled in their defecti¬ 
ons. ( 
The Names. 
The firfl is called in Greekc vuMpos©- and avi&yav©- al¬ 
io by l’ome, but not rightly as T)io[corides faith; in La. 
tine alfo Sycomorw , and Ficus Egypt™, the Egiptian fig, 
and is the true Sycomore tree, and Theophrakus calleth 
it ( Jiiorm yEgyptia, lo called as Galen faith, from 
the likenefle of the tree and the finite unto the Mulber¬ 
ry, and the Figge. Bellomus faith the Egyptians now 
adayes call it Ficus Pharaoni.s in their language, and 
fome Gutmets as the Arabians d oe, the other is called * 
by Theophrajlw Ficm Cypria in Creta t (JMxtthiolus cal- 
lcth it Sycomorefimilit, Cordus on Diofcorides , Sycomorus 
in Cypro, and Lugdunenfis from Raurvo/fiw Ficm Egyp- 
tta Diofcoridis, Sycomorus GrxcorHm f and Mttmeitz. of 
zht Arabians, 
TheVertues , 
The fruite of the Sy.comore trees agree well in the 
belly, and maketh it foluble, but is troublefomc in the 
ftomackc, by the overmuch moifture, and givethbut 
little nourifhment to thtf body : the milke that is ta¬ 
ken from the tree, by wounding it gently, and after¬ 
wards dryed-and made into Trochifces, and kept in an 
earthen pot, hatha property to mollifie hard tumours, 
to foder or clofe together the lippes of greene wounds, 
the fruite it felfe being laid plaiftcrwife, vyorketh after 
the fame manner : the faid dryed milke rfgood againft 
venemous creatures and the plague, the fame alfo ea- 
fetb the paines in the head and cares, and is drunke by 
them that arc fplencticke. 
i i. SvtO/aorui Jive Ficus Agyptia W Cypna. 
1 lie Egyptian and Sywan Mulberry riggcciee. 
H 93 
Gh a p. LXVIII. 
Picui. The Figge tree* 
i r ®'jfyi” f T S ° ftr t? t arc called Fi S" e trees > vcr y much differing in kinde one from ano- 
ther I wrll therefore in th. s Chapter oncly flrew you the fotta of our ordinary eatiiw Hg ° e “ that 
grow in Eunpc, and after wards ofthe relf,that have not heenc declared before. = ft8 L 
T .. I_. Sum futivufme vulgari,. Tlie ordinary rigge tree. 
I his ordinary Figge in our Country in feme places, I have feene as great almoft and as 
which a' a hrfl PP " CrCe ’ h W!t1 ' h Sra ^ rUgged barkc ° n the bcd J’> ar| d cider boughesEnd greene on the youn-e r 
Ton >h anH h frT° r P‘ th >’ | lnthem ^ dle - the eaves grow (ingle on the branches', being lung and iarg/ thickc’ 
rough,and of fad a green colour on the upperfidc.and whitiflr undeineath.divided into threefbuc ufuahv i, ’ 
pres, yeelding a (harpe bitter, and almoft exulcerating milke when thlv «7 bro T be ? f 
Figges alfo will doe when they are greene, the fruite breaketh out from be b-anhes without anv flowe^ ‘ 
arc both of (undry colours, of (overall fires, and ripening at contrary timesof the ye," as alio Irh h i " d 
thinner skins that cover them, thefe that are moll ordinary a re white, and of a reasonable bigneffe. H k “ ^ 
~ r , : v - ,-cc . „ Capripeiu. Thewilde Figgetrce. 
fn.s Figge tree differed) not fromthe former but in growing not fou rc at,and that rhe fruite is fmiii j 
that,Cfe" T n h g °" ,a hing off unripe and are nothing fo fweete or pleafant as the m-rmelf 
tnat is npeandmellowior foft, but likeit whileitisgreene and hard, " k “ ‘“red, 
,» , l\ e,c ”‘’»ff r »fv‘prMox. The blew Figge eardy ripe. 
’If , a f ° d ‘^ cr f u n c t 1,1 C J e g ro ™ lr, g from the former, but r'ifeth not to that greatnefle, the forte b -I 
ike the former, and of the fame fize and bigneffe in Spume and other Places, but ofadarke Burn eb adfi£ 
lour, with an eye of blew as it were call over them and blackifli red rhrnimhn,,, n ■ “■■‘c»ifh co- 
fweete as the ordinary white Fig e e is: this IW’tree be, e* t wicr be ^ ' r, " S "° C '“i iy fo ,uflli us 
is, in the Spring about Aprill, and afterwards in 8 the Autumne^hen the otter are rTpe^ rfiofein^heSra' 5, ?*' 
feldome ripen ktndely, for want ofthe heaie ot the Sunne, and by rcafon of the mo^Jre ofthe (eafon vE 
rhe.y very dehcious,lo that they qmckely both putrifie if they be kept 1and nnr arrifiri'iii i a i * s ^ cc are 
^corrupt alfo in their ftomackes that eate them, and therefore none tUtfth eate^he^St thev muff dri 
Wine after them, to helps to digeft them, for if they palfe not qnickely out of the Ske but nutrlSh ,e 
they put them in danger to tame them into a leaver : and this is that kinde of EEvS. t Ec P . h tkere " ,J 
for the bed kinde growing with us, which is ufually planted againft a wall,and yet wiM not r Sri ** hl -'u 
c . 4 - C h am £ ficus. Tfig dwarFe Figge tree, 
he dwarte Figge tree growedi not much higher with us then to a mans ihoulders, with (lender branches ben- 
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