or huskes. 
chat hath them mixed with white and red. 
The manured kindes grow in Spai«e,Pc,tngail,ltaly, and in other wartne Countries, but with us prefcrved r 
and houfed with great care: and the wild kinde with much more : 1 hey 
flower very hardly with us,the firft not untill c May, and the other much 
later. 
The Names. 
The Pomegarnet is called in Greekeer'*' and egi, and by Hippocrates 
in Latin e Malut Tanka, and Malm Granata, and ttK frtiite Ma- 
/am gr aratam,or Pamcam, becaufe it is thought that they were broughc 
overfrom that part of where old Carthaga Hood, into that pait 
of Spaine, which is now called Granada, and from thence called Grana- 
txm : The flowers of the tame kinde as Diofcorides faith are called Cyti- 
»>,yet/ 7 i»yniakcth the flowers of the wilde kinde to be called C'ytimu, 
and the flowers both of tame and wilde to he BaUufitum , buc properly 
as I take it,Cytinue is the cup.whercin the flower, as well of the rame as 
wilde kinde doth (bnd,for unto their likeneffe, both the flowers and feed 
veffeis of Afarum ,and the leede vedels of Hyofcyamut arc relembled, and 
not unto the whole flower, and BaLaflium is generally with us taken to 
be only the double flowers ofthe wilde kind: the rinde of the fruitS is 
called in Creekcand aifitv, and foallo Pfidtttm and Sidiam in Latine 
but generally tMaliceriam or Cortex grana'.oram : The greater double 
blollomed kinde is called TSa/aulfiam Creticum and Cyprium, bccaufeic 
growerh in both places, and the lad iS called it omanum. The Arabians 
call it Kuman and Raman, the Italians Mein nran.ua, and Pomngranato, 
the Spaniards Granadas and Romanos, the French Grenadier the tree, and 
Pomede Cjrenadu .and Migraine the fruite, the Germans Granatoepjfel, the 
1 DutchGranaetappcl, and we in Englijb PomegranctorPomcgarneC. 
TheVertues , 
All the forts of Pomegarners breed good elood.but nourilh little, and 
are helping to the ftomacke, yet thole that are fweete pleafe bell, bu£ 
that they fomewhat heate it and breede winde, and therefore forbidden 
in agues, becaufe they breede choller •• the fower doe binde, and are fie 
for an hot fainting (lomacke, and (lay catling, and provoke urine, and 
are fomewhat offenfive to the teeth and gummes, in the eating: thole 
that are of a meane or winy tafle, are indifferent to each part: the 
feedes within the fruite, or the rinde thereof doc binde very forcibly, ei¬ 
ther the pouther or the decoftion taken,and (lay calling, the bloody fl’ixe,womens courfes either red or white th- 
fpitttng ofblood,andthe running ofthereynes; itis laid alio that they are good for the droplie : the flowers 
workethefameeffefts: the fruite is good againlt the bitings ofthe Sea Hare, and the bitings of the Scorpion 
and (layeth the immoderate longings of women withichilde, the decoftion ofthe rinde, crleedes ol the fruite’ 
with a little Syrope put to it ; is good againfl Cankers in the rr.ouih, and ulcers in the privy parts, the fundament* 
or any other part of the body, and is good againll the rupture, it belpeth alio the ulcers or running (ores in the 
cares or nofe, or rheumes in the eyes, to be dropped or injcdled, and faftneth loofe teeth, deftrojech the flat 
wormesin the body, and hclpeth to take away wens, or the like out-growings intheflefh: with the rinde of* 
ornegarnets inflead of Gaules, or elfe with the Gaules alfo^is made the bed fort of writing incke. exceeding the 
ordinary, both for blackcnefle and durability. 5 
Chap. LXXX. 
Prnmu. The r Iume tree. 
H F Plummes there is f<? great variety, as Ihave (hewed elfewhere, that it werejrnt aBam agere tore- 
peatc them here agatne. I will therefore give you a general! delcription ofthe tree (I meane the ma- 
w I r 1 T ldC u kln r de Wkic - h is 0Ur B ' a ^e thorne or Sloe.is extant in another Claffis of 
• ° , °fo) an that the fruite diftereth in forrr.e, colour and tafle, one from another with the 
a U nd NlX 7 ? t fer ««ablcunto. Vnto the Family ofthe Plummes belong both Apricockes, Pc ac he s 
Tbe Plnm rrm r u n 1 • Frun ‘ u falgari,. The ordinary Plummc tree. 
M r . Tradefiartt had a fort that boiePkji <t»- 
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