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Show site THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE éleere. and liquid Rofin, in tafte like vnto the peclings or outward sinde of the Pomecitron. : ic Li7e. Thetime ofthe Fitre tree agreeth with Pine trees. iansof our time thefame lin Latine Uabie naineth wholeand vncornupt: itis calledin ee aioe q ~ Thainen baum ¢ in lowe Dutch W foete in Spanith Aveto: it : hig Dut ! eeand weit ThHannen, ; 1 and Maft-hoams in 1183 There growethalfo vpon the Larchtree akinde of Mufhrum or exctefcence, not onothertrees, but whiter, fofter, more loofe and {pungiethen any other of the Mutt for medicine, medicine, which which beareth tl 5S; or Agaricke: y KE: other find ofnd the Muth good for beareth thename of; C4garieuws, that P that P/x 5 S 1 4 5 474 allthe Mafticke trees , and thofe that beare Gals; do bringfoorth this Gaia a i ntalley t 5 ‘ iar icuim, fomewhat deceived andefpecially in that he tooke Glandifera for Conifera,that is,thofe trees y x ch aw Sap,or Sapin : the other is heliquid Rofin which is taken foot in Latine Lachryma Firre trees, is called in Greeke id fallly Terebinthina Veneta, or Venice Turpentine: ‘in fhops of Germany, asalfoof in Italian ZLagrimo ; divers dothinke that Diofcorides calleth it é 0 na, or Oilie Rofin ; bur oilic Rofin is the fame that Pix Gquida,or Taris. 7 AbietumRefinaor dric Rofin of the Firtrees,is rightly called in Greek érertmandin dis oftentimes vfed among otherperfumes inftead of Frankinfence. . Thetemperature. beare Mafte or c Acornes,forthe Pine apple trees: butamongall a : : f among the trees thatbeare4 harbe Acari¢n Garic larchis the chiefe,and bringeth moft plentie ofAgarick, i 1 Laricts ramulws. Abranchof the Larchtree, 2 Larix tum Acarico fh. The Larchtreewith : fthis Agarick, enature ofthe Pitch tree and his gums, The barke,fruit,and gums of the I A OF PLANTS. ofaftronger {mell,and in tafte bittererandhotter: butthe latrer is thought not to be the Rofin of theLarch, but of the Firre tree, which Galen bicaule itis after a fortlike in {abftance , might aichuns ‘i haue Aubitance ce taken for that of the Larch tree, Theliqu ‘ i ricke humors,cleanféth and mundifieth the kid and rarand the powder of Nutmegs, cureththe ftrangurie,ftaieth the Go- B called the running ofthe rains, and the white norrhcea or the vauoluntatie iffue of mans nature fiuxe in women. the wounds of the head: fri Irisveryprofitable forall greene andfrefh wounds, efpecially C efpecially if it be wathedin Plantaine water, and afterwardin Kole ly, healeth andclenfeth m eats, nnesyfearced, nd Mafticke finely andMatticxe ib 1 of O/¢bamum vithtlthe powders eto,with eg an Ike ofof water,tie yoike addingg thereto alittle Saffron. Ofthe Lai Chap. 41. : se The defirittion. a ght vp:the bar =whereofin He Larchisa tree of no fmall height,witha body growing ftrai wich! 5 es chink of full and ed, the neather part beneath the boughes is thicke, ; hin oa flipperie,fomet cut in funder is red within, and in the other part aboue {m ooth, ie 4 be tough’ without: it bringeth foorth manybot dit fler branches,which itherliketa pliable.The leaue which fall awayatthe a J rags + The place. purpe ; red 5 of a braue it long longer, 4 put 1 ughes, being at acethofe of 4 sto the be round,andgrowou . The cones be {mal ofa multitude of t Ke onthe ry ngs wafpes; the fubftanceof : in the middelt,(omewhat red able for works efpecially that yt Resin Pucbfias writeth , thatit growethalfo in erete Lufatia, in the borders « Bits repor XC} a “Tris not true that the woodof the Larch tree cannot be fet onfire,as s cured iam far befieged; for it burneth in chimnei¢es, andi caftell made of Larch wood,y coles,which are very p There is alfo gatl able for Smithes,asAdathiolswriteth, 1 whiter hony,as that of/ + ef oech hooke of medicines : ge han a fort beafter twokindes hereof, in his fourth re more qu ter 1 l s fab the Larch treealiquide Rofin, very like in colour gee ant notwithftanding iffureth not foort! 1s iens wisor of S; aine, which a very hart with 2 = ] of the tree,when it hath been bored even to the very but runneth outo ere 1 - TheLarch tree Srowethnot in Greece,orin Macedoni,but chic fely vponthe Alpes of Italy,ttot ateftom Trene,hatd bythe riners Bomacus and Padus sandalfoin other nlaces of the fame mouncountrey of the yesiitis likewife found on hils in Morania, whichintimes pattwas cg edtheee T : sarpe i; 3 cording to the kinds,one like ynto I urpentine,the other more fharp er tha this, wey alfo growethplentifully in the woods ofGal ia Gilalp tte fink Bich 9.¢ aap ets _ Piinielvath faid fomwhat heerof,contradiéting the writings of others,in his 516.book and notonely the {pecially the ‘Acotne treesof France dobeare Agaricke fate fas hie ¢ the is tree brinthat brin chiefe es butthat the Gone trees alfo; among which faith he,the Larch he oyueti¢faith, tree arch 3 ky d Fraunce, but rather in Pltoorth Agaticke , andthatnot onely inxGallia , whhich noweis calle msimbatdie bar di and Piemont in ; Italy, where thetebe whole w oods of Larch trees, although they be t : Sunde jn fome ates {mall quantitie in other cotintries. eye ily be broken, very loofe and fpyngie ‘ ? : : kifh,and Agarickis that whichis whiteft, d wet he e is o e which e that t: de,an ompaé e,har vellc ard thang, ndinthe firft fwe afte fwect irft ratte a ed perms v “eit Ng init little threeds as it were offinewes,is count HTM |