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liouourthey call btroldhooturOpMfamnm, of fSiSoupuKdi.r 'BatfamcUon, and the berryesor fruite of the tree 
i W p«./ 3 dwc|lw Carpobal[amnm,mi W*»F" Cafimum, and the (prigs or young branches thereof Xy. 
I lobalfarmim. Divers of the auncient Writers have made mtntion of this tree,but fo diverfly that many do thmke 
; they wrote of a thing that was not, or that was not feene and knowne unto them, at the leaf! the deferiprions 
, are fo lame and feemefo to vary one from another, yet if they be warily and wifely confidcred, they maybe 
i brought in fome fort to agree thereunto, but for n:e to argue much in this matter, and the particulars would re- 
ouirea great dede of time and roomc, which cannot be fpared here, I muftreferre them to Alpmm mdBellmi- 
™ that would be further fatislied herein,who have more largely entreated of this fubjeft. 
1 T he Vertues. 
This Balfame tree faith (?«*«,» het and dry in the fecund degree, fo that it is fiveete in fmeil being oFthinne 
Darts- but the liquoc or Opobalfamnm, is of more chinne parts then the plant it felfe: the fruite or berryesisve- 
llk ‘ jtin anility, but farre inferiout thereunto in the fubtility : The Iiquour or Opobalfamm,i s of great good 
ufe a°ainfl all poyions and infeaions.both Vipers,Serpents a id Scorpions, the pclhk-nce and fpotted fever;,and 
all other outride and iutettnifSve agues that rife from obllruftions, and crude cold .amours, to take a temple or 
two in fome drinke for fome dayes together, and to Iweate thereon, for this opencth the obflrudlions of the liver 
and fpleene and dweflechthofe raw humours in them.cherilhing the vitall fpirits.radicall raoifture, and natural! 
hear in them and ?s very cfFeftualt in all cold griefes and dilcafes of the head or Homacke, helping the lwimmings 
and turnings of the braine, weake memories, and the falling fickneffc : it clearcth the eyes of filmes or skinnes, 
overgrowing the light, and eafeth the paine in the eares, and their deafencfTe and other dileafes, to be dropped 
into the eyes or eares, it helpeth the cough,ffiorcneffe of breath, and confumptipn of the lungs,by warming and 
drying uprhedillillations of iheumeupontheir, and all other difeafes of the ftomacke proceeding of cold or 
w-nde the cold or windy diflempers alfo of the bowells,wombe or mother, procuring torments and paires, or 
the col (moiftures procuring barrenneffe, procureih the courfes, delivereth the dead birth and after birth: the 
fluxealfoofthe whites and the (lopping ofurine : itcler.feth alfo thcreinesand kidneyes, and frecth them (tom 
the generation of Hones in them, and Jxpellcth the gravcll or Hones in them: itisfingu’ar good againlt th e pal- 
fie, crarnpe, trembhn"s,convulfions or fhrinking of linewes.and for greene wounds, the mod fpeedy operatour 
of any • from the lingular eftedt whereof all other medicinesmide for the health of the body or to heale wounds 
were called Balfitmum, Balme. The women in Egypt, herewith as A/pintu (heweth, preferve their beauty, and 
young forme lot a Ion" time, the berryes arc efpeciall good againfl poyfons and mfeftions, the filling ficknelfe, 
the fwimmings and paines in the head, the cough, and difeafes of the lungs, the windy paines and dtthes in the 
(ides, the redraint of nrine,and the riling of the mother and other difeafes thereof to fit in a bathe made of them s 
the wood worketh the fame effedls but in a farre weaker manner. 
Chap. XC. 
Styn IX Arbor, The fwccte Storaxtree. 
Efides the Storax tree.that hath ufually been knowne and deferibed by allmod all Writers of Herbs,; 
and which I am now about to (hew you, Bastkinw from Honorim Bellus in Candy, hath exhibited 
another fort, whereof he is fo briefe, that little more can b- allured thereofby his relation, then 
the name,and the confidence of his judgement from whom he had it, that it may be referred here¬ 
unto. A third lore is th e Storax rubra. whereof we have leffe knowledge then of the bd. 
1. Styrax arbor vulgaris. The ufuall Storax tree. 
This Storax tree growcih very like unto the Quince tree, both for forme and bigneffe, the leaves alfo are long 
and round and fomewhat like but farre leffe,whitilh underneath and iliffc. The [lowers dand both at the joynts 
■with the leaves, and at the ends of the branches, confiding office or fixe large whitifh leaves, like unto thole of 
the Orrengc tree with fome threds in the middle, after which come round berries,let in the cups that the flow¬ 
ers flood in before, of the bigneffe of Hafell nuts, pointed at the ends,and hoary all over each Handing on a long 
foeteflalke, containing within them certaine kernels in fmall (hells: this yeeldcth a mod fagranc Iweete gum, 
and cleare,of the colour of btowr.e hony, if we might have it hnccrc without mixture, which yet wee in ImalL 
drops have had. 
2. Styrax folio Aceris. A Storax w ith Maple leaves. 
From a round blacktfh rugged roote covered with a crelled,ot as it were Joynted batke come forth out of knots 
three or five broad leaves like unto thofeofthe Maple or Plane tree, handing on (mall blackifh long (lakes, and 
are divided in three or five parts,full ofveines dented about the edges, and pointed at cheend-. 
# 3. Storax rubra. Red Storax. 
This thing that formerly was called Storax rubra , wasabarkeot fome kind of tree, and thought to be the 
NaTcapbthm) or Nafcaphium of Diofcorides, but Cordut on Diofcorides (canning the matter fomewhat more fen- 
ouflydetermineth it to be a thing utterly unknown.'to him in his time, and by the cheapeneffe of that barkc. 
that went under that name,faith plainely it was too efteape to be right, ‘Diofeoridts making Nafcapbthtm to be 
like the batke of the Sycomore tree, as fome coppies have ic,or the Mulberry tree as others and broughc from In¬ 
dia being of a fweetc cr pleafant lent in fumigations as well by it lelfeas mixt with other perfumes: but Mat- 
tbiohts tak"th Nafcapbthum,to be that whir h was called Tigname in faops, whichashe faith the Italians called 
Aoallecbo that is Lignum Alecs , and fo Cor dm alfo faith, that one hhannes Roderictu a Portugal! tooke the 
Nafcapbthum to be that which in their fliops was called Palo iaguiUa LignumAyuila, that is the fame with Lignum 
Aloes,™ aforefaid.but Cordm midiketh that opinion,the Lignum Aloes being a wood and the Nafcapbthum a barke, 
yet although this long difeourfe be fomewhat from the matter in hand, yet leetng it fell fo fitly ta fpeane ol :Na. 
fcapbthum, I coidd not doe otherwife then (hew you what others have thought thereof, in that as 1 (aid divers 
tooke it to be Storax rubra, when as no auncient Authour mentionerh it: but both Serapio md Avicen divide 
Styrax into Liquid* mi jitca, by liquid* anderllanding the pure guinm: flowing from the tree.and not that 
