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Show SENETae 1476 “Lin.3. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. eth and therein dothfarreexcell it) is an hedge plant growing not abouethe height offeiieap five cubits,hauing toughandpliant ftalks and twiggie branches like to Ozicrs, ofabrown colbae ale The leaues be round,thick,and ftiffe like the leaues of Capparis,in colour and faitorofPifta or Terebinthus,among which arifeth a {mall vpright {prig, bearing many{mal cluftering little e Ofthe Hiftory ofPlants. verie excelfunmes ofmency,vnto thofe that dreffe Spanith skinnes, for whichpurpofe they are lent. The root of Cotinus,as Anguillara noteth,ferueth to diewith,giuing to wooll and clotha reddith B colour,which Pliny knew,fhewing that this fhrub(that is to faythe root) is adlimeamenta modo.Cén= thylj colore infignis. nith yellowfloures,vponlong and redftalks. Afterwhichfollowfinall reddith Lentill-like fa that carty at the tops a moft fine woollyor flockie tuft,crifped and curled like a curious wntoupl filken ficece,whichcurleth and foldethit felfeabroad likea largebuthofhaires, I Cogeyeria T heophrafti. S Venice Sumach. & or o Cuar. 113. OftheeAlder Tree. Cotinus Coriarius Plini,’ ay, Red Sumach, q The Defcription, ot He Aldertree or Aller, isa great high tree having manybrittle branches, the barke is of a browne colour, the wood or timber is not hard,and yet it will laftand indure’ verie long vnderthe water,yea longer than any other timber wharfoeuer:wherefore in the fenny and foft matith grounds they do vfe to make piles and pofts thereof, for the ftrengthening of the walls and fuch like. This timber dothalfoferue very well tomake troughes to conuey water in ftead of pipes ofLead.The leauesofthis tree are in fhape fomewhat like the Hafell,but theyare blacker & more wiinckled,very clammie to handle,as though theywere {princkled withhonie: Thebloffome or flouresare like the aglets of the Birch tree:which being vaded,there followetha {caly fruit clofely growing together,as big as a Pigeons egge,which toward Autumnedoth open,and the feed fallethi outand is loft. ignore 5 1 Alnus. The Aldertree. $ 2 Alnus hirfuta, Rough leaued Alder. «))) a E me q The Place. 7, vpon the Alpes of Cozeygria groweth in Orleans neere Auignion, and in diuers places of Italy ods of the hig hwo Styria,and manyother places. It groweth on moft of the hils of France, in the wpper Pannonia or Auftria,and alfo of Hungaria and Bohemia. q The Time. They floure and flourith for the moft partin Iuly. The Names. Piscal: Venice Sumach,or Silken rateof The firft iscalled Cogeygria, and Coccygria:in Englith, mount Apenninea fhrub si? is, te he,on is,faith #y,Cotings in his 16.booke,18.chapter. here Cotinus is Olcaster, ot olea {ylné ied led Cotinus ad lineamenta modo Conchyl¥ coloreinfignis,and yet therfore it may rightly a mold a differ,and much doth fhrub whichthis tree,from wilde Oliue not found in any © . ies, OF nameis itScotinuswhich named haue would tinus Coriaria. Divers foal fhrubis < agen * n Jeate, this that thought isalfo it : Farblanff it ters. The Pannonians do call alfolike i re no othe words:Coggyg71a1s thefe in hewriteth which in his 1 3.booke,22.chapter happenetiv downe,which thing not fogreat;it hatha property to loofe the fruit with tree. @ The Temperature. The leaues and flender branches togetherwith the feeds are very drie 4s ding, cold and muc hbinindi oie d I taly ¥"fammes q The Vertues. for great Br. the other kindes of Sumachate. fold in the markets of Spaine 4 AA. Theleaues ofCageygria.or Silken Sumachyare £2 Clufiusand Bauhine haue obferued another kinde ofthis which differs fromthe ordinary, % that it hath larger and more cut leaues,and thefe notfhining aboue, but hoary vnderneath: the “atkins, asalfo the rough headsare notfo largeas thofe ofthe former:the barkealfo is whiter.cl#hus makes ic his Alaus altera:and. Banhinesiis CAlaus hirfatus,oxfolio incano. + 5 THe |