Tbeatrum ‘Botamcum. 
154.4 Chap.98. 
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Gr.mm Amyidalaram & Perficoram. Almond and Peach tree Gnmrnes. 
Both thefe trees likewifeyeeld Gummes very like unto the Plummc and Chetry tree, that it is fomewhac 
hard to diflinpuiflr them, but that they are fomewhat whiter and a little dryer. Thus having (hewed you all the 
Gummesof thcTrecs chat are knowne tous, let me in the next place (hew you theother lorts of Gums, taken 
for the mod part from the rootes of Herbes and plants. 
4. Grim Tragacantha, Gum Tragacanth. 
This Gumme as I have (hewed before in (peaking ofthe plant called Goates thorne is taken from the rootes 
hereof astheygrow, 1 pit being made round about the roote,which will in the greateft heate of Summer, be¬ 
ing deepely wounded, thiulf forth very (lender fmall peeces, crooked or writhed, fcldome greater then a ragges 
point, or ones fingers end, and mod ufually a great deale (mailer; fome very pure white, and others a little yel- 
lowilh, and (ome more reddiflt, much of it gathering droffe, which fticketh falf unto cither barke or Hones, or 
earth, ortheiike: theguminc itfelfeis lweetifhin tafte, and quickcly relenting in water intoagelly, hke 
made (larch,and glewing things together as firme as (larch or glew, in (mall and thin materials. The properties 
hereof are declared with the plant. 
5. Opopanax. The Gumme Opopanax. 
This gumme taken from Panax, the Allheale of Hercules is a yellow gumme, very browne on the outfide and 
yellow within being broken,the bed is pu e or fincere,that is, not mixed with ftickes or droffe, but cleane gum, 
and in fmall drops.yet flicking fad togethcr.ofa fowrifh lent, and fomewhat firong, and being diffolved with 
wine or vinegar, will make it looks yellow, even as the herbe it felfc, being broken will yecld ayellowfapor 
Juyce inourowneLand: from the rootes chiefly and not fromthedalkcsis this gumme taken, inthelikernan- 
r e as I (hewed you of the gumme tragacanth by digging a hole round about the roote,and laying boordes or tyles 
or the like, round about and in che bottoms to keepe the gumme cleane, from earth, dones, or any other thing 
that might foule it,falling among it after the roote is cutin threeorfoure places, aslomedoe, or making ahole 
or two therein as others doe, whereunto the gumme will be drawne,and from thence flow fortlvlr. the Claflts of 
Vmfcelliferous plants ate the Vertues exprefled whereunto I reterre you. 
6 . Gaibanum. The GumGalbanum, 
The great Feralaot Fennel! giant of one fort, is the plant from whence this gumme is taken, and that notin 
ev.ry Country for that onely which grows t'n in Syrians Diefcoridi faith yecldeth Galbanum, the rootes being 
wounded inti e fame manner as is before laid ofth e f m.v: th: gumme (mellcih ftrongeft of any ofthe Fera- 
laccmv gummes, and is if it be fincerc a little ycllowiflt, with white peeces amongfl it, and clivers parts of dickes 
crftalkesbrok'namongit, and fometimes the feedes alfo, fo clammy and tenacious that one can hardlytouth 
it without cleaving to their finger;,and diffolving onely with wine or vinegar. 
7. Sngapmim. The Gum Sagapen. 
As Syria bringtth forth the Praia, from whence Galbanam is taken, fo is Media the ncurfe plot, as Dio/icri - 
dei faith, where the fame or another Tcrx/xgroweth, from whence the gumme Sagapenum or Serapir.am ista- 
ktn in the fame manner that the former is, and doth not much differ from it,.but that it is not fo clammy, or gum¬ 
my. but dryer, and ofa redder colour, and Imelleth not halfe (odrongor dinking as it doth: The Vertues both 
of Galbanum and Sagapenum , are amply let forth under the title of Ferula. 
8. GumiAmmmiacum. The (Sum Ammoniacum, 
Thisgummelikewife is take 1 from a-Frrx/x as it is laid, growing in Gyrene of Africa, fothat you fee the di- 
v-rlityi f the climate,although in one and the fame plant produceth diverfitics of gums, differing both in forme 
andoperation : this gumme is much whiter then any of the three lad mentioned, pure and fincere without any 
flickeorddke in it, and with many whiter peeces among it, and not duelling any thing io mmh asthc Sag.:, 
pet Mm doth, which alfobeingdiflolved, will be whiter then any of the former. The properties of this Gmn is 
very like unto the two lad ofthe FeruloM gums,and thereunto you may referre it. 
9. Euphmbium. The gum ofthe burning thorny plant. 
This gum is taken from the thorny plant Euphorbium, as we have beenc alwayes informed from others, and 
not from any kind of Feral- u i plant, as Diofcerides fa.th, the forme of which plant, as it hath come from beyond 
the Sea unto us, even a fmall plant, we have here before exhibited unto you, the gum is of a browne ycUowiftt 
colour, and fomewhat whiter within, in almotl as fmall graines and drops as Madicke.of a mod violent burning 
hot piercing fent, piercing the ncftrils it it be but a little dined, but much more and allmod intolerable to him 
that fhall beate it, and more to them that fhall take it inwardly, the properties hereof are declared with the de¬ 
fer iptionof theptant. 
10. Sarcocolla. Sarcocoll. 
T h s is a fmall reddifit and whitilh gum.in very (mail peeces and pouther, little bigger then Poppy feed, fome. 
What bitter in tade, and ready to provoke ceding, but of no fent almoft at all, ‘Diefimdcs faith it is taken froma 
tree in Terfia, which neither he deferibeth, nor we have any further knowledge of, itdenfeth and dryeth, it 
clolcthupgreene wounds,and ftayeth catatihes,defluxions andredneffe in the eyes. 
it. GamHcderx, Gumoflvy. 
The gum that is gathered in the hot Couutryes from the flctr.s and greater branches of the Ivy tt ee is of a very 
da rke rt d or browne colour, comming to us in (mall drops,cleaving fad together in iumpes, a little dears, and of 
1 jnicwhat a drong lent, but vet y flierpe and burning: it killeth nits and fice, and fome doe put it into a hollow 
t oo.h tc r cl pc t e ach, being mixed with things convenient for it: fome life this gumme with other things, and 
fome alone; made up with a little hony and crummes of breacf into apafle, and cad it into Handing pooles and 
ponds of fi(h to make them mi ne up their bellies and lye as dead above the water for a fmall time, that they may 
be taken, which will returne to their fenfes againe, 
12. Scammomunt. Scammony. 
I have made a long narration hereof in the fecond Claflisof this Work,whereunto I mud referre you, and one. 
ly (hew you here that the generall vote ofthe Writers thereof, isthatihe /uyee hereof is taken from the rootes 
of tile plant, ordered in the fame manner that is diewed in gathering the gummes of Panax and Ferula, &c, but 
I am halfe pei Iwaued it is other wife, and made in another manlier, becaule it doth not condenfate into graines 
or 
