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Show 1368 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. : Lis, 3) aMadeT a Eakin ther dothit rot norwax old, nor cleaueth or choppethit felf, ‘The leaues are long, roundlike thot of Tamariske, but fulleroffub{tance. The fruit or nuts do han g vpon the boughes,being in man! net liketo thofe ofthe Larch tgee,but yet thicker and:more clofely compaé :which being ri of themfelues part in funder, and then falleth the: feed,whichis fhaken.ont with the nt IME the fameis {mall, Hat, very thin, ofa fwart ill fauoured colour,which is pleafant to Ants or Pifn; iftites and.ferueth themfor food. Of this diuers make two kindes,the female andthe male ; the female barren,and the male fruit. full. Theophraftus reporteth, that diuers affirme the male tocomeofthe female. The Cyprette yeelds forth a certaine liquid Rofin,like in fubftance to that of the Larch tree, but in tafte mare, fous fharpe andbiting. S: The wilde Cyprefle, as 7-Aeophraftus writeth, is an high tree,and alwaies greene, fo like to the c other Cypreffe, as it feemeth to be the fame bothin boughes, body, leaues, and fruit, rather than, a certaine wilde Cypreffe : the matter or fubftance of the wood isfound, ofa {weet fmell,likethatof the Cedar tree, which rottethnot: there is nothingfo crifped as the root, and therefore the veto make precious and coftly workes thereof. om # I knownodifference betweene the wildeand tame ypreffe ofour Author but in the hand. ‘ fomneffe of their growth, whichis helped fomewhatbyart., + q| The Place. _ Thetamie and manured Cypreffe growethin hot countries,as in Candy,Lycia,Rhodes,and alfp in the territorie of Cyrene; it is reported tobelikewife found onthehills belonging to Mount Ida, and onthe hills called Lewci,that isto fay white, the tops whereof be alwaies couered with fnow. Bellovins denicthic to be foundyponthe topsofthefe hills, but in the bottomsonthe rough parts and ridges of the hills : it groweth likewife in diuers places of England whereit hathbene Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Lis. 3. They glue and lieale vp great vicers in hard bodies : they fafely and withoutharme foke vp and B confume the hid and fecret moifture lying deepe and in the bottome ofweake and moift infirmities. TheJeaues-.and nuts-ate good to cure the rupture, to take awaythe Polypus,being an excrefcence G growing in the nofe. ; Some do vfe the fame againft carbuncles and'eating fores , mixing themwith parched Barley D meale, Theleaues of Cypres boyled in fiveet wine or Mede,helpes the ftrangurie and difficulty ofma- E kingwater. Itis reported, that the fmoke of the leaues doth driue away gnats, and that the clogs do folike- F wife. The fhauings of the wood Iaid among garmentspreferueth them fromthe moths : the rofinkil- G eth Moths, little wormes, and magots. her ewo chapters of Dodoniews ; the one of Cyprefle,the other ofThy, ouc of Theophraftus and others: Vid.Pemprs Cuar. 46. Arbor Vite. The Tree ofLife. planted, as at Sion aplace neere London,fometime’a houfe ofNunnes: it eroweth alfo at Green: wich,andat otherplaces, andlikewife at Hampitéd in the earden ofM'. Wade,one ofthe Clerkes ofher Maiefties priuy Councell, * : Thewilde kinde of Cypreffe tree groweth hard by Ammons Temple, atid in other parts of the countrey ofCyrene vponthe tops of mountaines,and in extreme coldcountries, Belloniuafit meth,that thereis found a certaine wilde Cypreffe alfo in Candy, whichis not fo high as other Cypreffe trees, nor groweth fharpe: toward the top, but is lower, and hath his boughes fpred flat, round aboutin compaffe : hé faith the body thereofis alfo thicke: but whether this be Th«of G The Names. ‘ ‘A The tame Cypresis called in Greeke, xuneons, OF Kumpeie sin Latine Cupre(fue » in thos, Cy fas : in Italian, Cypreffo> in French and Spanith, Cipres : in hich-Dutch Cipeelenbaum sialon Dutch, Cppgeffe boom ¢ in Englith, Cypres, and Cypres tree. ; _ The fruit is named in Grecke, spipieste umpiae : in Latine, Pilule Caprefi, Nuces Cuprefirand alle ii : in thops, Nuces Cyprefs - in Englith, Cypres nuts or clogs, Thistree in times patt was dedica- like vnto thefruit of the Cypres tree, but {maller, compactof little and thinne fcales clofely pa& one vpon-anothet, which myfelfe haue nor yet feene. The branches ofthis tree laid downe in the earth wilveryeafily take root, euen like the Woodbinde or fome fuchplant; whichI haue.often proued,and therebyhaue greatly multiplied thefe trees. ee Pluto, andwas {aid tobe deadly ; whereuponit is thought that the fhadowthereofisvalor e. Thewilde Cypres tree is called in Greeke, sor Sim, and #» : fromthis dothdiffer s, being 2 make mention withalfinone verfe, of Cedrus and Thya : the copies hauefalfly Larix, or Larchittee, : inwhichitis manifeft thathe fpakeonely oftrees: che verfe is extant in the fftbooke of41% where he mentioneth, that stercurie by Jupiters commandement went to Calypfis den, and th did {mell the burnt trees Thya and Cedrus a great wayoff, =: Theophraftus attributeth great honorto this tree, fhewingthat the roofs ofold Temples bec™ famous byreafonof that wood, and that the timber thereof, of whichthe rafters are madeis lafting, andit is nor hurt there by rotting, cobweb, nor any other infirmitie or corruption. G) The Tereperature. thefruit and leques of the Cypres are dry in the third degree,and aftringent. A q. TheVertues. _ ag The Cyptes nuts being famped and drunkenin wine,as Diefcorides writeth, ftoppethtbe#™ and blondy firx., it is'good againft the {pitting ofbloud andall other iffues ofbloud. Hetree Tree of Life groweth to the height ofa {mall tree, the barke being of a darke reddifi colour: the timber yery hard, the branches {preading themfelues abroad, hanging down toward the groundbyreafon of the weakeneffé ofthe twiggie branchesfurcharged with very oileous and ponderous leaues, cafting, and fpreading themfelues like the feathers of awing, refembling thofe of the Samieor oileous fubftance : which being tudbedin the hands doyeeld an aromatick, fpicie,or gummie fauor,very pleafant ‘and comfortable : amongf the leaues come forthfmall yellowith floures,whichin my garden fall away without anyfruit: but as it hath beene reported by thofe tharhauefeene the fame, there followetha fruit in horregions , much The wilde Cyptes eree is late, and very long before it buddeth, name notofa plant, but ofa mortar inwhich dry things are beaten : Thya,as Pliny writeth, q| The Defcription. uine tree,but thicker,broader,and more ful of gum~ which Theophraftws and Pliny make mefition,we leaue it to confideration. = . 34 q The Time. ne tame Cypres tree is alwaies greene; the fruit may b red thricea y in Tanuatie, May, andSeptember, and tiiereforettt is fytnamed Trifere. oe aene cap.16.waswell knowne to Homer : he fheweththat this is burned amone thefweet {mells," Circe was muchdelighted withall, whomhe would haue to be taken for a goddeflle,to thei thatcall fweet and odoriferous finells, euenall of them,by that name , becaufe he doth efpeci#¥ Ofthe Tree ofLife. q ThePlace. plentifully. This tree crow sth not wilde in England, but it growethin my gardenvery a @ The Time. prs the winter in eeries int ofe his it llofe vet doth “ly I his ¢:gallant greenes , idureth the cold of our Northerne clymat, yet dothit ths : it floureth in my garden about May. ’ q The Names. Bs ‘ wer as fome thinke, haue called this fweet and aromatical tree T/ia,or T? in Englith,the tree of life, Idac : vita aes: Arbor t termei do s writer w thene : % meane that wi -of mention is made,Gen.3.22. @ The Temperature. s be hot and dry. Soththe leaues and bor q The Vertues. hraftus Among the plants of the} Jew-found land, this’ Tree, which T heop calls Thuia, ox Thy, 23 |