The Place and Time. 
The fitft groweth as well in Provence of France as in divers places of Italy, and in Candy alfo,and in many places 
of Gracia, but yeeldeth little gumme there, bucefpecially in the lfle ofChto, now called Sio- they tend, pruine, 
and manure it with as great paines and care,as others do; their Vines, which goeth beyond them in the profit of 
the gumme: It Howieth in April, and the berryes ripen in Septemb er, anti not at feverall times, as tllefe Vcrfes 
of Arams would intimate. 
Jamvero femper viridit femperejte cravat a 
Lerttifcasyriplicij'olita efcgrande/cere fata. 
Terfrttees fundent,tria tempera monfirat arantfi. 
As it is there fet downe. The lecond was brought from Amtnca, and grew,as SaMmi relatech it, in Cardi¬ 
nal! Columns, his Garden at Rome, where it grew great, which alfo as it is likely was the fame that Clufiut faith 
/ verardm Verjlim taw there, and as he faith llkewiie Doftor Tovar of Sivil in Spaine, Cent him fitch like bran¬ 
ches with the unripe fruite in clufters to tee, but as he faith , called MoHe by Tovar ; Label alfo exhibirctb a 
branch hereof with the next that is dented, at the beginning ofhis traffatc de Balfimo : dr ft < himfelfe alio ha¬ 
ving gained abranch hereof from home place not fpecifyed, fetteth it downe as taken from a tree growneold. 
ihelaft is mentioned likewifc by Clufiut in his Annotations upon Menardus, togrow as all the Chronicles, or 
Writers ofthe WefUndians (ay, inall the Vallies and Champion grounds of Peru, andef.ecialfy Ciena,, Petrus 
d: OJma alfo in his Letter to Monardut faith it grew at Lima in Peru. 
The Names, 
The Madicke tree is called in Greeke 54'®- which is /uncut oderatiu )ejuafi%rn fjjpip, ^ 
frequenter in Jentifcalputfindat«r, and the berries 9»<<«u and not otfnJk, as feme coppies have it, in Larine Lentif- 
cut afoliorttm lentorejfortaffe by which name all Authours call ic.and the gumme Refma Lentifcim, and MajlkL 
and Majlix by fome, by the Arabian! Gluten Rommum- Diofcerider maketh mention of a greene gumme as well 
as a white, andCWroof a blacke fort that was of Egypt, both which are not knowne in thefe dayes: i r 
Candy and fome other places, their trees yeeld a yellowifii bitter Mafticke, but no where fo good 
and fo plentiful! in all the world, as in the lfle of Sh in the Egem Sea: there is another fo; t of Ma'llicl; c 
re hich is called Acanthicc,or Spinalis as Gann trardlateth it, became it is gathered from a prickly thiftle, as I have 
fliewed among the Thiftles.in the Chapter of Chameleon and Cat Una. In former times our Apothecaries fnops 
were furnilhed with no other Xylobaljtmum , then the fprigs of Lentifius , I would the errour might not be con¬ 
tinued : The fccond is called Molle by Tovar, as I laid before,and by Cl, fits in his Caret poSleriore 7 i bal by Banbi. 
mis Lentifcus P era ana, and following £V*/>0 j faith, that it beareth the leaves according to the growth,being den¬ 
ted while it is young, and without dents growing older, which how diffonanf me thincks this is to reafon,in this 
plant let others judge upon my jadgemem,& the forme of the growing the one from the other,for the one that it 
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