faid Aldintu in his delcripcion of tome rare Indian 
plants growing therein, and flowred and bore fruite 
as it is expreffed in the defcriptton. The lad in Candy 
and Gracia ,as Pena faith. 
T>hfcmdes calleth it in Greeke fit, and Acacia 
in Latine alto, and Thcopbraftw j pi„ x fi m p|y 
without any other atl/effive,whereof he makethtwo 
forts as I faid,<d£«s and nigra, the white being wcakc 
and quickdy rotting, the blacke being(trong, fit to 
buildhoufes, andfbips,&c. Alpinu, maketh them 
tobercwt undfemina, the male fuller of thorhes and 
without fruite, the female having fewer and gentler 
thomes, and thofe within the branches.bearing plen¬ 
tifully. Pliny alfo calleth it Spina e^Egyptia in tome 
places,diliinguilhing it from the Arabic*, and in o- 
thersconloundethitwiththe Spina Arabic*, which 
are n uch differing, this being a Thilile asicisfhew • 
ed among them, and that a Thorn)’ tree: • Some have 
thought that the Acanthus baccifera oi fir rill, men¬ 
tioned in the fecond of his Ge rgickgs,in thele words 
Qairi tibi odarato referam fudantia ligno BalfamacjHc 
& Baer at femper frondentss Acanthi, flrould be this 
tree, as Scrviut Grammaticus,md Chrifinfmts Landiu 
both of them Commentcrs upon Virgin lay; but 
without true judgement as Gtsilandinu, noteth it, 
who would reterre it to the Acanthus ^Egypti* of 
Athanaus. Marantha referreth it to that kindeof£- 
t’cnm, whereof Pliny,lib,n.c, j.maketh mention,but 
there is as little certainety in this, as in the former, 
for concerning this it is not fpecified by Pliny, that 
it either beareth berryes, or yet abideth cvet greene," 
and for the former, this Acacia beareth not berryes, 
luch as no doubt Virgin meant ■ but it is mod proba¬ 
ble Ire intended, the ‘Pyracantha, that we mod ufu- 
allylocall, for Phny to called it alfo, miSpinaa 
fotne have it, or Spinus lib. 15.11,24, where he faith 
Hacca Aquifolij <$. Spina fine fucco. But HOW con- 
- ^ cut avwcon* 
I t'S '^/““^"^fubftituteflrouldbe ufed in thofe two famous compulsions, 
true to ufe,and expunge the fabftfiutedf rhev word'd , 6 clcnt c ^ e 
trnefnnfr an H r r c \ *" u urcrc . w no aouDt,Ducour Apothecaries might have! 
wle ehe-enZ^Pf h jRlture > lf ' hc y ^uldbe'peake the true robe brought, being made there in Egtpt, 
SS luchas 1 haveleenewith Mailer2>» 
the Dm >10 u.hirT, 7 C um b , - . ’ I , , , wul Dc rcaai “‘'. lu ™ as I have ieene with Mailer Soxe 
le t e exfrafl-rh? , h beft ' 0 ^ Ue °* the cods which will be blacke, ford the Apothecaries would them- 
braunlit h™ f 7 CC r r°! C ? e,n ' - and cor ! dcnlat,: ,£ /«*»</*» «««», they might have enough of the cods 
a n and An Jh Ir nentl ? n, T ^ in the P'“ eb ^ ^citcd.faith that Sec,,,ini MartinZ, 
was deduced into to ™ Jfc ? ‘"'“i j brothcr Albn « t U divers fackes full of thefc cods, whereof tome 
hardned iiiyce like wife is calleTJL° ^ % ede V vere P lant i ed and g rew lnt0 trees,as Label there mentionech.The 
madeofthebo,mh« 1 fome have called it SpmaChrtJh, thinking that Chrids Crownewas 
all Turkfi ca^'ed Zri* aneft rk' ,s .‘" orc P r “ babll: 1£ . was madc Pahurm, it is now generally through 
cai ea and lo likewife of the Smvtuws. as Alxinm fairh „if~ .no _ he... 
all Turkie called V.aCvZ t c V l * K . was madc of the « w now generally through 
thitthe Arabians tbe fS‘t tun, < as A/ptnm latch, and Sant alfo: %atmolfiw faith 
Xwt„|Z&5wV* J, ”d ****• The Gumme thatcommeth outof the tree, whether 
name, is not th- a! 0 friib rrre buT' '’u'™"’’ alth . ou 8’ , d ‘ ve ”, doe doubt tbac the beareth that 
there is a Imal. l^ofgumJJL^ 
there to a ( .rcn-maicotner, yet it rs allured to be right by Alpinist, BcUman, and others vet 
w hitenefle and cleareneffe with the other, but 
Jnd.rn . ^ ^ P*;"" 1,kc unt0 d'ortthlckc wormes. Jhc fecond is called by Aldinm Acacia 
T he laft is remembred 
;.v f(I r„ > , . nifc uniuinorcrnicKc wormes. Inelecondisca 
by Pena inuhta^nBM™ * S com P ari(on b «weene it and the former Egiptian. 
. The Vert His. 
=S;Sr 
worketh like thcm.^but larre weaker: the/uyee being udd in all fuch difealeVas^ needVbinding^cooh'ng,** and 
*hcdeflu*io«. of fiahn- 
moutointo^e eyes^o^llay thra'amTthe'abundance of 0 " oucwaral ^ j. and '; s avadab ! e *. n tIlc defluxions offiot hu- 
the gout: thegumhathapronerteoh^token nlfnd r Ck to s aild 15 “> uch commended to thole that have, 
neffe of humours, andtobintkorclofeaptheolnpa^o^t^ 
3 ,B ac 
