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Show ~Guap.to. »| heatrum Botanicum. Tripei6 ana Agelechus as Athenaus faith,calledAZota and Amota: Pliny maketh dint forts hereof, a by the nameshe giveth them fhouldfeeme,as Tarentina, Salariana, Meterana, Coreliana, Ba aerits & e. WwW 7- the climate and foyle,make this diverfity as it is in our dayes that the Frenchand Spenife great nats,that —ofa “e ter relifh are called CMarrons,whichhath canfed CAatthiolus, Ruellins and others,to fer ity — e ofit, one to be wilde, and another tame, becaufe one is greater then another, The firft is eeeaty - is ac = ts Caftanea, andthe fruite Nax Caffarea. Thefecond is alfo called Castanea equina, by all Authours that have et of it, not being knowneas itis thought, to any of the auncient Writers, unlefle a Cs alpinus think, it may be Myrobatanus heliotropi of Pliny lib. qaieiai.; The Turkes call te or A raeesps w - be fionifie as the much as Caftaneafolia aqsina, The third is called Caftanea humilis by Lugdunenfis, and lohannes deChout in his Hifforia montis Pilati, The fourth isremembred onely by Clufws, whohad it from acer Ortelius, who received it from Benediftus Arias Aontanus, brought outof the Welt Indies, The laft Monare ws called Fraétus Cholugogus, and Lugdwnenfis from him, but (a/ter Durantes, Caftanea purgatrix, and Bauhinws from him, I he call it Sadianalach Caftaland Stebulot, the ItaliansCaftague, the Sree. Baas, and fo doethe Arabians French, as isbefore faid,and Caftaignes alfo, the Germenes Keftex,and the Dutch CaStanichoem, The Vertues, ; Our Chefnuts are mach ofthe property of Acornes deing hot and dry in the firlt degree, with a ae Wine dinefleinthem, whichis perceived by thofe that are put into the fire to rolt,by skipping thercout fuddenly with a great ctacke ot noife,but will not doe fo if it be alittle flit by thrufting the point ofa knife into them, whereby the heate mayexpell the windinefle, Ofall the kinds of Acornes faith Ga/en the Chefnuts are the belt, and doe onelyof all wild fruites yeeld unto the body commendable nourifhment, yetnot to be overmuch fee in that as he faith theybreede thicke blood, and being windy procure headache, are hard of digeftion, and bin e the nody by an aftringent quality, whereof they pertake nota little. The inner skinne that covereththe white nutis foaftringent, thar if the decoction thereof in wine or water,or the pouther thereofbe rakenin {ome convenient drink it will foone {tay any {uper-purgation, orany flux of blood in man or woman. Dodanens faith that ifthe meale of Chefauts be made into an Ele@uary with hony, itis very profitablé for thofe are troubled with > with {pitting of blood. In manyplaces where there are grcat {tore growing, they fatten up their eansr the nuts as we doe in Exg/and with Acornes,and Beech-maft. The Horfe Chefnuts are given in the Eaft ome try,and fo through all Z#rkie,unto Horfes to cure them of the cough, fhortneffe of winde and fuch other difeafess the low or dwarfe Chefnnts by reafon of the unfavoury tafte,are not ufed by any : and the Chefhut of Pers,is avs recorded of what quality it ismore then that C/ufius as is before faid,faith the tafte is like an Almondor an ordi« nary Chefnut. The lalt fort Monardus {aith purgeth gently, and choller efpecially, eaten when itis freth, or bruifedand drunke in Wine,but being dryed thepouther is given in broth, and if it be rofted it purgeth the leffes but thisis to be obferved faithhe, tharthe thinne skinne isto be taken away howfoever youtakeit, leaft it pros TrrBE16, Lhe Theater ofPlants. 1483 Fagus. The Beech cree, deverall kindes, andnottobefo confounded together, The Italians callit Faggio, the Spaniards Haia,the Freach ¥an Fouftean, and Heftre, yet Bellonivs inthe s2. Chapter of his firt Booke of Obfervations doth diftinguith Heftre from Fonftean, faying that the Greekes Offnya is The Frenches Haiftre & their Oxyathe Frenches Fouftean bothofthem growing wilde in the woods, upon the mountainesor hils of Sidero cap/ain «Macedonia, the Germanes callit Buchbaum, the Dutch Buickenboomand we in Englifo Beeche. The Vertues. Theleaves ofthe Beeche tree are cooling and binding and are therefore applyed unto hot {wellings to difcufle them: the nuts are hotand moift in the firlt degree, and thereby nourifh much all creatures that feed thereon. Pe. tra Crefcentins writeth, that the afhes of the wood is good tomakeglafle, Zragus faith that he hath prooved by good andoften experience,that the waterthat is found inthe hollow paces of decaying Beeches will cure both man and beaft of any feurfe or{cabbe,or running tetters, | RN UZ:Ayye Yy = RZ SN Uy LZ ito ak | LL Uf iB) ie ES : = ifthey be wathed therewith: Rvellivs reportech thatifa Viper or Adder be ftrucken witha tod of the Beechtree, orif itbe but onely put untoit, ithath {uch power as to {tay the Viperfrom getting away while it ts by it: the barke of the Beech tree is fo flexible, that many Country people doe donbleit, with afticke thruit through both fidesatthetoppe, to carry Cherries, Strawberries, and many other {uch like things therein, which Plixy alfo nox teth wasufed in his time. S : cure vomittings, laskes,and other daungerous fymptomes, Cray Ciarit, the nameof(arpinus + but the truth is that ¢n3¢,0&0u and aria are three {evérall trees, and Carpinws the fourth, of TE —<— ae Ss Se ; X Cuap. XI. + Fagus, The Beechtree, Ulmus The Elme: Ecaufe this tree bearéth fruite fomewhat like unto a Cheinut, having beéne reckoned alfo a kinde of Acorne bearing tree, I thoughtit fittelt to place it next after the Chefnut, both Recantet is found growing in woods among Okes,and that the fruite ferveth as Acorne matt to fattenup {wine, me ophraftus maketh two forts,montana and campeffris, the former white, the other blacke, but wee can 2S HeophraftusColumella,and maity alfo of our moderne Authours, have mention onély oftwoforts Bsc ofElmes, P /iny hath madefoure forts,which notwith{tanding may be made reducedinto the former two: we sg) Have obferved in our Country threg forts, and Mafter Goodier afourth, befides another verylike unta them, but yet notably differing, which fhall therefore bee fet downe in the Chapter following byie finde no fuch diverfity in thofe that grow withus. Our Beechtherefore groweth to bea great and a tall nt {preading the boughes and branches on every fide, whereby it maketh a goodly large fhadow, unleffe it be fhre below to makeit {pring up higher, covered witha {mooth white barke, whereonate placed many broad Co leave ialmoft round yerpointed ar the end andalittle finely dented about the edges, ofa fad greene colour, which uftially turne yellow before theyfallaway, and whereonare often found certaine {mall round hollow berries pointed atoneend, greene atthe firft andred afterwards, wherein are found {mall wormes: The blowings or catkins are {mall and yellow, like thofe of the Birch tree, but leffe.and quickely falling away : The fruite tained ina rough huske fomewhat like the Chefnnt,but not prickly fharpeatall, which being ripe openeth isit peel fells into three parts,and fheweth a : {mall three {{quare nut, covered with a{mooth foftskin, browner then the Chef1 : aan ! et Gath ni aoe came : ateotes grow grow not deepe,not von aoe noe aee et P yet tpread farre ; the timber is {mooth an Sieiruitn profital me, y Ei ‘ aa = This groweth through moft Woods in Exgland,amone the Okes and other treés, and is planted alfo in Parkes. Forres, and Chafes, ‘to feede their Deere he in eth pices to fatten Swine, whofe fe will bee fofter then theirs that are fatted with Acornes: it bloomethin the end of April! or beginning of AZay for the moft part, and the fruiteit ripe in the end of September, Thi Nas i ine sey gis : seo it Sci Z : a EO inds Sciffilu, itis NEn ak SoiTinkieta nhdee!thee atiol ot us, whofeill fample Tragus,Fuchpius Ruellins,Matthiolus Dodenews, and almott all other Writers thereof fincé his time havefollowedasI {aid before in the Ghapter of Okes, whofe difference many yet have acknowledged , but none before Dalechampius have plainely detected : another errour alfo hath {pread among many, intaking sets or aceha,Offrys or Offrya of the Greekes, whereof Pliny {peaketh /id. 1 3.c.21..to be this Oxya but Pliny fhewcth plainely in the defcription of otrys that the fruite or fede islike unto Barley,which they would correét,and make itto be like the Chefnut, thus one errour begetteth another: but O/frys or Offrya, as fhallbe fhewed here- after israther a kinde of Elme, yet unproperly hecalleth it Carpinms, when asthe Carpinws of the ancients is kinde ofMaple,as fhall be fhewed,and Dodoncus to mend the matter placeth the Offrys amongthe eS 1. Vinsus vilgarin Our common Elmé. , That Elme whichis moft frequentand belt knowne in generall throughoit t the Land, gtoweth more upright; and not fo much fpreading as the relt, to bee a very great tree, with abody of a very large fife covered witha thicke roughbarke, chaptor crackt in many places, bat that onthe branches is {moother, che bloffomes thar AP Fir peare before the leaves come forth are like {mall taffells of red threds, which falling away there come upin their reid ftead, broad,flat, whitith skinnes, which are the {cede being mtich unlike to the feede of the white Garden floribuy, fist which doe fall away by degrees, fome quickely, andnot {ome holding on a good while after the leaves are ully come forth,the leaves are ofa fad greene colour, btoad,fomewhat round and pointed at the the end 8, foug A § about ; a and crumpled for> the moft part,and dented P the edges, onefide of the leafe next tothe falke beinglong er then the other, and more eaten by all forts of cattle then anyof the reft, having certaine {mall bladders orblifters thereon, which containe {mall wormes inthem? the wood or a var : agih ir kattimberher 1 eof is of a darke reddith0 yellow colour,‘3 en Oke tough, tit for many ules, where it may be either continually wetordry, butnotenduring both fo long ‘ ‘ ‘ 2, Vinus latiore folio, Broad leafed Elme or witch Hatell; ue one _ aai li as great ?Gee : fe former, at er ese more ae wards, net growing fo upright as the fo! er;the Dioomi ngsand feed hereof is like the former inal thines ro the —- hercofare much larger then ir, but crumpl ed and rough or hard, andlike unto the exes forts a e oo 4 ae ae EBS caine a called W i. hafell, and hath fachlike bladdets thereon as the ae ers Go@ortumber of this is mot fo tough asthe former, but is more fhort and will bee more eafily :: ¢ 3+ Vimusfolio glabro, Smooth leafed The Witch Elme groweth moreliketo the laft then the firlt, Elme or Witch Elme. ming and feede alfois like though leffe: but the leaves hereof inthe bending boughes and gfeat bady,ehe bloc? are nothing fo large as the laft, but neereft in biga neffe untothe firtt yernot rough or crumpled,but fmooth and plaine and without anyblifters on them,as the former two have, the timber hereof is as {trong and as tough as the firlt or rather more, and isaccounred of worked men the ftronger and more ferviceable kinde, Dddddds AE y 4.Uhasnt |