Tr I B E 16 , 
The Theater of'Plants. Char 99. 15. 
f L pc r e £ as afore J fa,d > but ls mide lnt0 a whole Uniforme lumpe or made, ofa darke grayiffi colour, 
n ,tl 'f t ft andnoc P J °" d<:r ous,» 1 itt | e(pongy alfo.or with fome holes in it, fomewhat clears and not muddy 
° f a ft ™S e and flrpng tafte.almoft procuring cailing.and giving a firew ofmilke upon die moiftenine 
^IfeUt °argc7n7he^ ° r tbroate > por cbat * s 1 °f adulcering: The qualities are ex? 
13- Aloes. Aloefuccotrine. 
thJw^ol?™ Hol,fc,cek "’ 1 have likewife largely entreated of in the Raid (econd Claffis before, with 
man , n f ° f dewing out and preparing the jnyce, whercunco I mud referre you,fo to have a cautoiopie 
or repetition of the fame things againejwhich were too tedions, ^ 
, . 14- Opium. Opium. 
Thisalfo with all that can belong thereunto,! have e. preffed in the Chapter of Poppy before, and cannot addc 
unco it any thing, more then is there fet downe with the Vertucs and Cautions,in as ample manner as I can. 
. „ . IJ. Elaterium. Elateriitm . 
kinp 1 * * nfrhe«fr e " y °? the d / rCr T ti0 u n 0( the wilJ ^?Wcumber,in the fecond Claffis before, I declared the ma- 
and g thLefofe r 0f h W0 f ° rC c b ° th 8 reei,e a ' ld wblte > as ma X be Efficiently gathered from what is there Raid, 
arealfo expreflid ^‘° ^ m ° re thercofln tbls Plaec,refc„ing you thereunto, where the properties 
Chap. X£IX. 
Palma. The Date tree, 
thcrc . be divers kindes of trees thatgoe under the name ot‘T’alma in Latine, whereof P/mrm 
his ttme mentioned three fcore and one, andfincehis time many others not knowne to him have btene 
fieverthe°dfnarlwh h “ k ‘r ° f D “ e ! rCe S ropCrly ‘° t0 be cilkd without va ’ rict y> how- 
ioever the climate where they grow, feeme to make a diverfity, of greacneffe or goodneffe one from 
another in the frmte, fuch as XbeofbrafiiK and Pliny reckon, and although againe, for wanf of a fitte?“S 
name, as the former Writers have thought, they have becne called Date trees generally : yet I would if I could 
avoid that improper name, and rather call them Palmes for the diff.nftion of them: I will therefore in this dale 
give you ouely the defcription of the true Date tree, and thereto adjoyne two other called Palmitos which n 
lirrlr ? oe .a cc °u nt low or Wilde Date trees; when in truth they have little or no refemMance hereunto, 'faving'a 
little in the leaves, and fpeake of fuch other Palmes, as have come to our knowledge,in the next Claffis. ^ 
>■ Palmavulgarit. The ordinary Date tiee. ° 
The Date tree ufua.ly groweth very great and tall, yet in fome places nothing fohighasin others bare of 
branches unto the toppe, the barke whereof is not fo well to be Raid fcaly or rug°ed, as knag "v having ffinrr 
knagges which are the ends of the middle ribbes of the leaves, (ticking out round about the boL which ^ive 
an eafie footm 0 like Heps,to climbeor get up into the toppes of the trees to gather the fi nite,the leaves that tlow 
at the toppe are very longand large, made as it were of divers parts, and foulded together double- the middle rib 
f n . g ! hl . cke a . nd a , mo ' t w° ot %. but fpongy within, which doe al wayes abide grecne, and hang downewards 
with cheir endsthe flowers arc endoied in a long skinny (heath, hanging downe from the lower branches of 
leaves and fomccimes higher, which opening it felfe at the end into two parts, ffi-vv forth a number of whit e 
Saftfon-like (mail flowers, hanging by fmall threds in great bunches cogethe ; after which come the fruite uDon 
the laid chreddy footeftalkes, greeneatthefirff, andreddiih when they are ripe, with a hard firme imal’l font? 
and round whitifh (tone with a furrow in the middle : home forts arc final!,and fome great, fome of aTo fuh S 
fiance home firmer and harder fome wh.tlfh.lome yellowifh.or reddifir,or blackiffi, lome round hke an Annie 
It rh °"t-u K, \ t L e ,0U ? dntfl4 >, f "™L havin S «* t ,ppe Toft, and fome none at all, 
t at they will not keepe long, nn.tfTc they be prefled into cakes to be kept, others will abide whole for a lnm* 
time, and fit to befent alfo into any f.-rre Country: yet all of them having a fmall round hard crotvneor can at th! 
head, which with rubbing one agaiufl another fallcth off: the flones within the fruite, notwithflandinn tbar 
they atc o iollid and hrme as a very (lone,and can hardly be broken with an hammer, yet having a final! hollow 
place in the middle of them, with fo final a kernell therein, that it would not be thouphttofpfinoZebvv7t 
being put whole into the ground hath (hot forth long narrow hard leaves, and have 
warme place divers ycarcs, without any great progrefle, fo little it liketh fo cold a climate a “nvement 
2, Palma humilii jive Chamxriphes vel Palmites. 
n , , 7*15 w *^ c 0 : ^w Dare tree called the Palmitowtti 
ptniic.Ke [0 ,, : j iVVcf'If'™ lifb;°- 
Hertithohe, Chiidott, re Tirtoulh he, ,nd jreletved 10 rich mens tables for aVtlbtc of g^eitefclllht el> 
. . V P^^Cbitmeropi Phr.ijJive Cbammfbesjp'imfisfo/i/r, The Thorny Pelmuo ° ’ 
This grow eilim a manner wholly like the lafi, but the leaves being made as it were^f m i, a ,• , 
many fiiarpe and ffiort prickes or thorncs, on the backe of them and^hc fialkes nf ,he° f Tu V P c teS bavC 
differeth from the other, whether the heads and fruite : be alik^I cannot cmainely^ heare. 1 ^ CWlPe ’ whereby,t 
The Place and 7 ime, 
, J bc " 1an “ red Date 1tree groweth in all the Eaflerne Countries generally, Galen and Pliny with others 
dedthofe efpecially above other s, that grew in ludsa, and inthevalley of Uieneho: BeZZf^h X Pe"' 
ved not commendations, neither were they ripe about hmfalem, above a moneth ffter h v h V ^ 
red in Eg/pt: they grow alfo in lutj where they arc planted but beare no frffite^dndf^T^Zf^th^SeTfide" 
