R IBE 17 , 
Plantapitmdta armdinacta jpinof*, The winged thorny Reede. 
His Reedclike thorny plant came like wife with the two lad recited plants from che Wed Indict 
which was like a dafte of a Reede full 
Fhtta pinmra fpimfn & Kuhifatie fauico'd pUrita. 
Tlieftirre Tki/lle-iikc pLint of ^i»rric<j,aiKl»a bramble 
bulli -like Hilkc of America. 
of pith of eight or ten cubits in length 
having a threefold waved skinny welt 
of a fingers breadth fet thereon all the 
length thereof and at the outer ends of the waved 
welt fmall fiarres offharpe pricks or thornes: more 
hereof cannot be faid for that more was notbrought, 
but that thereby you may behold the admirable 
workes of CSod in plants as well as in all his other 
creatures. 
Hereunto is adjoyned another thorny plant broughc 
from thefe parts, which leemed cither the body or the 
branch of a blacke berry like tree, being a folidfirme 
heavy wood, armed very thicke with great long and 
llronge thornes at certaine tubers or knots, the barke 
being thicke and blackifh. 
Obferve I pray you that the former of thefe two dc- 
feriptions belongeth to the Ccrem fpitw/m and that de~ 
feription to be fet in the place of it. 
Chap,' XC.' 
C<ir.n£ lndic£ portentofe longitudinii. Indian Reede daves, 
N the Wcderne fide of J umairA and in other places alfo ofthofe Indies grew Canes (for wee 
know not ho w elfe to terme them) or Recdcs called by them Rattm of an incredible length, for 
riling from the ground, they will mount up to the toppe of thehighed tree in growth there 
neat unto them, and descending to the ground againe, it will runne thereon on a great 
way, and fometimes divide it felfe to fcverall wayes, and afterwards coile it feffe as a 
Cableis laid on diipbord Or elle where, to the length of thirtie fathome by computation, and 
then runne againe over a tree fometimes or elfe coile it felfe againe as formerly, fo that neither beginning or end 
thereof is found :it hath noebeene obferved that it hath any leaves on it, but are very plyant and bending as one 
will while they are frefh and greene,and would ferve in dead of ropes : but when they are old and dry, they 
will ferve in dead of walking daves,as they are much ufed with many of us now a dayes or to any other fuch put" 
pole,they areno harder or bigger thenan ordinary cudgell.yetmay onedrike fire from them by driking onea- 
gainlt another, which nevertbelcffc are porous and hollow as it were in the middle, fo that one may blow winde 
through them at never fo great a length,and at a reafonablc daffes length almod fo drongly, to blow out a candle 
letat the further end,at the lead fcnfibly to be felt, yet no appearance of holes therein. I takeittobe the fame 
that is called I anew Indian poro/in in C/ujiw his Curs, pofierieret^ but why Iuncut I fee no reafon ■ 
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