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TbeTbeater ofTlants. 
C H A F.io. 
hand .will fmell egregtoufly-through all the place. Vnto this Mamerdn, attrito*thsllfche vetawsonSTTr,^ 
T »h*» Balfame.and much more then unto any of the former, which becaufe T , 0 , , . . 
on of things,! referre you unto them. wmcn Decaule I would not make a double repetui- 
C H 1 
’Bdellium. | he Gumme called bdellium. 
T.though Thofcoridcs hath given no defeription of the tree that beareth Bdellium , , 
yet ‘PImy ,n his twelfth Booke and ninth Chapter fetteth irdowne rhTb M t, " y j h / rCof 5 
and of the bigneffe of the white Ollive tree, LingKi&fjte S ft 0 * l' ,d 
tree, which how truely exprefled refleth doubtful!* for bnhlf d ' S 
found among drugges, w ith divers peeces of gumme cleaving to it moft hket m he l 
Myrrhe. which are very like one unto another, being botlfgathered from cruell ,’h™ 
chat he faw inone woodof trees, twothoufand of thefe thorny trees, and Theuet Urd', 
fortserowint?mixedroeether. andrh,... „■ 
CdclijfiuCIiu'fhibu/tlav empties juem mitts 
cudT btophtafit fruHun epmatar. 
y ' 111 ■ 1 niw, Lwuiiiuuiana or tneie 
forts growing mixed together, and that in fuch countries 
that ire fubj’efl to fnow, yet the bed Authonrs fay that 
Arabia is the chicfe place where they grow, which I 
thinlte never faw or felt fnow, yet in Cene[is i.verfe ta 
we read that Bdellium, and the Onix done, befidcGold' 
grew in the Land of Havilah, which is interpreted to be 
Eilf ward from Perfta\ fo that both the tree and the sum 
thereof arecalled by one name,for the choyfe wherof Di- 
efeerides fetteth downe that it fliould be cleei e like slew 
fat on the infide, eaiily melting ot diffolving, pure cr 
cleane from drcfle, fweete in the burning like unto Vn- 
odaratUt, (for fo f confttue it although divers Au- 
thours doe diverfly interpret thofe words, fome making 
Vuguu to be a note of white peeces in the gumme, like the 
naileofones hand, but in my judgement the Veeui, is 
referred by Diofiorides to the fweete fumes of Bdellium in 
the burning, whereunto it is like, for having faid that it 
v/isjuffitu adoratum, he would rather fhew what fent 
it had,namely of unguis odoratui) and bitter in tafte,which 
are fuch no es as we can hardly find many that is brought 
to us,_ for we find little bitterneffe in any,and leffe fweet- 
nefie in the burning of it or Vnguii cdoratut , but drone 
and unpleafant rather, neither is it foft cr eafic to be dif- 
lolved, but hard and not to be diffolved equally, but into 
gratnes or knots without warmth, yet is ours of a fad 
browne colour fomewhat like glew, and much like unto 
Myrrhe, fo that they are often midaken one for another, 
but that Bdellium is harder,dryer, and browner: but there 
are fundry forts thereof as MuthMw fheweth, and Bate- 
binrnm hts note upon him,that he hathfeene, for not one- 
Vafclte 
voketh untie and womens .courfes, and break’e th the done : it is good for the couch TndYnrZffrl % “ T" 
alfofor tho{/ZtTc ^bmdenalidhaveafupturff kmo^k : f!ah^\KT 1 a?d^^re , of-hc' S °‘ th ! < L dcS: * is S°? d 
moidneffe thereof,and draweth forth the dead birth. ardneife of .he mother, and drycth up the 
Chap. XI. 
Behenalbum & rubrum. white and red Ben.' 
1 th T ha r? b£Cn l b0t l! very bricf£ in , dccla ™K thefe two forts of Drogues, and are af/o 
7 , 'h' “ft * ” m ? rubrHm lllould bc ’ for and MyreZ 
, b Bcn ’ h ° W '^P can an y ° f our Moderne Writers, find out the true Ben of 
thereof not onelv in ihl dlvcr * hal ' e a PP r °P r . Iated Sundry hetfaes unto them, but they have all come farre (bore 
which as he faith the learned'^, bu !j er P ec ’ al 'y‘ n the properties, C/«/T«, fetteth forthakinde of wild CampiJ 
1 L , d p t° f , e,rol,rs at Salamanca Spmne tooke to be the Ben album of the ancients but 
' takethe wild'pa "*7 , f t Cechdownethe'?«j!OTrr/^Bwrc,» which he callech Polemomum tobeic, and fome 
• r neof.hemj AngitiUra ^ar,d Ca!».cw<«<alfofuppofe that the garden red Car- 
d . 1 x 1 ci rcc 
