. 4.98 Chap.^o. 
Theatrum Botanicum. 
Trib E 16 , 
ibcm willcaufe the urine to be tinned like blood it fdfe: the roote gtoweth neither deepe nor farre a- 
broad. 
a. Ticw Indian jpinofm minor. Thelefferprickely Indian Figge.' 
This lelfcr Figge groweth more often with us, from leaves as farre as I can learne.yet J have knowne it rife 
from the fowne feede, and never into a body or ftockc like the forme*, and is in all the roll as like it as may be, 
with out any difference but oncly the greatneffe.which in this is neither halfe fo great or thicke, or the growth 
halfe fo high, and this declaration may be Efficient to deferibe it by comparing the former difeourfe herewith 
that I dee not make a double repetition of one thing. 
3. Cochenille five Fki Indici gratia, The Dyers graine called Cochenille. 
There hathbeene much doubt and many variable opinions, concerning the breeding of the Cochenille fome 
taking it to be the Coccogmdium verum, others to be the Chermes Arab urn, and that it differeth not from the Coc¬ 
cus Baphicue of the Grecians, Fragofiu would feeme toknovv more then others, and in his third Booke and 1 y. 
Chapter,faith that they are 
riliejufcicmlndtl frvtlii. The fruite efeirher of chc Indian Figge trees. 
cerraine graines that grow 
in Pern, at the rootes of 
certaine (mail plants, that 
are like unto the common 
Burner Saxifrage, cleaving 
to the rootes of it like wild 
Grapes, but is utterly erro- 
nious for Peru, bis opini¬ 
on as ic feemeth being ta¬ 
ken from Angteilara, and 
Lacuna, who (ay [hat there 
are certaine graines found 
in f me places here with us, 
growing on the rootes of 
the BumetSaxilrage, whofc 
i mer pulpc doth give a 
crimfon dye, and is there¬ 
fore called Cocciu radicum, 
that is, the roote graine .- 
fome have taken them to 
be dyes, or fuch like cove¬ 
red with a finall thin skin 
or cafe, and flicking under 
the leaves of this Indian 
F igge : but Iamnei de Lae c 
of Antwerpe, in his fifth 
Booke and third Chapter. 
dcfcrip i i0n Indies, fhewethus the truth hereof more exaftly then Oviedu, ormanv 
=> H ,h ,b aV ? Wt ! t r, th f rc ° - 1 lb l nlcc > * nd faith that belides the two'ttild forts, whereof one giveth no fruite 
n the ocher fo pnckely that it is of noufe, and the tame or manured fort thatbeareth fruite thac isvervfweete 
and of a moil plealanc tafte, and either white which is eftcemcd the bett, or red or purple,which dyeth the hinds 
rn/dv °° d f yC0 '? Ur ’ .^-as ^nlbenyeswilldoe, and beingeaten coloured foeurine alK rhefame 
h d y . ' T h f ! S ?“!) heano ' ll =f fort, called by the Indians Nochezcli Nopalii ,or NopallNochentli which 
a though ,t beared! not Inch like frmte yet it ,s more accounted of, and husbanded w fo moVe care and diligence 
theaunciews’ T as a diminitive fromihe ct«"of 
fooauncicnts.fomuh lou B ht after,and u(_ed by Dyers,for the excellency of the colour: This plant loveththofe 
places that are temperate : Hirreraddcribethche manuringand ordering thereof, and* Laet from him in this 
mann-r : The graine Cochenille is bred on the tree, which is called Tuna, in very many of the Countries of the 
*" 1 L .> cncreafcd inrhofe places that are o- 
whereby itiscnccaicummoie places rnacarco- 
pen.andyet defended from the North : It isa living creature,or rather a kindeoflnfefl orflye, nor much dif- 
hen^r'andTsrcd f r c eCrC r n d° ' 'w™ ‘T^i being fo™what leflc then aflea, when it firft getteth to 
den P rb r ‘then Zt £ fu "° D, - SS " ^ a " hand wor ™> and doe-fo loade the trees, and fill the whole Gar- 
b " them . tW,CC ev "y y™ c from the trees, which they fee in order and tend like their 
ee the ?l r T weedes.or whacelfe may hurt them : the younger the trees be, the more plentifully 
w 1 they beare,and the better graine but efpec.ally rt is neceffary for them to cleere them from the other flfisof 
H>e% and no Idle keepe away their hens,who will devoure the graine .- and to cleare their tree, from [been- 
cri u f r •-, lu ucaic uicir tree* rrom treen- 
wirho?! , Z °J y c S,t n y F ,°f ecailef > a " d when they are grownc full ripe, they ga.her them 
Lr , h 5'l C "fi ^k.!' Aa e ”J? T mon C . ht l™’ andd, y tbcm in the fliaddow, and keepe them in 
bvVo'mc b by caftln S a(h " “ mon £ ft , 1 hen, . and afterwards wad, them, and others choke or. kilt them 
hehcMc \ ayC r ! 1C18 tFe bell way to kill them with cold water. Burnow this graine is adulrcratcd 
no mep ( ’ n ftCr dlvEr * n ’*nners,for there are foure forts to be found heyeof: the one giverh a colour of 
nur 8 r a re nr? h 3S u Clng * ca' fortand not ma ™ red : another blacker,which groweth alfo of it fdfe, wicb- 
minpi?m 0 cr?n andr n\ a !o \ c Eallt d Chuhimecu, a „dofa meaner regard, all which they 
hallfL? 8 ^ " h the f °H rth s tfla t is the bell and manured. The divers forts hereof among the Merchants 
wherebvrheJS lr aCCOrd i, ng as the Sfaa^rdi call them : every fort according co the goodneffe hath a name 
bS,i?7 V ?Zl/> aa . S ‘ lv, fi tT ™‘i Tuikaltobe, the two word forts, being of a blacke dull colour, yet the 
horh infir ' . • 7 is a gray fort, and is the mod ordinary wehave.but the Golhaca, is in colour betweenc 
both, in fife no bi og er,but in goodneffe much excelleth them all, and is not much inferior to the Rofetta, which is 
cbe 
