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Show "1360 ‘Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants, Lea Tr infomuch as it-cantis notwithRanding of leffer force; qualitic; orapple, although it feeme tobe like thefe id, vertues,but hath in, it a certaine biting Vt vidisut peri}pec notisignibus ar{f, noteffectually performe anyof the aforefa Ardet vt admagnos Pinca Tedadeos, which hurteth. The Torch Pine cut into fimall pieces and boiled in vineger, is aremedy likewifeagain the. F ° tooth-ache ifthe teeth be wafhed. with the decoction. Alfoin Faflorum4. lic accendit geminas pro lampade Pinus: Hine Cereris[acris nunc quoque Teda datur, Of this there is made a profitable fpatheror flice to be vfed inmaking ofcompound plaifters G The fame doth virgifl alfo fignifie in the feuenth ofhis Aneid, and peflaries that eafe paine. Ipfainter medias,flag rantemferuida Pinum Suftinet.———_——_—__—__— Wherein ftead of Flagrantem Pinum, Seruius admonifhethvs to vnderftand Teds Pinca, Catalys Ofthe fmoke of this is made a blacke which ferueth tomake inke of,and for eating fores inthe H comersofeies, and againft the falling away of the haireofthe eie lids,and for watering and bleere eies,as Diofcorides teacheth, Of Rofins. alfo confenteth with themin the marriage fong ofIn/iaand Uvtallins. —— Mars Piweam quate tedam, q The Kindes. 1 And Prudentins in HymnoCerei Pafchalis. Seu Pinuspiceamsfert alimoniam, Moreouer,the herbe Peucedanos,or Horeftrong,fo named ofthe likenefie of mx,is called alfo in La- tine Pinaffellum,ofPizus the Pine tree:all which things do euidently declare that=s is called in La- tine not Picea,but Pinus. The firft ofthefe wilde kindes may be Idea Theophrafti, or Theophraflushis Pine tee,growing on mountIda,ifthe applewhichis fhorter were longer: for he nameth two kindes of wilde Pines,the one’ofmountIda,and the other the SeaPine with theround fruit : butwe hold the contrarie, for thefruit or apple of the wildemountaine Pine isfhorter, and that of the Sea Pine longer. This may moretruly be Macedonum mas,or the Macedonians male Pine,for they make two fortsofwvilde Pines,the male and the female,and the male more writhed and harder tobew rought ypon, ardthe female more eafie ; bur the wood ofthis is more writhed,and not fo muchin requeftfor workes, _ astheiother,and therefore it {eemeth to be the male. This wilde Pinetree is calledin high Dutch, Hartsbaum, and noidder Partsbaum sin Gallia Celtica, E/vo CAleno : and in Sanith ,Pin Carax. The fecond wild Pine tree is named commonly ofthe Italians Tridentinis,and Ananien(ilus,Cim6x0, and Cirmolo , it {eemeth to differ nothing at.all fromthe Macedonians wilde :female Pine, {or thewoodis eafie to be wrought on,and ferueth for divers and fundry workes. The third they call augo: this may be nated not without caufe sexamve, that isto fay, Humile Pinusgor Dwarfe Pine : yetdothit differ from Chamepeace the Herbe called in Engifh,Ground Pine. The fourth wilde Pine is namedin Grecke »eemier' in Latine,Maritimaand Marina Pirws:in Ens : glifh,Sea Pine, That which the Latinescall Teda,is named in Greekeand #n:in high Dutch, Fpnbolts i" may be termed in Englith, Torch-pine. and Pliny is deceiued,in that he fuppofeth the Torch Pine to bee tree by it felfe, and maketh sen Pine mathe for tree, Larch fixth kinde of Cone-tree; as likewife heerreth intaking Larix,the Tree. And as Diofcorides maketh folittle difference as. fearfe any, betweencmix and 74 #0 fuppofeth them to beborh ofone kinde , fo likewife he fetteth downe faculties commonto them both. "| The Temperature avd Vertues, applied it cureth Merigals4"¢ The barke ofthem both, faith he,doth binde ;being beaten and alfo fhallow vicers and burningsif irbe layed onwith Litharge andfine Frankincenfe. ae With the Cerote of Myrtles it healeth vicers in tender bodies :being beatenwith Copp : ftaieth tetters,and creeping vlcers: it drawethaway the birth and after birth, ifitbe taken so" nel a fume :being drunkeit ftoppeth the belly,and prouoketh vrine. Galen bath almoft the fame things,but he faith,that the barke of the Pine tree is more tPe . than that of the Pitch.tree ; the leaues ftamped take away hot fwellings and fores thar $ thereof. oF the teeth, ifthey be aint of Being ftamped and boyled in vineger, they affwage the paine Ofthe Hiftory ofPlants. with this decoétion hot: the fame be alfo good forthofe that baue bad Jiucss, being 41" ke See : : water-or mead, Of thefame operation is likewife the barke ofthe pine nuts; but Galen affirmeth thar the (Vtofthe Pinetrees,efpecially of the wilde kinds,there iffueth forth a liquid,whirifh,and. Oiircer fmelling Rofin,and that many times by it felfe ; but moreplentifully either out of theeutand broken boughes,or, forth of the body when the tree commethto be a Torch Pine. 2 there iffueth alfo forth of the crackes and chinkes of the barke,or out of the cut boughes,a certaine dry Rofin,andthat forth of the Pine Tree or Firre Tree. There is likewife found a certaine congealed Rofin vpon the cones or apples. Itiscalled in Latine, Refiza :in Greeke,in: in high Dutch, Harts:in low Durch,Berk in Ira$ lianRagia : in Spanith,Refina: in Englifh, Rofin. Thefirt is named in Latine,Liquida Refina in Greeke,jrm ¢x, and. of diversomnes, that it.to hyiffueth our of it felfe:of the Lacedemonians, seowsizms. OF Primiflua, the firft flowing Rofin:and in Cicilia,xemefim, as Galea writeth in his third booke of medicines according tothe kindes;in thops Refine Pizi,or Rofin ofthe Pine tree, and common Rofin It hapnethoftentimes through the tealigent and careleffe gathering thereof, that. certaine {mall pieces ofwood, andlittle ftones be find mixed with it; this kinde ofRofin Gales furnameth ae, as though he fhouldfay,confu- ed,which being melted and clenfed from the droffe becommeth hard and brittle. The like hapneth alfo to anotherliquid Rofin, which after it is melted, boiled,and cooled aatine,is hard and brittle,and maylikewife be beaten,ground,andfearced; andthisRofin is named inGreeke guass:in Latine,Fridfa,and many times Colophonia,in Greeke, sxwesrie: which nameis vfed among the Apothecaries,and may ftand foran Englifh name; for Galen in his third booke ofMedicines accordingto their kindesfaith,thatit is called Friéfa,and of fome Colophonia: that,faithhe, isthedrieft RofGinofall,which fomecall Frida, others Colophonia:becaufe in timespaft, as Diofco- ridswwsiteth it was, fetched from Colophon,this being yellow or blacke in comparifon of the reft,is whitewhen it is beaten:P/iny in his 14.booke,20.chapter. ; Thefecond Rofin is named in Grecke fram fret, {pecially that of the Pitch tree without fatneffe, and that foone waxeth dry whichGalen in his 6. booke ofMedicines according to the kindes, calleth Ploperly gvnus mruirer: that which in Afia is made of the Pitchtree being very white, is called Spagas,as Pliny teftifieth. Tr ioe The third is called in Grecke hmm sestain, the fame is alfo named Hawacertinvn this is: vynknowne i thops.Yet there is to be fould a certaine dry Rofin,but the famie is compounded of the Rofins ofthe Pine tree,of the cones or clogs,and of the Firre tree mixed altogether,which theycall GariPiethis isvfed in perfumes in ftead of Frankincenfe, from which norwithfandingit farre diffeteth, | The Temperature and Vertucs. All the Rofins are hot and diy, but not all after one manner: for there is a difference among them; they which be fharper and morebiting, are hotter, as that wh ich commethof the cones, ting ofRofins the hotteft,becaufe it is alfo the fharpeft: the Rofin of the Pitch Tree is not fo them Much biting, and therefore notfo hot : the Rofin of the Firte tree is ina meane betweenof the oth ; the liquid Rofin of the Pine is moifter, comming neere to the qualitie andfacultie arch Rofin. ; OM i The Rofins which areburntor dried,as Diofcorides teftificth,are profitablein plaiftets,an im ; Politions that eafe wearifomeneffe; for they do not onely {upple or mollifie,but alfo by reafon o Wee aay ‘hethinneffe of their parts arid dryneffe, they digeft : therefore they both mollifie and Wellingsand through the famefacultic they cure weatifomineffe, being vfed in compound mediCinesforrtha that purpofe. . a wae fc vp of grectie C commiended for the _ The liquid Rofins are .very fitlys mixed: in ointments, ogether, : 4 er alfo glue and vaite themtogeth wounds,for they both bring to fuppuration,and doYyyyy rv Moreduer; |