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Show 1384 Cua P.3O: ‘TLheatram Botanicum. >Tripe 15, Cuar. XXX. Rofa Hiericontea.. The Rofe of Hiericho; 8 Here hath beene obfervedtwo oTof this {mall planc, sae ee Rofe of Hiericho, thé one ‘accounted a 8 wilde wi r groweth in as barrenplaces as the other: fortsand yett he Z one Roja Hyericontea valeo hte The vulgar Rof of Hiericho, a The Rofe of Hiericho isa {mall bufhy plant growing full of wooddy brittle branclies, fetina round compaffe,and fyndry fmall leaves on them, farre lefier then thofe of the Willow, and more neere unto the Priver: the flowersftand thicke clultring together, made of foure white leaves growing out of long uskes, wherin afterwards is contained two fall fecde, the roote is long and wooddy. Thisis faid to {mell fomewhat sae ofa Hiericontca, 5 whatfharpe. 2. Rofa Hiericonteafylveftris, The wilde Rofe of Htericbo. \ \\) , {weete,but I could neverfinde it fo,and to talte fome- S AN hy , h Fe Wiss ) \ f ‘A The wild {ort groweth in the famemanner, as the former,bat che wooddyftalkes are {tifter and harder to breake,and hath (as it isfaid) neither {mell nor tafte. = N= 3 ve Nee ida Vv k iy )NyESE ; BORG SY 5 e) i) fot Yh PAN YLA) The Place and Time, Both thefe forts growin Syria and Arabia, as Bellonius and Ranwolfius have obferved in their travailes, The Names, Tt js called Rof# de Aierirho, and Hiericcoutez> and Rofa Mariz,byoll that have writtenof it,(the Monkes TREES AND SHRVBS. CLASSIS DECIMASEXTA, THE SIXTEENTH TRIBE, CHAP. f. as Bellonius faith,being the firft inventers, of thename, and of the fuperititions they added toit, when ashe faith he found none hereof growing about Hicricho, but onely in Arabia, in the defart land neere the red Sea) except Cordvs and his Father before him,. who tooke itto be Amamum,but faith Authonius MH/6 contraryed that opinion for divers refpects, and yet hee contumationfly would uphold his fathers error, which fhewethhowneceflaryitisto fee the face of things Quercus, Thé Oke, N this Claffis, Tam to thew you all thofe kindes of Tiées, whether great, or leffer, uftially called Shrubbes, which grownaturally in they be tall and thefe Countries of Afia minor, the hether part of Africa, beft and longeft knowne tous,and Europe, and that have not beenc difperfedly already {poken of herétofore: For the infinite kindes that grow in Afia major, the Ealt India, and America,t he Weft India, befides thar want the knowledgeofthe moft ofthem ; would furnifha capacious yolume by we them-= felves: and therefore in my laft Claffis I will onely give youa hint of fome, either of beft ufe or beft knowne, andinthis,as I thinke is fitcelt begin with the Oke. growing as Camerarius and others,who having fowne the fede, doth fay it doth in fome fort reprefent 2 Thlafpi, having buta little fharpe tafle in the branches Oncly androote. Ravwolfiws 7 — ee =a rtin Syria, growing amongthe rubbifh, and ox PRM TECE S. The Trees that beare Acornes, called in Latine Glandifere arbores, doc compres Pode a. aa thereforecalleditawildekinde, Cordus to puta diftin&tion beeweene' thefe hd Dishsalled ais former Amomumand the later Amomis, comparing and firting the defcription of fnew in Mia Ede patel the forme and parts thereof, yet howlike foever he would make it,ic commeth eee a ho iasiaere ide as itis well knowne nowadayes. -Gerardon the contrary fide would referre ittoa Heath, whe as the orher, The Vertues, ee Ttisnor found afefullin phyficke for any refpeét that I can tearnc : this onely property bintetLowoy foeverthe plantis,being broughe from beyond Sea, yet ifit be fet in water for a while, Uh * he thes aa all felfe abroad,that all the inward parts may be diftin@ly obferved howit groweth, and ne ous and will clofe loft,yetthe {cede and the veflells remaine, from whence ifit be frefh,the fecde raken hat Bet ai a chat it did up againe after'a while,that it is tsken out of the water, not asthe es h ah f see aehens Open miraculoufly,that night that our Saviour was borne,and thatit would doe fo in what a € = sali alo. the woman with childe abiding therein,(hall be neere her time ofdelivery-for wich moyfturea pen,and not withoutit. henid five feverall kindes, which are Quercus, Ilex, Suber, Smilax Arcadum glandis Sera, and Phellodrys, and for want of fit Enghfo names to fortunto each,we arc forcedto call them all Okes, and to diftinguif h them, give them feverall epithites, according to their qualities, The Querc#s or Oke is parted againe into five forts,all of them having divided leaves, called firft,Platyphyllos Latifolia Quercus, Hemeris five Etymodrys Veriquercns or Robur,Phagos Efculus,eAgilops Cerrus mas vel majore glande, and Haliphleos Cerras femi-= nafeve minore glande ; Of thefe and their feverall /pecics in this Chapter, andofthe reft inthe fucceeding, every onein their order. 1, Quercus latifolia, The broad leafed Oke. This Oke, which as Etake it is the molt commonin our Land growet hto be agreat tree, and of fong continus ance, efpecially if it growina fertile foyle, thetruncke or body whereof is covered witha thicke rouct barke, full of chopsand lifts; the armes or bougheslikewifeare great, difperfing themfelves farre abroad, stanrs cut in or gafhed about the edges, fmooth, and of a fhining greene colour, whereonis often found a molt {weete dew ,fomewhat clammy,and upondivers of themare found growin g around fpongye fubftance; called an Oke Apple,whereofI fhall {peake more hereafreramong the forts of excreflences. It beareth {mal!, yellowith mo{ flowers, {tanding clofé together upon long ftalkes, which whollyfa The ll fruite or Acornes rifing upin {andry other places, upon fhortftalkes, awayin the beginning ofthe Spring, two or three for the moft part j ether, whole onter rinde or skinne is browne being ripe and tough, the lower end being fet or placed roughhollowcup,the nat or kernell within being hard,cleaving into ARBO- ‘The rootes aregreat.and {preadfarre and deepe, fome thinking that two‘ parts, and ofa reafonable (weere they runne as deepe into the ground, as tt growhighabove ir, The timber or woodis firme,ftrong toughan d yellowifh,with a {mooth great graine, y {moother and firmer in {ome places thenin others, being the moft durable either above ground or under, ont land, orin the water,b eyond anyother kindof timber almoft,and enduring both moilture and drougth above.a the outer parc being called the fappe, is as all know whiter and leffe durable. : Some have made one or twoforts more of thiskinde, one with greener ,yet morehairy or wo olly leaves,ar withfo manydeepecuts therein,that they feemeas curld thereby ; another with a {horter leafe and more j at the bottome, both of them with fmaller Acornes then Kinde hereof moft likely, not farre from Lifbborne not the former. C/fiws alfo faith that he found adw: above a foote high, bearing broad leaves w edges, whofe acornes were as great as thofe of the commo n Oke, but verybitter, ftanding in f, and faith alfo that on the hils neeree the Straights or Hercales pillars,there are fo lesne at tea Winter, cars, , Datechampim teavesallthe : and oan os eth the fame to be found on the called |