Tr I b r 17, The Theater of ‘Plants* C-ha r.46, 1603 
of the tree was in former cimes in much ufe by the ancients but is utterly negleded now a dayes which was more 
drying and binding then the Gum it felfe : they had alfo CMar.na Thurii, which fome tooke to be a fort of that 
dewy Manna that is gathered from trees but were deceived, foricis but the fmall peeces of ponther of the Oli- 
bAnum which is broken by the carriage .* they tiled alio th cfaligo or foote of it when ic was burned being made as 
blacking for fhooesj&c. is made,but is wholly out of ule now adayes. 
Chap. XLVJ. 
Piper ejufque fpecies nigrum album longttm^&c. Divers forts of Pepper,as blacke 3 whiteand long, Sc c.' 
« Ow fabulous and untrue were the relations of Indian Drugs brought to the ancient writers, ‘DiofcorT 
des and others may be plaincly difcerned,by their defcripcion of the plant of Pepper, and the fruic 
thereof, for Diofcorides faith of it, that it growethonafmall tree, and that the fruit at the firft is long, 
which is the long Pepper, having within ic fmall graines like unto Millet feede, which in time grow¬ 
ing ripe becommech blacke Pepper, by fpreading forth the branches and the graines of Pepper upon 
ihcm as they are feene : and that the white Pepper is taken before ic is ripe, the roote is like unto the Co Jim and 
not to Ginger as fome fay,thus farre he : but the truth is farre other wife: for Pepper, whether blacke or white dif¬ 
fered! nor cither in manner of growing,nor in forme of leafe or fruitejthe long alfo groweth after the fame man- 
ner,but differcth in the fruit; now all the forts are fufficiently knowne by our Navigations and frequent tranf- 
ficke into the Eaft Indies, to grow each on a fcverall climing bud), but after one manner, chat is, as Hoppes doe 
with us, fothaciftheybenotfuftainedbyfometrcejpole^aneorthelike, whereon they may clime and fpread, 
will lye downe on the ground,and thereon runne and llioot forth fmall fibres at every ;oynt,as hath beene truely 
obfervedtbut the ufuall manner is to plant a branch taken from the bufli,neare unto fome tall and great tree, or 
as I fa id fome great Cane or fuch like, and fo ic will quickly by winding ic felfe about it (but not with tendrells 
as a Vine doth) get to the very toppe thereof,being full of /oynts, and fiiooring forth faire and fomewhat large 
leaves one at a Joync, being alraoli: round, but ending in a point, greener above and paler underneath, with a 
great middle ribbe, and foure other ribes fomewhat Idler, fpreading from it two on each fide, and fmallcr veines 
thereinalfountothe edges which are not denred butfmoothandplaine, not thickc but fomewhat thinne, and 
let on a pretty long footltalke, the fruit or Pepper ic felfe,whether blacke, white, or long, grovveth at the fame 
joynt,but on the contrary fide oppofitc to the leafe, and not bet weene the ftalke and the Ieaje, as fome have fajfly 
ier it downe roundabout a long fta!ke,lbmewhac thinly let all along thereon,or not fo thicke as a bunch of Grapes? 
une roote hath fundry ;oynts creeping in the ground with fibres at the /oynts, the white Pepper is very hardly 
Piper nigrum •v e I album. fiptrii albiracamus. 
Blacke or white Pepper, A branch of white Pepper. 
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