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Show 1162 B THE THIRD e Thebatkeof the roote boiled in water vntill it bee diffolued and laide on all night, maketh the hairé blacké,if theybe fet (coured with Camelia a8 Diofcorides faith. C ’ Clafus reporteth that the Acorne is efteenied 6f,eaten,and brought into the maikettobe folde, in the citieof Salaiancain Spainey andin many otherplaces of that countrey randofthis Acorn Phinie allo hath peradventure writtetin his 16.book 5.chapter.in thefe words ; Moreouiet theréis ferued atmens tables for a fecond courfe ali Spaine thorow,an Acorne. 1163 foorth anotherkind ofexcrefcence which the Grauer hath omitted in thee figure, which is called in Grecke edznor, Gaza nameth it Pens: § this.Pemteorpricke is hollow moflic, hanging downe halfe ayardé long’, like a long rag¢eof linnenclorhy | , who 4) ‘Thefecondis aleogither likethefirit, faving thatthis beareth falter 1¢ whole as Acornes’, andthe neeisaltogitherleffer ,v Hereiniconfitteth thedd rer The p Nace, cesit isfel domet imes found found: ; andth sUis iedo ands at butin me times i woodes onelys s Pianyteporrerhi, This Oke groweth in \ itisfot the moft part vnknc Of thereat Holme Oke. se HISTORITE,OF PLANTS; BOOKE OF THE Chap.32. The time, They bringfoorth their nthe falbofele leafe, The Win eS. L Ceryis maiore Glande. he Holme Oke with great Acornes, » 2 Cerris minore Glande. both of ewiferoneg ti teaieecs ofcorne;called Ges 1 in Latine Sn wile one ‘offhe the difeafes Fesfy= I le tree AEgilops. amed ofPiiniein his'16.bodkeS,chapter Panu oneets : : gethfoorth Panos arentes, withered prickles , couered wne,notonelyin the barke; but’al/o-from the boughes,halfea feffer Acornes, Ma Nie ‘4 WZ p i bignes, Wefinde nothing» ennde nothing expetience, % The defcription. , fitar Morig'the wilder Okes this is not theleaft,for hisicomely propottion,althoughMP fot ble for: timber, to make coales,cattes, wainfcor,hoifes,or fhips of ithe ee Chinanpenit t masiorbeafhro eat;ineitherany propertie knownfor the vie of Phificke or rolooke ¥p0% groweth vpto the height ofa faitetree: thetrunke orbodieis great 5 arid weyafoot which mie Sd “couples the wood or'tinikenfoftand {pungie,fcarce good to be burned; from the mo *P ; comely branches,difperfing chemfelues farre abroad, whereonare fet forynderneat's cut fs OF xuflet colour Forel very fa'teleaues, greene aboue ,. and. of an ouerworne about the edges very deepe:,the Acorne groweth faft vntothe boughes alenauit Hike abee at all; being verygreat like vnto our common Acotne , fetin a rough and pre f orbrisiget f oNBp hoese or che Chefitur huske,of aharfh rafte,and hollow within:this tree beareth likewe oftentimes a certaine fmoothkinde of Gall , altogither vuprofitable: ¢ his Oke Q y as we haue faideam ng ointments, emperatire and verties. iltiesiofof this lites this tree tre among among thethe old old writers:neither writers:neither four ofour ow! owne |