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Chap. ico. 
Tbeatrum ' Botankttm . 
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i. Acaciavz' i five Spir.a tiaca. 
The t iptunThorne or binding beanctrec. 
2. acit Americana far.icfiava. 
like unto Lentilles, doling or fouldingthcmfelves upon the Sunne fetting, and opening againe after the riling, 
bavins at the foote ofevery ftalke two long thorne-. let, reddifh at the firft, and white after: the fiifl flowers 
conv fjrrh in the beginning of Inly, afterfome fetv leaves have fhot forth from theoldwood, but not in any 
plenty, yet bring the fruite to ripeneffe after: but in the beginning of Sopumbcr more plentifully, yet without 
any finite following them: thefe flowers at the firlf arc greene, and like a (mall Strawberry, growing ycllow- 
ifliafrer, and whitifh within two or t'nccedayes like unto a pill, or flnall round ball, confiding of a floe ky or 
woolly fubftance, many ofthemfet together, and have mmy fmall threds in the middle with yellow tips, of a 
very fweete Cent, like untothe fent of Wallflowers, which hold their font long afrerthey are dry: from the 
middle of the flower come forthdivers coda,yet fometimes but one or two, or three,and forr.etitnes mo 1 c,greene 
atthefirfl, and blacke when they are ripe, like crooked round homes, while they are greene, ofaveryharfh 
and binding ta le, but growing ripe they ate Idle aftringent and the huskemore fliarpe, and then doe fcmewhit 
rcfemblethecodsof Lupines ,but a little crooked, being iialiea foote long, and about an inchthicke, fomewhat 
round and bunched out,' where the leedes lye, which huskc is very tough when it is dry, wherein are divers 
hard blacke feedes»like untothofeofthe fweece Beane or Carob tree, thru A chicke together without order, the 
wood hereof is hard and whitifh, but blacked at the heart, without cither fent or tade : this doth in many things 
agree with the former, but the -reared difference is in the hnskes with leede, this having many, and cheotncr 
but three or fonreatthemoft, The like hereunto Label memionethin his Adverfaria,pag,^o 9 . thathefaw with 
Mifter M-rtem Queene £•'«•!£«&/ Apothecary. 
a. AcM-iaj/bctuiiU fivejtero DiofcoriJu, Thetruefecond Acacia olDiofiondes, 
This bufhhuh an upright ftemmc three cubits high or more, covered wirhafmooth fad greene barke, the 
wood bcins? fob and cafie to breaks, and nor very thickc of long thornes,the leaves are fmall, (landing three tot 
gether upon the branches, the flowers are fmall and yellow, whole fucceeding feede feated m fmall hnskes, are 
round,hard flat and yellowifk, fomewhat like to Broome feed : This fhrub feemerh very like to the Afpalathm 
fecundut of' Diofcorides, but ditferech notably therefrom, in that the AffoUthm is thicker fet with greater whiter 
andfharper chortles,with fewer and fmaller leaves .flowers,and feede veflels, and the wood thereof is hard, and 
not eafie to be broken. 
The Place and Tim;. 
The firfl groweth in Arabia plentifully in many places, and mount Sinai, and in EgiptoHo, and flowreth and 
beareth fruixe twiceayeare, whereby wc may well fay.it beareth ever greene leaves: the other came out of the 
Weft Indies, Aliinm faith his came from Saint ‘Domingo, but from whence that which Matter Morgan Qaeenc 
b:-x.xbcth her Apothecary had long agoe, as Label fetteth itdowne \n Adverfaria, is not knowne whether it 
cams from thence or no, the feedes fpringing in Cardinal! Farm fun his Garden in Rom ss it is fee forth by the 
