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Show Bh 1428 cae beatrum Botanicum. Cuapr.28, can PRrigel The Place and Time, sate esis Theformer growethnotnaturally in any Conntry of Earope,butin Affa,Syria Egypt,and Africa many,and the are planted alfo by the wayfides,and in market places, for the (hadowes{ake onely: itis found with ver f. : in our Chriftian world,and.thofe onely great lovers of rarities, being very tender, notenduring without cee ordinary care and keeping,the cold of our climates,the other is but lately brought fromVirginia by M Tradef Ae ; The Names, x “ies if Tris called =adrev@- in Greeke, and Platanwin Latine,a late diffufis ramis nomenfortitac/? : and by this name all Authours havecalled it that have written ofit, The Arabians callit Dylb, the Italians Placano be Frencé Platane,that ix mayditferre from the Péafse, wherebyas is faid they call the Maple the Germanes ow it nae and therefore they and the Pech have no peculier name, butastheytake jc from the French Plane,, teen's We doe alfo, calling it the Plane tree : Déofcorides calleth the truite or burres coaeiz,and Pliny Pilule The? a ota being fo like the other can have no othername. The Vertnes 5 Treispe 16. The Theaver ofPlanve, 1. Buxws arbor vulgaris, @vur common Boxe tree, N Cwar.2g, 4, Pfeudo chamebuxus. The baftard low Boxe tree; S {=) kzTen) Srv DW LP 11hee WN "ee AVE ARES Kye VET ow A L Z) Paysa Gales faith that the lane is of a moift and coldmature,but not farre from a temperate, and therefore the or leaves bruifed and laid on inflammations and hot {wellings doe helpe them, bur the barke and the bares ire drying, whichbeing boyled in vinegar, is good to gargle the mouthforthe paine of the teeth: the burres eae ed withfat is good againft burnings, the burnt barke mixedwith water dothclenfe the skin of an featfe le me or other deformities of the skin, and doth dry up muchalfo,old moift andrunning ulcers, binging Manito - uy trifing: there is {aith Galen andDiofcorides, a kinde of duft upon the leaves, which every one mutt Beeare! ito avoid, that it fall not into theit eyes or eares,leaft it put themto much paine, the burres Bisnkeiniane ee m4 A io a Nts the venomeof the Scorpion, and other venemous creatures, the young conde leaves boyled i wine tae cb eyes bathed therewith ihat have either rednevie or rheumes falre into them belgetithea! SW) 2D? Seasnew — Cu are XXVIII. Buxus. The Boxe cree. He Boxe tree,hath two or three diverfities abferved therein, which hall be fhewed here.and with 1. Buxws arbor vulgaris, i Our common Boxetree, at when it is {uitcred, after along time riferh unto twife a mans height, and of che bignefleofa aex2S8 mans thigh, witha grayifh barke, butin manyplaces very low, {pread reafonalle well, wich branches, whereon are fet many thicke {mal! ,fomewhat long and roundpointed leaves, abiding alwayes greene larger,thicker,and greener then any ordinary Mirtle leaves, greateror lefler, as the bu thes bein greatnetle, at the fa Le i flowers, eae nae whitith A : foure se points = e of the eeee wk ich turneinto round berries, with the toppes,with reddifh fee je within them : the wood isvery folid clofe, of a whitith yellow colour, and {0 heavythat it finketh being put into water, : Aaa see 2, Baxus auratus, Guilded Boxe, Tcisguilded Boxe growethin like manner as the former, in fome places taller and greater then in others, th leaves are altogether : g like : it,tut : chat at moft mot of of theupper theupy leaves Sinin the the Summer Summer time time will, Will have a yellowlift lowaittone or gua about the edges,and in nothing elfe differing from the other. *< 3. Chamebuxts minor. Small This {mall Boxe groweth never high or great,and althoughnegle¢ {till ic hath many flend twigs gs rifing ig from fromthethe roote, and dey every branch r aprto take roaze, w i y iit may quickely be propagated Dakce. ‘and encreated, the leaves are much (ma'ler and finertheninthe for mer,and of a deeper greene colour whe hneverb re floweror {cede that I could obferve or learne, 7 Cie as. : 4. Pfeudo chamsebuxus, The baftard low Boxe is {ma ow plant Ferg: lant lyeft ly moftt on the ground, with i thee flender fle i . branches, rooting rufhlike greene i asit i {preaeth, and notrifing a foote high having divers thicke hard leaves fér theron \ utorder, fomewhat like unte Boxe leaves, or rather Mirtleleaves, being for the moft part pointed at th ee abi watts: oo pads ofthe branches among the leaves ado come forth fuure en ee or five dowers of the fathi : alhion of Peale Peafe or Broombloffomes, Feitloiomeacethe Ppermott part whereof is whitifh,and yellowifh in che middle, but purplith lower, and in {ome purple al and pan ws after which come{mall flat cods like unto the brozd I hi#/pi. containing within een bla ray round feede li ke Vetches tches: : the the ryote { t spiro g branches Bray branche in the ordandand ryot thors ground,andseed abideth long. Hf e a z Thefirkt is found wiith usin in many ma woods,and 0 eee iw 3 wood groundsamongotherf orts of , trees, it isal{o planted in di- rchards, or houfe backe fides, where it never groweth high, but ft tedry Lin fervethasabnfh » but ferver growet OMEN : found in . The fecond €cond hath hath b beene likewife onely neere thote thofe that tha ha have i towethalioi : fandryplaces of this land . onely ZI on. r I¢ IN Dy the North fidejand Hyphear on the South, which Theophraftus faith ofthe Ilex todoc fo, The fulis general he called Buxus & arbor,or arbore[cens byall.The fecond hath not beene mentioned by any Writer beforeme. 14¢ third is called Chamapyxos by Tragus,and Tabermontanus, and Baxns humilisby Dodonans, The laft is the wonymos flore Colutee of Clufius, the Avonymos Fervince folio ot Camerarinsin horto t and Rhas Adyrtifolins Pli ni Gefwerialfo, Ge/ner in Collatione ftirpium calleth it Chamebuxus,and Befler that tet out the gteat hortus Eyjtes tenfis, Pfendochamabnxusas I doc. Thatias calleth that frall plant Azjrtss tenusfolins, chat Cordus Servationumfylua, Fraticallus exiguusfolys myrtinis, whichis this very plant, Boxis called caltech in Ob ralians and ox by the Spaniards, Boys by the French, Buxbaumby the Germanes, and Palmboomby th The Vertues, Theleaves of Box are hot and dry,and aftringent withall,as the tafte declareth, and therefore afiar and binde, yetisit not niuch ufed in Phyficke by any nowadayes that I know, although many doet the praife of icto be goodfor fluxes,and the French difeafe,as much as Guajacum. Fernelins oncly doth mimbee I remeitix the leaves hereof among thofe things that doe purge, but the practi thereof is worne ottoftile, yer ber that Doétor Smith, thar was one of Queens Elizabeths Phyfitions, appointed the. decocticn of ani ctineé of the leaves of Boxe for a purging medicine, tobe boyledin whey, and adramme ofthe poather in broth, But ©Marthiolss contefteth againtt {uch as tooke it,and the Gxajact#mto beboth one : the leaves and the daft of the woodboyled in lyc, will make haires ofan Aborne (or Abraham) colour, the dwarfe Boxeis fitas is faid to bor= der the beds ofa Garden, &&c. and either they or the leaves of the other dryed and givento horfes, cureth them of the Bots,or Wormes: the woodis ufed for many {mall workes among the Turners, andthe diverfified boxe thae hath crooked veines therein, ferveth forinlaying to Joyners : there is noule knowneof the laft as yet, One medicine that I learned of a friend, whohadtryedit effectuall, I will here fet downe unto you, to cure the biting of a mad dogge,is to take the leaves and rootes of Cow flips,of the leaves of Boxe and Penny-royall, of each Ames vs@ in in Greeke Boxe is called 7vE@G Deb 7ahrunndy da munvey reoBE Fy a) fy ; toni dic * . } came pixides the {mall y aH eckevs ae ligné dicitur, and Buxus in Latine, and there NENG i Hall veffels or boxes toie hold and conraine things Diefcorid. but fort; b 3 thingsiin » Theophraftus andd Diefcor one fort, but P/izy hath three, che firlt he calleth Gallicum hetatileieuimcunadi row into {pi lars, untoa great height, The fecond Oleaftrum, » (I ‘ becaufeit was made to grow into fpires or pi miftaking of the word in fome Gre ke : a rR ceeae on Pliny noteth, there is an errour in ic GreeKe copy that he followed, Srost 2 and for ¢>,e:0y3Acy av or im omnino agre|te effe, he raokeittobesyecanov iva Olealtvnm elfe)is = alike quantity, fhred them {mall and put theminto hot broth,and let itbe fo taken three dayes together, ahd apy ply the herbe, &c.to the bitten place, with fope and hogges {uet meltedrogecher. pe _ TC gardens being planted either asa border to keepe up the beds or asa hedge lik o Thelakt Clu/us founfound d in in fuindryplaces {indry plz off asidan {ius ane lungaria, atid. and Cordas 2 deshiltiow onthehils in Bavaria in s Y ESZ : Ler7 themanother, which diversdoe referre hereunto. f row (on e orowert?} n : Uk oxeeB + os fl fe rwly, and feldome groweth to any great body, or anygreat height, 2, FOX 2) ctopanay ura, feokeni is, being being of amok loathibene a fone and not pfofitable for any thingasthe firtt kind mneytheWild, 0 K fe not fic toeffyis fet againit honfe: Gdes hath, that he faith che headof fede is called poe Rawle fides : : ed Cratecu, Crategus, whichhedothc stagusmext after Buxus,lib.3.c.15, ; hereinis that 5. anda andatthird errour ourhereinis, (dis; he ther ur P hirdis >, Another errour Pliny ut of Theaphraftes chat {peakect econ iach Be che Boxeide beareth Vi/cum on the Cwaz. X XIX. Salix, The Willow- Taal He W illowes are tobe divided into fundry parts, for fome grow high, fome low, fome with broad tasleaves, {ome with narrowand long, and that both high andlow, fomealfo onely growing in tha } waters, others delighting to grow by water fides,and-ditches,yet will alfo grow on theland. 1 will & therefore‘diftribure chem into foure peculiar forts or orders, thatis to fay into thofe thatgtow high F ff fff 3 and |