T ai B e 17. 
TheTheater of Tlams. 
Cm a p.70. 
Chap. LXVIII. 
M.mobi forts Brafilianorum. Indian earth nut',ot Peaft. 
Here is growing in fundry places.in ’BraJJil and in America alio,neare the River Maranen, tti 
tame fruit or Peafe breeding under the ground like as puffes doe, without either leafe or room a- 
‘™ W’ ^nobrgger then great Peafe,and incloied in a fin,II grayilh thicke andfliorc 
cod, very like a fmaUPefcod.wKh one or two Peafe therein, of a pale reddilh colour, ontte 
outfide and' white within, tailing like unto an Almond, which will rattle being fhakedinthe 
skmne,growing many together and tyed by frnall firings. The fruits are eaten as Junkets with 
great delight,lor their pleafant talks lake eytherfrcih or dryed, but a little tolled make them rellifh much bet 
ter,and are ferved to the table of the better fort as an after courfe, and doe dry and ftrengthen the fiomarkr 
much, but taken too liberally breed head ach and heavineffe. b “° macke very 
CrtAP. LX IX. 
Radix SanBx Helena, Saint Helens beads,or Indian round fweet Cypertlsi 
Hare the Port of Saint Hetlen which is in Florida, grew certaine rootes very long and full of k.nr< 
'round joyntsas great as ones thumbe, blacke a * ots,o. 
without and white within, tailing fomewhat 
Radix SjxBa Helene. 
Slint Helens Beadier Indian lound fweet Cyperui. 1 
‘ aromaticall like Cjalanyays hich when thr y are 
dry are as hard as an home, the leaves are large and very 
greene,growing on ftalkes that fpread on the ground: it 
groweth in moift grounds, and is drying in the begin¬ 
ning of the fecond degree, and heating in the end of the 
fame,thepoutherol them taken in wine isufed againft 
the paines of the ftomacke and bowels, eafing thecol- 
licke and (lone in the Kidneyes, and provoking urine. 
The Indians uicto fprinkle the poutherofthe rootes all 
over their bodies, being ready to goe into the Baths, 
bccaufe as they fay, it bindeth the skinne and ftrength- 
vyhich beingdriHed and ftrunglerve the'm in Head ofBeads to telTcod how°m" ny'pMyer^they'wrdrgivc^m'at^ 
I«ves coXi“ r0 ° t! may " 0C t,y bK rCfCrred W f0m ' kmd 0f but MS the la?ge 
Chap. LXX. 
Radix §Hmbaya, Carthaycmu purging toots.’ 
\ Et r“! CwAmaketh mention ofthefe roots in the firfl part of his Peruvian hiftory that they ate (lender, 
i trT't thlcl( "' (r '.g' 0 w f ing among the trees in Qnsnbaya.t Province in Peru whofe cheife city 
’ j • i,_ *&* * ^ °^ c c r ? ots c f^ cn anc * ftceped in a good quantitie of water all night,they wil! 
f- mo(l °, f . thc water, but yet three ounces thereof remaining being drunke doe purge the body 
AWH .v, 0Ut v, r °r ° r P £rturb f°"> as had beene purged with Rub, rbe, this hath becne often tryed. 
ofrootes were the fame or very like unto fuch as was fent him by a friend by the name 
were [alike * ? ^ ^ t0 ° ke “ be noother then thebtanches of Atragene or V>orna of that Countrey,they 
Chap. LXXR 
Rhabariarum Americanism. Rubarbe of America or Weil Indie Rubarbt. 
0 «W«J faith, that among other things were fent him out of the maineof the Weft Indies he had 
a peece ofa roote which they called there by the name of Rubarbe, and was very like the Eaft In¬ 
dian kind, for as hee faith it was round, with a browniih coatc and reddifh core or infide, which 
... , H ^‘"8 broken, had fome whiteneffe mixed among it, and coloured the fpittle yellow like Saffron, 
beingbitterwithall hut what ieavesubore waanotfignified. Thisisnotthe white Rubarbe of America, fat 
tnit as is layd in its place it cfjc MechiActn, 9 
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