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Show 1198 THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF PLANTs, % The defeription. The thirde kinde of wilde Pine tree,groweth ftraight vpright, and waxeth great andhie growlike the pitch tree: the fiuitis longand not fehigh as the ovher wilde kindes :the branches do big almott like the fruitof the faid Pitch trees wherein are contained finall triangled nuts, like the nuts of the Pine apple tree, butfinaller andimore brittle in which is contained a kernellofa good tafte, like the kernell ofthe tame Pine apple: thewoode jsbeautifull,andfweete of {miell, good to make tables and other workes of. 4 Thereis another wilde Pine of the mountaine, not differing from the precedent but in ftarure, 7 Teds,fuse pfendopinus. The baftard wilde Pine. mountaines of Liuonia, Polonia, Noruegia, and Ruffia, efpecially vpon the Iand called Holand within the Sownde, beyonde Denmarke , and in the woods by Narua yponthe Liefeland fhore, and all the tra& of the way, beinga thoufande Werfts (cach Werft containing three quarters ofan Engliflmile) from Narua vato Mofcouia, ae haue feene them gtowe ininfinite num- 6 Pinus fylucfirisminor, Lhe ogreat Sea Pine tree. ers. Thelittle Sea Pinetree. 4 Yi We %Theplace, Thefe wilde Pines do stowe yponthe colde erowing for the moft partlike a hedge tree,wherein is the difference. 5 Pings maritima maior. 1177 %& The time. Thefruite ofthefe Pinetrees is ripe in the end of September : out ofafl thefe iffieth foorth 2 Lyd) Nily Y \ AAA 4 \ white and fweete fmelling Rofin : they are alfo changed into Teds, andout ofthefe is boiled throughthe force of the fire, ablacke Pitch :the Pitch tree and theLarchtree be alfo fometimes changed into Teds yet vetie feldome,for Teda isapropert & peculiar infirmitie ofthe wilde Pine tree, A tree is faid to be changedinto Tedz,when not onely the hart ofit, but alf the reft of the fubftance is turnedinto fatnes, % Thenanes. Allthefe arecalled in Greeke m'ics dnote: 41 Latine Sylueftres Pini: ofPlinie Pinafri: Pi faith he in his 1 6.book 10, chapter, isnot! but Pinus fyluefrisorthe wild Pine tree,of a lefler height, andfullofboughes from ther the tamePinetree in the top, (moft ofthe copies hatefalfelyOf 2 maruelous height; they are farre deceited whothinke chat the Pinetreeis called nGreeke xine, befides the tame Pine which notwithandingis focalled not ofall men, but onely of tit Atcadians (as we hauefaide before) zis, allmen do name the wilde mei: and therefore Tede atthe Torch Pine heerofis faid to bein Latine not Picea, but Pévea, that is, not the Pitch tree, but WePing tree,as Owid doth plainly teftifie in his Epiftles ofnoble men: Vt vidi,vtperi, nee notisignibus ari, CArdet vt ad magus Pinca Teda dees. Aloin FaStorum 4. %& Thedefcription. 5 Mic accenditgeminas pro lampade Pinus, ThiskindeofPine called the fea Pinetree , groweth notaboue the s' fonger fomwhat wing leaues like the tame Pine tree.but fhortersthefruite is of the fame forme, butlon>"> fafhionedlikea Turnep :this tcee yeeldeth very much Rofin. So F e of {hr 6 Thefixtkinde ofwilde Pine being one ofthe Sea Pines , groweth like an hedge tre pucalwalts : wnt : leak arch tree ’ feldome exceeding the height ofa man; withlittle leaues like thofe of the Latc continuingwith a very little cone,andfinefinalkernell. or bodie,asalfothe™ 7 Thebaftard wilde Pine tree groweth vptoa meaneheightsthe trunkeuh ches andleaues arelike vnto thofe ofthe manuredPine tree:the onely diftere hedge> ¢ is, thatlome Hine Cererisfacrts nunc quogue Teds datur. Thefame doth Virgifal{o fignifie in the 7.0f his AEneid. Ipfa inter mediasflagrantemsferuida Pinum Suftinet. Whe;tin i fleede of Flagrantem Pinwm, ; Lt et at wevs to to ynderitand ynderttand Seruius admonifheth Teds Pinch, ft en, as i g oft ryin "G® "1. tretre e,vaty : tote of felfe;8cthe other yeres as awiild thepineit ffe momen" efemblandeth itrplaice «ike e amongft hir delights, with otherpl ants ofle fporthit to cfelfe tree: the frywite! Birch tree: ay Birch isof ildi of the fubftance ofour but is Ft notfit for building, foft,and other wilde Pines whereofthis isakinde. Catullas |