*494 Ch a p.68, Theatrum 'Botanicum. Tr i b k 16. 
i Ficus vulgaris. The ordinary Figge rree. 
4. Cham*feus. The dwarfc Figge tree. 
ding downewards : the fruite or Figsesare fmaller.evenin our Country then the laft, but of the fame colour, 
and rcafonably wellftored on them, this is tenderer then the other.and is ufually planted in boxes,to be removed 
into (loves for the Winter time,and let abroad in Summer like our Orenge trees. 
The 'Place and Time. 
The manured Figge hath beene as I fuppolealwayes planted where it grew in any Countrv, the wild bein" 
found fo in fundry places, it is thought that both the other came out of Barbary into Spaine, Italy, and ocher 
places where they grow.and teareripe fiuiceboth in the Spring and tAngpjl, or September, which in Spasnc 
are after the gathering laid in the Sunne to dry,that they may the better be kept all the yea! c after. 
The Names. 
The tree is called in Greeke mitt and the fruite m. W,i n Latine Ficus both tree and fruite the wild Figge tree 
is called in Greeke outdid-) cl 1 and eeutlr by Galen stud others, in Latine Ficus fy he fir is, c~~ Caprifieus • the unripe 
fruite of the manured, as alfo of the wilde kindeis called in Greeke SawS®-, and in Latine Grojfus, but properly 
Olyntbtu, as well as Groffus doe fignifie the earcly ripe of each fort •• the dryed Firgcs are called in Greeke ipdJi, 
and offome W«*!,as Pau/us ts£gmetus and others, in Latine Carict, yet Pliny faith that Carica is a peculiar kinde 
of Figge, growing in Syria, foyou fee the word isufedbothby Greekcsand Latinos, the graines or (mail ker¬ 
nels within the Figge is called by the Greekes xsyx&ffiJbs, and by the Latines Ficoria,P tiny !,b. ,/,c.i 9 .calleth 
them Frumcnuyhc earely Figges are called in Greeke ntsS'i'pea ejuapprecurfores, in Latine prtcoect and Groff! of 
fome as is before laid, rhe branches of the tree are called Crude both in Greeke and Latine, yet Nictusder his in¬ 
terpreter doth call the Figges themfelves fo. In the Weft Indies where ic hath beene planted by the Spaniards it 
never Iooleth the leaves,God fo providing them a remedy at all times againft the venome ofrheir Spiders, which 
is the milkecommmg from the tree,when the leaves are broken off. jhe firfl is ufually called Fictssfativa, or 
commtsnUby alt; In our Summer Iflands they grow fo mellow, asthat they will be dryed at no hand to bekept 
long.as chofe in Spaine arc (which commeth to paffe as I thinkc, for want of skill in taking them in their fir time 
that is,before they grow too ripe and mellow.) The fecond as I (aid before is called Ficus fylveftris and Caprifieus'. 
The third is called Ficus nigra ,or purpurea, and of fome Ficus do ^digarva, yet fome doe hold that the laft or 
dwarfe Fig is moretruely called fo, and fome that they may be both called Ficus de Atgarva : it is generally 
called Cnamaficus ,qt httmi/is Ficus, ini Ficus pttmila by divcrle, XtfytWr/ixcallethit Chamsfyce arbore. The A. 
rabians call it Sin, or Fits, or Tin, the Italians Ficbi, the Spaniard s Hygos.tbe French Fifties, and the tree Fi, sister, 
the grrmar.et Fcighcnbaum,ibe Dutch Ftigtnboom, and we in Fnglifh figges, and Fiq°e tree. 
TheVertnes. 
The Figge tree is hot, and of thinne parts,which the milke that iffueth from the leaves and branches,being bro¬ 
ken, and the juyee taken from them,when chey are young and prefled forth, doe plaincly declare, bein'? excee¬ 
ding hot,not onely biting and fliarpe, or forcibly clenfing, but even exulccrating and offending the mouxhes of 
the veines.and taking away wartes, as alfo that it purgeth, yet is it not fafe to cake it inwardly, for feareofex- 
ukerating inwardly, yea the branches of the tree arc offuchan hoc temper, that if they be put to boyle with 
Beefs 
