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Show HISTORIE OF PLANTS, THE THIRD BOOKE ‘OF THE % Thetime. Of the Orpreffe tree: lithe Cone trees onely the Larch tree isfound tobe without leaues in the winter: inthe hleauesourof t e knobs, from which the former did fall, The conesareto fooneas the leaves are gone: for after the feales are loofedand Cupreffws altera,fiue [yluetris, sfeedes drop away : the Rofin mutt be gathered in the fommer moneths, % Thenames. his tree iscalled Greeke aded: in Latine alfo Larix: in Italian and Spanith Larice ; inhigh Dutch Lerebettbaum ¢ in lowe Dutch Logkenboom: in French Atelefe: in Englith Larchtiee, The wilde Cypreffe tree. & The de(eriogi we fit atfeription, Hetame or manured Cypre long, thicke, and ftr many flender branches do growe , which do not{pread abroad like thet hes ofor a trees, but stow vp alongft the body,yernot tous ching the top; they growe afterthe fafhion ofa fteeple, broad below and narrowerowardes the top :the fubitance of the woodis harde:founde well compa,{weete offinell,and fomewharyel. low, almoft like the yellow Saunders, but not ale togitherfoyellows neither doth itrot, nor waxe old,norcleaueth or chappethit felfe, The leaues are long.round like thofe of T: ske,butmore full of fubftance. The fruit or nuts dohang vpon the boughes, being inrhannerlike ro thofe of the Larchtree; but yet thicker & more clofely com= pa: which being ripe do ofthemfelues part in finder, andthen falleth the feede, whic his fhaken out with the winde: the fame is finall, fat,verythin, ofa fwartill fauoured colour, whichis pleafarit to Aints or Pifmires, and ferueth them forfoode, The figure of this tree we do war and of fome Larix tree. The liquid Rofen is named by Galen alfo ade the Latines call it Re/ima Lavigma, or Refina Le. ricea, Larch Rofin : the Italians Largs the Apothecaries Terebsnthina, or Turpentine, andis olde andalfo mixedin medicines in ftead thereof: neither is that a thing newlydone 5for Galealikewife srteth, that the druggers fold the Larch Rofine in ftead of Turpentine, and thismay in his time terror: for Galen himfelfein oneplace vfeth Larch Rofin for Turpentines andin be done w ntine for Larch Rofin, in his booke of medicines accordingto thekindes, another Tu The Agaricke is alfo called in Greeke ¢) xov and asdennoe in Latine Agaricumand Agartem, and fo likewife in fhops: the Italians, Spaniards, and other nations do imitate the Greeke word, and elifh we callit Agaricke, se The temperatureand vertues. not fo firong, leaues.barke,fruit and kernell are of temperature like vnto the Pine, but andis withal arch Rofin is of a moyfter teniperature than all the reft of the Rofines, with medicines out fharpnes or biting, much liketo the right Turpentine, and is fitly mixed perfeétlycure vicers and greene wounds, effe joined with them,doas ([Rofins, faith Ga/en, chat haue this kinde ofm oviture and clammin qualitie, haue noeuident biting | itwere binde togither and ynite drie medicines, at 1d bicaufe they very well mixed with fuch com. they do moyften the vicers nothing atall ; therefore diuers haue pound medicines either TurpentineRofine, or Larch Rofine :thus far Ga/ea. Moreotetaa as we haue fai itts things that the Turpentine Rofine doth, ynto which, fine performeth all fuch muchlike in temperature,which thing likewile Galen himfelfe affirmeth. the ftoole. obftrudtions, and isa fire remedie for cold Agaricke cureth the yellow iaundies proceeding of fhakings,which are caufed of thickeand cold humors, that ate bit of venemous Thefame being inwardly taken & outwardly applied,is good for thofe : beafts which hurt with their colde poyfon, it maketh thebody wellcolouredints Itprouckerh vrine, and bringeth downe the menfes: feuers, and others thatale s, efpecially quotidians, and. wandring foorthv mes, ct s irperiot : : :: and thee the difeafe for ferue that things fit h mixedwit be long cont nuance.ifit, humors, methbydrawing foorth and purging awayof groffe, colde, and flegmatike ; the difeafes. ae of in powder: # Froima dram waight ora dramand a halfe to two,is giuen at once in fubftance ea appointed waightofit in an infafion or decoétionis from two drams to fiue. the ftomacke: and thereforestss PP ao Burit purgethflowly, and doth fomewhat trouble or Louage feede, or Sal gems feede, Carrot wilde withit,or mixed be that Ginger fhould i erogi™ . Sal fo/sis. fed: fomevi - Galenas Mefues dothreport, gaueit with wine wherein Ginger was infu L M with Oxymel,otherwife called firupe of vineger,whichis the fafeft way ofall. ceuill heingtakea eu Agarickeis good againft the paines and {wimming of the head, or the falling “4 ee ae a . of vineger. with the liruipe eae f . he ¢ she Jungs, JUNE 2 h of the : Itis good againft the thortneffe of breth called Asthma, the inuetetate ce {tomack,ca* ie! +. ptificke,c i ~ . weakeiand ption,and thofethar {pet blood: itcomforteth the . ' feth good digeftion,and is goodagainlt wormes, 1 and the ratherfufferit {o topafle,bicauteit is : to the old writersIe cutteth, Agaricke is hot in the ficft degree and drie in the fecond,accordingintrailes, and purgethalfoby ofthe maketh thin, cleanfeth, taketh awayobftrudtions or {toppings ale4 of Chap.42. knowen to moft, The figure of the w we haue fet foorth with his fruic. Ofthis diuers make two kin-les : the fem and the males the female barren; andthe m: fi mit ee reporteth that diuers affirme the male to come ofthe female, 4 ‘The Cyprefla cortha certaine liquid Rofin , like in {ubftance to that ofthe Larchtree, but in rafte mar- stots (Harpe or biting, Cyprefle, as Theophrafuswriteth, isan hightree, and alwaies greene folike to the as tremeth tobe the famebothin boughes, body, teauess =o a father thena ofthe Ced © Cypres: the matter ot fabftance of the wood isfounde , ofa fwe - fell eee tana. artree, which rotteth not: there isnothing fo crifped as the roote, and therefore they Cptecious and coftly works heereof, Thetameo ered Gyprcstree : The ee and ee. growethin hot countries, as in Candie, oeLycia,Rhodes pre eee Ba. ae of Cyrenia: itis reported tobelikewife foundon oe “on I i. ae ils called Zener, thatis to fay, white, the tops oa os fits ec denieth it tobe found vpon the tops of thefe hils, a ve) ra bottomes ont where ic hath been« Miledacars, ne hilstit gtowerh likewife in divers placesof Sika ualinaee Wich, and be ‘ ss aplace neere London, fometime a houfe a sanal AiAan ee ota torn retplaces: andlikewife at Hampfteedin the Garden of Maleriaide , ONS Nils T Sepihtaae Priuy Counfell. Recsctct CypieeegretabmTe { Temple andi other parts of the Belloniws aftirmeth, thete is found eee, ia aSOR whichis not lo : SNOF Stswetl ts: ee a dag sah di th his bougkes {pr bitin ec h fharpe toward the top,bur is lower , ana ne aon thes is alfothicke : bue whether this b Ncompatfe she faith that the bodythereof Theop“obra ps. and Pliny make mention,we leaueit to be confidered of |