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Show Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants, 1434 L 15.3, | ~ and oilous in fubftance, and of a pleafant fauour: this plant beareth an empty cod, or crodked horne fomewhat reddith,whetein are found {mall flies, wormes or gnats, bred and ingendred ofg certaine humorous matter, which cleaueth to the innerfides of the faid cods or hornes, which wormes haue no phyficall vfeat all, Therght Turpeutine iffueth out of the branchesof thefe trees, if you do cut orwound them, the whichis faire and cleere, and better than that which Is pa thered fromthe barke of the tirre tree. 2 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. “La B. 3. thetero the G The like quantitie wafhed in water divers times vntill it be white,then muft be put by little andlittle(conlike quantity ofthe yolk of an egge,and laboured togetheradding thereto giuen todrink in the tinually ftirring it)a {mall draught ofpoffit drinke made of white wine, and commonly atthe morning, fafting,ithel eth moft {peedily the Gonorthea,or running ofthe reines, ftooles ¢cttime, but che aakcive neuerfaileth atthe fecond time of the taking ofit,which giues fom foure to cight,according to the age and ftrength of the patient. The fecond kindc of Turpentine tree is very like vnto the former, but that it growethnot fo great: yet the leaues are greater and broader,andofthe fame fafhion,but very like'tothe Jeanes ofthe Piitacia tree, The bervies are firft of a f{carlet colour,and when they be ripeof a skieco. Jour. The great horned cods are fharpe pointed, and fomewhat cornered, confifting asit were of the fubftance ofgtiftles. Andout of thofe bladders being broken,do creepe and comefinal] Ales Cuar. 86. Of the Frankincenfe tree. or gnats, bredofa fuliginous excrement, and ingendred in thofe bladders. The tree doth alio q| The Defcription. yeeld his Turpentine bydropping like the former. q The Place. Thefe trees grow, as Diofcorides faith,in Iurie, Syria, Cyprus, Africke,and in the Iflands calfed Cyclades. Bellonius veporteth that there are found great ftore of them in Syria, and Cilicia, andare brought from thence to Damafeus to be fold. C/ufiss faith, that ir growes ofit felfe in Lanoue. docke, and invery manyplaces of Portingale and Spaine, but for the moft part like a fhrub,and without bearing Turpentiue. Theophraftus writeth,that it groweth about the hill Ida, and in Macedonia, fhort,in manner ofa thrub, and writhed ; and in Damafcus and Syria great, in manner ofa {mall tree: he alfo fecteth downe a certaine male Turpentine tree, and a female : the male,faithhe, is barren, andthe female fruitfull. And of thefe he maketh the one with a berry tedat the firft,of the bigneffe ofa Lentill, which cannot come to tipenes ; and the other with the fruit greene at the firft, afterwards fomewhat ofa yellowith ted, and in the end blacke, waxing ripe in the {pring, of thebigneffeofthe Hetree from which Frankincenfe floweth is but low,and hath leaues like the Maftick tree,yet Tine are ofopinionthatthe leafeis like the leafe ofa Pearetree, and ofa graffie colour: the tindeis like that of the Bay tree,whereofthere are twokindes : the one groweth in mountains and rockieplaces, theother inthe plaine : but thofe in theplainesare much worfe than thofe of the mountaines : the gum hereofisalfo blacker, fitter to mingle with Pitch, and fuch other ftuffe to trim fhips,than for other vfesArbor Thurifera. The Frankincenfe tree. Thuris Limpidifolium Lobely. : The fuppofedleafe ofthe Frankincenfe tree. Grecians Beane,and rofenny. He alfowriteth of acertaine Indian Turpentine tree, that is to fay,a tree like in boughes and leaues to the right Turpentinetree, but differing infruit, whichis likevnto Almonds, @| The Time. The floures ofthe Turpentine tree come forth in the {pring together withthe newbuds: the berries are ripe in September and O Gober, in the time of Grape gathering. The hornesappeate aboutthe fame time. @ The Names. 5 This tree is called in Greeke npantr,and alfo many times npchee: in Latine,Terebinthus in Itali- an, 7 érebzntho : in Spanith, Cornicabra : in French,Terebente « in Englith, Turpentinetree: the Arabians call it Botin, and with an article Calbotiz. ; The Rofin is furnamednpunsn: in Latine, Terebinthina : in high Dutch, SBermintifn in Eng- lifh, Turpentine, and right Turpentine: in the Arabian language 4/botiz, who name the fiat Granum viride, or greene berries. | The Temperature andVertues. A The barke, leaues,and fruit of the Turpentinetree do fomewhat binde,they are hotinthe fecond degree,and being greene they dry moderately ; but when they are diyed they dry in thefe- cond degeee; and the fruit apptoacheth more neere to thofe that be dry in the rhird degree, end alio hotter. This is fitrobe eaten, as Diofcorides faith, but it hurteth the ftomacke. : _ At prouokethvrine, helpeth thofe that haue bad {pleenes,and is drunke in wine againft the bitings of the poyfonfome fpiders called Phalangia. + _ The Rofin ofthe Turpentinetree excelleth all other Rofins accordingto Diofcorides his opialnion: but Galen writeth, that the Rofin of the mafticke tree beareth the preheminence, and then the Turpentine, ‘ This Rofin hath alfoan aftringentor bindingfacultie, and yet not fo muchas matticke; pee D hath withall a certaine bitternefle ioyned, by reafon whereofit digefteth more than that 0! the Mafticke tree : thorowthe fame qualitie there is likewife in it fo greata clenfing, as alfo irhealeth feabs,in his 8. booke ofthe faculties offimple medicines ; but in his booke ef medicines acc’ ding to the kindes, he maketh thatofthe Turpentine tree to be muchlike the Rofins ofthe ae tree, whieh he affirmeth to be moifter than all the reft, and to be withont both fharpneffe andDis ting. E F Thefruit of Turpentine prouoketh vrine and ftirreth vp flefhly luft. The Rofine ofthis tree, whichis the right Turpentine,loofeth the belly openeth the ftop pings, of theliner and fpleene, prouokethvrine, and driveth forth gravell, being taken the quanti!®ie ol two ofthree Beanes,. Ths Thue inhis Cofmogtaphie faith,that the Frankincenfetree doth refemblea gummieorrofiny ite treewhich yeeldetha iuice that in time groweth hard, and is called Thus, Frankincenfe, in vhom is found fometimecertaine fmall graines like vnto grauell, which theycall the Manna’ of ; Tnkincenfe, Ofthis there is in Arabia twoother forts,the one,the gum wherofis gathered inthe Dog daies Whenthe Sun isin Leowhich is white,pure, cleare,and fhining. Pea writeth that he hath feene Ne cleare Frankincenfeé called Limpidum, and yeelding a very fweet {meliwhenit is burnt, but the tafe hath been feldome feene;which the Phy fition Lawnanus gaue to Pena and Lobel, together with he could affirme nothing ofcerOMe pieces ofthe Ro fine,whichhe had of certaine mariners, but intie whether it were the leafe of the Frankincenfe,or of fomeother Pine tree; yeelding the like the lower part or foot Mee or gum. It is,faith he (which doth feldom happen in other leaues) from a fheath Sithe leafe,to the vpperend,as it were doubled,confifting oftwo thin rindesor coats,with *ipanarida halfe long,at the top gaping open likea hond or fooles coxcombe,andas it were coueTedwith a helmet which is athing feldome feeneina leafe,but is proper to the floures of Napellue, or Eeecec 2 F fi emg: |