Tbs Theater of 'Plants. 
C h a F.50, 
Sa^j/rfZJ. The Saflap hris or A guc tree 
T RI B * 17. 
to helpe themfelve; in thefe extremities t fome Indians cill the tree P 4 «' 4 »e,and Come H'mnnh: butt he Trench 
C whom the Spaniards and all other Nations fince that ufe it follow ) SaJfafrM, upon what ground or C aufe is noc 
knowne. The tree groweth great and tall, bate of branches unto a realonable height coveted with a rravilh 
browr.e barke fomewhat thicke,being in carte hotter and quicker then the wood or roote by much : towards the 
toppe it fpreadeth forth many goodly armes and branches into a round compandor forme, havirw large darke 
greene leaves growing thereon one at a place : handing on the contrary (ide,each to other, taftinglike the roote 
but more weakely, fome tut into three divihons, fomewhat refembling Figge tree leaves, but kiier by the half? 
for the mod part, with a middle ribbe running through each divifion, and two others to the inner cuts with 
veinesbefides, and fome with little or nodivilion at all upon them, for both forts wee have feenegrowfri 
the fame tree, fmooth alfo and noc dented about the edges t the flowers are fmall and yellow made of tl,reds 
like to the Male Cornel tree as MaftnUhnTradefcant laith vcr i 
and the fruite fmall blackifh berries, fee in fmall cups upon 
long fooreHalkes many clnftring together: the rootesare 
noc very great nor grow deepe, in the like manner as all 
other forts of Indian trees doe, but are covered with the 
like brownifli barkc-y that the trunke and branches are but 
fomewhat redder, which are mod in ufe, being of greater 
force and efficacy then any oth^r part of ;he tree,and tafle 
fomewhatfpicelike, rellifhing Pennell feede withall, but 
Clupns comparethtHe tafte thereof unto the herbe Tarm- 
and is hot and dry in the beginning of the third de¬ 
gree, The dccoftion whireof is familiarly given in all 
cold difeafes andobltiuftionsof the Liver and fpleene,as 
alfo in coldrheumes and deftuxions ofthchead, on the 
teeth, eyes,or lunges, warming and drying up the moi- 
fture, andftrengthning the parts afterwards, and there¬ 
fore is availeable in coughes, and other cold difeafes of the 
breft,(tomacke,and lungs, and reflraineth catlings, and 
hefpeth digeftion, breakethandexpellcth winde, the gra¬ 
ven and done in the kidneyes, and provokech urine, and 
womens courfes, it alfo wahneth, hcateth, arid dryethup 
the moifture cf womens wombes, which is in mod the 
caufe of birrennefie, and caufeth them to be the more apt 
to conceive: it is of efpeciall good ufe in tertian and quo ■ 
tidian agues that come of humours, ©rare of long conti¬ 
nuance.* it is thought alfo to be good in the time of the 
ptftilence, to weare fome thereof continually about them, 
that the fmcll of it may cxpell the corrupt and evil vapour* 
of thepcdilence * it is generally ufed in all the difeafes 
that come of cold and raw, thin, and corrupt humours, the 
JVm -6 difeafe, and other of the like foule nature* the In* 
dians ufe the leaves being bruifed to heale their wounds, 
and fores of whatfoever quality they be. 
C H i 
L. 
Spermaceti. Parmaficty. 
jPermauti, that it the fpawne of the Whale, ufually called in PngJ.ijh Parmafitty, is found in the head 
| of onconely fort of Whale fifli called Trump*, which hath no finnes in his mouth, but teeth about a 
! fpar.ne long, and as thickc as ones wrift .■ it lyech in 3 hole therein,as it were a Weil, whichistaken 
• out and brought home, after their fifhing for Whales, in barrels,and 19 afterwards prefled in a preffe, 
that the thinneoyle may runnS from the thicker fubftance, which is thac Parmaficty weufe, and the more it is 
prefl’ed the whiter it will be, and of little or no fmell, yet the oyle is fomewhat ftrong ; this fort of Whale hath 
but one hole in the head, whereby it fpouteth out water, all other fortshaving two, his head is bigger theno- 
thers, and bigger then his whole body bcfidcs, which is alfo of a more gray colour: in chis Whales entrails, 
Ambergreife is laid often to be found in more plenty then in other, which it is more hkeiy that they fwallow as 
food, finding it fwimming on the Sea water, then that it fhould breed in them, asdiverfehave fuppofed, fori 
have here IhevVed you the generation of Ambergrecie: this Whale alfo yeeldeth a kind of oyle,as other Whales 
doe, but it groweth both white and hard, when it is cold, when as all other art liquid like oyle,and never gravlf 
hardlike it, and therefore it is alwayes kept by it felfe,and not put to others. 
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