Pambotanologia. Sive Enchiridion botanicum. Or A compleat herball: containing the summe of what hath hitherto been published either by ancient or moderne authors both Galenicall and chymicall, touching trees, shrubs, plants, fruits, flowers, &c. In an alphabeticall order: wherein all that are not in the physick garden in Oxford are noted with asterisks. Shewing their place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues, use, dose, danger and antidotes. Together with an [brace] introduction to herbarisme, &c. appendix of exoticks. Universall index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England. / By Robert Lovell St. C.C. Ox.

Figge-tree. Ficus.

• P. Spain, Italy, gardens, under a hot wall.
• T. They beare ripe fruit in the spring, August and September.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. The unripe fruit is called Grossus and Olynthus.

Figge-tree. Ger: J: K. as the common, and dwarfe. T. The dry figgs nourish better than the green, which are somewhat warme and moist. The dry and ripe are hot almost 3°, sharpe and biting: the leaves are somewhat sharpe, opening, but not so strong as the juyce. V. dry figgs are not of very good juyce, they h. the throat and lungs, the cough, and short windednesse. Decoct with hysope and d. they expectorate flegme. Stamped with salt, rue,

and nut kernells, they h. poyson, and prevent infection: stamped with wheat meale, powder of fenugreeke, lineseed, and the roots of marsh mallows, ap. warme, they ripen impostumes, and phlegmons, and all hot tumors behind the eares: and the roots of lillies added h. bubo's, boiled in wormewood wine with barley meale: ap. to the belly, they h. dropsies. Drie figgs soften and wast both inwardly and out∣wardly: the leaves wast the Kings evill and all tumors, ap. with the roots of marsh mal∣lowes. The milke h. rough skinnes, sores, spotts and deformity ap. with barley meale, and h. warts ap. with fat things: it also h. the tooth-ache ap. and openeth the hemorrhoids: with fenugreek and vineger they h. goutes: the milke ap. h. wounds of venemous beasts: green figgs h. the stone, the dry h. all diseases of the chest, paine of the bladder, and child∣birth: the juyce of the leaves dissolveth milke clotted in the stomack, & ap. with the yelke of an egge, c. the menses. The prickly Indian fig-tree. T. V. eaten coloureth the bloud red: the juyce h. old ulcers: Cochenele is given in maligne diseases, as in pestilent diseases, &c. The arched Indian figtree. T.V. The fruit is usually eaten, and of good nourishment. Pem: Figgs h. the falling sicknesse, quinsie, and in∣firmities of the womb: they also expell ve∣nemous matter to the skinne: toasted they fa∣cilitate the birth: ap. with leaven and salt, they breake plague sores, and with copporas h. running ulcers: with salt ap: they h. kibes: and tosted, paine of the teeth. They are best for phlegmatick persons. Col: 2 or 3 eaten in the morning steeped in aquavitae h. pursinesse.

Park: The Indian figgs, loosen the belly, re∣fresh the spirits, h. coughs, & hot urine, and c. lust: The juyce of the leaves h. burnings: common figgs boiled with hysop and lycorice, h. the chest.