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Show 139° Tbeatram Botanitcum. Cu ap.2, Tr 1B x 16. Cuavp. II. Excreffentia Quercunm. The Excteffences ofthefe Okes. roan eat many things that brecde upon fundry of thefe Okes, fome ofone fafhion fomeof an- the Gall, wheréof I ine ae iefo in fabltancelikewile, foft = hard, befides the Oke Apple and this, tend.to fpeake firft, I have given yon thedelcription of the tree in the Chapter la{t going before for Lwill but onely fhew youhere the diverfities of the Galles, andthe good pfes they are put, unto beare doe kindes medicine,or other purpofes, and I cannot underftand that any of the other former fort for althonghdivers of Galles but thofe that are here fer downe by the name of Rebur, whichis thefecond trees, bring Galles likewife, yer themhavea fhew of Galles, which made P/iny to fay that all Ackorne bearing theyare but fpungyballs for themolt part,and none {o good and hard Galles as they. as wood, but The Galles are of two forts,fmooth,and rugged or knobbed,both of them round and hard almoft iis vi- 931.9 little hollow within, and when theyaredry, are either whitithor yellowifh, but while they are greene and Wi! $e th uponthe trecs they are fomewhat foft and tender, and reddith towards the Sunne fide = all\ofthem ftand any falke clofeto the branches,and ftalkes without order,and fometimes one joyning clofe to another, without fatneffe, which underthem, Thereisalfo a blacke Gallasbiggeas an apple, fometimesfull ofa Roffin like ' _ will flame being {et on fire, 4 The Oke apple groweth upon fundryforts of thefe trees,and not on any one alone, for althoughin our Coun¢_ try oursare for the moft part round and foft,being frefh and full of waterifh fublta nce,but being dryed do fhrinke and are wrinckled. yet in otherplaces {omeare found fticking to the backe of the leaves, and containe.in them a _ cleere water andflyes therein, and are white, and as ir were tran{parent before they be dry and grow hard. Others are called Capi#ate, becaufe they are all hairy, and containe within them a honylike, liquor in the " Spring time,yet not putto any ufe. One | had out of Virginia with round hard rough or prickly balls on the leaves. i Othersare called Lanate, for that within an hard huske orfhell, chey containe certaine flockes of wooll, which . : ©. Lanaie. are fir for Lampes,but not without oyle or other untuous matter as P/iny faith it will. hey ecalled Seffiles growunder the joynts, atthe fettingto of the leaves clofe tothem without any i hite,and little {welling forth,and fometimesof fundry colours, and fometimes blacke, the middle :being hollow within, witha putride vacuity. led Foliacee,or Feliofz, that are made asit were of {caly leaves,like unto the head of the Knapweed td abroad in the ficldes. Lusrous cmpilula five farg fa:.g0f0 fac excremento. The Oke withthe Cke Apples, n QuerY cum Excrementa. The Okes Excreffences, Trine 16. «The Theaterof Plants.| Cuar.2, 1391 Another thing groweth on the branches under the leaves, that is like unto the cuppe or huske that containeth 9. Ca. the flower.of the Pomegarnet ot fuch like, Sometimes there hath beene {mall {oft {tones found like 19° Uva quercina, The Oke grape, 10,Pamez. pumice ftones,yet not oftenfeene. Around thing alfo hath beene found, which Theophraftus calleth Sycaminodes, and is fomewharlike untoa Mulberry, differing onely inthe colour, hrdneffe to be broken, and the harfh tafte. Another thing alfolike tothe privy membzrs of aman, both theyard andthe selticles, Thereis againe another thing found growing thereonlike a pricke inthe beginning, called by him but afterwards growing hard, taketh the forme of a Bulles head withaholeinir, and being brokenhath like an Olive ftone within it, Nitaralfoas Theophyajtvs faith, is made of the afhes of the Oke,which P/imy altereth in this manner: It is 5 te Sharp ¢ —@ E = ‘\ EX © OK, & - 12. Genitale witle. ; \ G 33 Capat Car : Nitar.| certaine chat the afhes oftheburnt Okeis like unto Nitar, hefaith, Cinerem nitro(um, and Gaza tranflateth it after P/ - ny in the fame words, The Acornes of&/culus the fweete Oke, and of Cerrusfemina,the female bitter Oke,have certaine {mall {tones fometimes found in them, citherat the end of the Acorne, or on the thell,and fometimesin the nur it felfe. The Oke alfo beareth a Cachrys, which Theophraffus in his chird Booke and feyenth Chapter, expoundeth to be a round conception or gathering together of leaves, growing betweene thelaft yeares fhoore, andthe young bud for the nexttocome, Cachrys alfo as Dio/corrdes' {heweth in the Chapter of Libanotw, isthe feede of the fruite bearing Libanotis, which burneth thetongue being chewed: but 2/s#y being deceived by this double acception of the word,confoundeth thembothtogether, and maketh them both but tga \ ‘i 14,Lepides, , one thing,faying/id, 16, c. 8. the Okebeareth Cachrys, which is afmall ball that hath the property of a caureriall medicine : but Theophraftus fhewerh in the place beforefet downe,that the Firretreee, Larch, Pitch, Line, Nutand Plane trees, doe beare a Cachrys afer the leaves are falne, abiding on all the Winter, There is growing on the Okes in Cilicia as Diofcorides faith in the 43, Chapter of his fourth Bookea Coccus or graine, which the womenthere gather with their mouthes, and islikeunto fmall Cockles or Snailes: this fee- 16. coegas methnot the fame, which he in the fame Chaptercalleth Coccews Baphica, and growection a {mall fhrubbe,é&c, as aleve, you fhall underftand hereatrer :' but fome learned Writers have taken them to be both one, namely the Scarlec graine,gathered from the lefler Holme Oke but (urely Dsofcorides meanech another kind of graine, which from theu‘e in Dying psu i was called Coccws, and mayperadyenture be the fame that 7Zarrhio/us faith he faw growing a- bout the todies of great Okes in Bchemiaynot tarre from ‘Poggibrot,in a Hare Warren of the Emperours,. which ted there and loft, bur was carefully kept in Polonia, where it groweth allo: or elf that which Lobel nthe end of the Chapter of the Scarlet graine, which he faith eroweth inthe middle of the leaves, e bodies allof imes of Okes,whichgraine is bigger then the other,and isround, réddith or yellowbhe allo faich growethon the Okes in the Woods by Baffin Germany, andin divers other placeg 4 sce, and Germany, rowing on thefe Okes,fome {weere and fome not, wheréof I have {poken alrea~ fo {ome Mufhromes mentioned among the Mufhromes, Whereof itis needclefle to 17-Mu/ci. owvethar the rootes of old Okes im the Spring time, and fomecimes alfo inthe 18, Fungi. of Summer, a peculier kinde of Mufhrome or Excreffence, called Uva quercina, {welling out of the / growing one clofe unto another, of the fafhionofa grape, and therefore tooke the name, The Oke 19: <u is ofa purplith colour on the outfide,and white within like milke, and in thé end of Summer becom. 2°°"* _ d or Wooddy, € is a certaine veremous Serpent called Drymus,taking his name from theplace of his breeding and chiefe 20.Drymud? g,whichis the roores of Okes. Theophraftus,D iofcorides,Galen,Nicander,and —Etiys, have all made men ’ of the wondrous venemous quality of this Worme orSerpent,and ofthe cure ofche poyfon. : The worme named Rance araucedine forte, breed in the rootes of Okes: and fo doe thofecalléd Galbe, but é- 21. Rance {pecially on the E/culas or fweete Oke. 23.Galbe. There islafily found in ourowne Land, browne kinde ofGumme gtowing on Okes, which Mafter Edward Faffellwocdfound in N. mfpive, and fent fome of it tome. 23,Gammi, v There are alto f dg pon Okes,Miffelto,Pollipody, Agaricke,Mushromesoffundey formesand fubftances,asTonchw cc, And the two firlt figures expreffed in the Table,are ofa differing forme from others. 24.Fungd Mannaalfo, ora kinde chereof,which we call in Exglifp ahony dew,found moreplentifully on the Oken leaves Peculiares, then om any other trees: bat becaule theyare not peculier onely to the Okes,but grow upon other trees alfo, and that I have {poken of moft of themin other places of this Worke,I forbeare further to mention them hére,leaving the reft that have notyetbeeneentreated cff,co theirfit places. Ee Their Place and Time are {officiently expreffed in their defcriptions,and fo are their Wames alfo, faving that thé Gall it felfe is called in Greeke «ims, and in Latine Galla,whereof one kinde fit far medicinesis called Omphacits Eccece 2 ; both |