T *. I BE 17. 
The Theater of Tlants. 
Zingiber forte Brajilicnfe nigra radne. 
Brjfiil] Ginger with a blacke roote. 
GHAr,j6. 1613 
Zijjgibctu (jliqaa & /emeu. 
The iced pod,and feed of Ginger, 
Zingiber orientate fimfmt. 
The figure of ihe oriental! Ginger veith the floner. 
fet teth forth the figure of Ginger as it grew he faith 
with Adrian Meuleneere in the Prince Mauritim a 
Zfyffan his Garden, having fundry ftalkes about a 
foote high, (hewing like unto a Reed new fprung up, 
and condemncth that old figure asfalfc,that was for¬ 
merly accounted the right, which had leaves of the 
fafhionof anMiorFlowerdeliice, which contrarie- 
tiesare as home may thinke, hardly to be reconciled, 
yet I will endeavour to make both thefe aifettionsto 
be true although they feemefb much to vary, thus: 
W e have two forts of Ginger brought unto us,plaine- 
ly differing in the fubftance and colour of the rootes, 
hut not in the forme, faving that the one is more (len¬ 
der which is the blacker,then the white, for the one 
is white within and cutteth foft, which is the Ginger 
wholly in uie for meates and medicines with us, the 
other is hard and almoff wooddy, and cutteth black- 
ifli within, fo that it is very likely that the one fort 
which I taketo be the Eafl Indie fort, with the foft 
white roote, hath Flagge-like leaves, and hath beene 
feene in flower in Germany, vsEmuaul Zwerts hath 
fet out the figure (and I here unto you, and the 
feed veffellalfo, with the feed not much unlike that 
of an IrU) with this title Zingiber pre alba folio hi- 
die- The other roote that is more (lender and blacke, 
yet of the fame fafhion, may be that which bearech Reed-like leaves, as Lobel hath fet it forth rather mhr 
preferved then for ordinary ufe with us, and which as I thinke is the Mecbinum of Lobel, or Zinaiber UCcH-n - 
whereof he givet.h the figure of a more excellent fort, that was j'oynccd tikcDoroniam parts, and%herefore aci 
hrn nt F d f y tC )ru r c C 'T e a ° rm,CHm • as is fbe wed before in this worke.in the Chapter of Boronlcum and 
brought from So that the matter being thus reconciled, and each of them fortedas they fhould lie let 
Kr iS b°ce,L h drved b r ° rtS ar ^ prc f erv£d wh !' c th , c y arc frefh snd 5 ™“. the blacke fort as well alfo,’ af- 
wil f wrll f ■!. d [ y ^ d;by r W ft f e P 1Tlg -"i a {’ d hoylingro make it tender, but I cannot finds: that the white fort 
wdl fo well ferve ro be preferved after it hath beene dryed, but is the bed being preferved greenc, fuch as the 
Chna and Bengal* Ginger is. The properties of Ginger is to warme a cold (lomacke, andtohelpe difgcftion, to 
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