Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

Of Pines. cap. 122.

PInea the Pine apple, is the fruite of the Pine trée, as Plini. sayth. And is great and round by the stalke, and sharp at the ende, and first gréene, and more full when it is ripe, with coulour, as it were the colour of a Castane. The pine apple is the most greatest nut, and con∣ceiueth in it selfe in stéede of fruite ma∣ny kernells, closed in full hard shales, & be ioyned together in a certaine order, & neuertheles, for none shuld touch other, they be distinguished and departed asun∣der with skins of the shales, as it were by certaine walls, as it were by won∣derful craft of kinde, & be so ordained, for y^e more greater kernels shuld occupy the more larger place, & y^e lesse y^t lesser place.

And be so set in most best wise, for the lesse should be in the lesse place, vnder the waight of the more kernells: For the greater end of the Pine apple hang∣eth aboue, and is fast to the Tree by a stalke, and the sharpe ende hangeth som∣deale downward toward the earth And a Pine apple holdeth fast and closeth the kernells while it is fresh and new, and not dried of his fat humor by age. And the Pine apple fordryeth, when the gleymie humour and fatnesse is wa∣sted, and then the Pine apple all to fal∣leth: and so the one parte is departed from the other, and kernell from ker∣nell.

Therefore Dioscorides and Platea∣rius meane, that when the Pine apple kernell shall be vsed, it needeth to heate easely all the Pine apple vpon coales, & so the double rinde thereof is taken a∣way, the inner and the vtter. And then the kernells be full medicinable, & plaine and smooth, and moisteth, and some deale openeth & cleanseth the spirituall mem∣bers, and easeth the cough, and helpeth them that haue the Tisike, and be con∣sumed, and increaseth bloud.

The rindes thereof be medicinable, and by sowrenesse thereof stauncheth bloud, and namely menstruall, and bind∣eth and stauncheth bloudie flixe of the wombe, as it is sayd in Plat. and in Pli∣nius libro. 15.