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Show Guar.14. 1408 the barke i Tbeatrum Botantcum. &, and isalfo of very Triprid good uf againft thé fretting humours that canfe the bloody awhile, canfeth the water aae ee tll : the faid ah barke being fteeped in water for to become Snicke or mafcilagye, which being applyed with clothes wet therein, will helpe any place e) is i ned with fire: the woodorcoales of che Line tree, while theyare burning hot quenched in vinegar, and a a wards ground with a certaine thing or drugge,called Ocalicansri and drunke, is found by good apes ° e wonderfully goodfor thofe that by fome fall or bruife, or by blowes doe {pit blood : Tragén faith that he thinketh the fowers hereof,whereon Bees doe muchdefiré to feede are good for them, Cuapr. XIV. S) He Birch tree gro veth tobe agoodlycall ftraighttree withus, franght with many boughes and other lender branches,bending downewards, the older ones being covered with a difcoloured rough chapped barke, andthe younger being browner by much, under which there is anotherfine whitethinne rinde or barke, much ufed to write upon,before paper was ufed, the leaves at cheir firlt breaking out are crumpled, andafter ate shes unto Beech leaves, but {maller and greener, and dented edges : it beareth {mall and fhort catkins, fome. wate2 thofe of the Hafell nut tree, whichabide on the branches a long time, untill growing ripe they fall onthe ground and their feedewith them, The Placeand Time, 3 Beto'a. Tic Birchtree. Folio oblongo riyidi, 5 2. Alnu folio incano, The hoary Alder, The hoary Alder is-alefler tree then the common fart; whofebarke is whiter,andleaves likewile are fomewhat longer,gréater, and more poinred chen it, norfo greene nor clammyon'theupperfide,but hoary, by reafon of che {mali haires are tobe feene thereon, ifthey b= well obfér= ved, or elfe not; bucmuctrmore hosry‘underneath, that it feemethto be of anada colonr,the footeftalkes of chen alfobeing hoary in likeymanner, the catkins or aglets hereofare fhorter and not {round as the former, bat fomewhat long untill ichave givenripe fede. mon Alder, bucleffer and lower both in leafe and other The Names. The Pl.ce and Time, Both Placéand Time are in'amanner_ {fufficiently ex- preffedin their defcriptions tobédelighted to growin bat others doethinke thar it fhould befolio Oxye, whereunto it fitly agreeth,in Latine Betula,and with fome Betulafortalfe moilt woods,and in other wateryplaces,andithe lat upon the hils in Anfria, llowring in Aprill or’.44ay,and giving qttia bitumine[catent ; all Authours call it Betula. The Italie ripe feede in September, ans callit Bettola, the French Bouleaw and Bes, theGermanes The Dames, TeiscalledinGreeke by Theophra/fos naisey, but not mentioned by Diofcorides or Galen, in Latine Alaus quod Birchenbaum, the Dutch Berckenboom, and wee in Englifo Birch tree, ab amane alacur, Theophraftus lib.z.c.14, faiththistrecis The Vertues, barren, Péinyfromhim, that it beareth neither fowernot feede, and yét in thé fi.th of the fame Bootie he fheweth among other trees,when their fruite isripe, that the Alder, the Wallnut, Chapter anda kinde of Peares, doe “pen in Autumne,whichdeclareth that hz is contrary to himfelfé;in faying itis barren: Some of the Poets fajned that the three filters of Phaeton, after three moneths mourning for their brothers death, whom Apollo flew NA \ N branchesbeing fiefh are writhed, and ferve for bands unto our honfes, asalforods to correct children at {chcole, or at with thuaderforill guiding the Chariot of the Sunne, were turned into Popler trees,bat Ovid inhis (econd booke of Metamorphofes,and Virgilin Aiglogafexta,inthele Verfes following fheweth (yet doth true alike) that they were Metamorpholed into Alder treess Tum Phaetontiadas mufco circundat amare NY Za <<SWZ Te TILL it ferveth to make hoopes to binde caskes withall ; the young \ :S Wa SS) xAN villufesthe Birch is put unto, as filt to decke up honfesand arbours, both for the frefh greennefie and good fent it cafteth, faggots: of the ycungtwigges are made broomes to fweepe made into piles itis the fureft and ftronge{t to uphold either bridge, or Luilding thereoa, butit 1s guicklyfubjed torotifitbekeptdry. Wnder this Alder in fundryplaces is found firchalike Excreffence, asisthe Oke Grape, Baubinusfaith there isanozher (ore ob{erved whofe leaf: is longer chen the ordinary forr,not differing in any thing things,and hath not the leaves bedewed with fo clammy a moilture, Itis called in Greeke mvs by 77heophraftinlib. 3.6604.yet he giveth it to befolio Carye, and fomé read iiesxacuami rave availeable to breake the {tone in the kidnies or bladder, and is Thewladll alderezee, 3. Alnus Alpina minor, This nfually croweth in woods, as wellon the higher as alfo good to wath fore mouths,a lye made ofthe afhes of Birch tree barke,is cffeQuallfor the fame purpofes. Manyother ci- CHir.ié: Alnus culgatis, & The fmall Mountaine Alder. This fmall Alder, growethineach part likétheto n= lower and moift grounds, every where generally throughoucthe land,the catkins come forth in 4prif, and the leaves fooneafter,the {cede isripe in September, water ofthem, or the water that commeth ontof thetree of itowne accord, being bored with an auger, or deftilled afterwards,any of thefe being drunk for fome time toge ther. is held The Theater of Plants. ther under rhe water or ina watty moift place, for being elfe, Betula, The Birch tree. ‘The Birchis in our dayes applyed to little phyficall ufes, yet the juyce of the leaves while they are young, or the deftilled Trise i6.. and then they are hard and fealy, afictlélong and round like unto an Olive : thetimber iseverlatting, ifitbe ci- home,and wasan enfigiie borne in bundels by the Liéors or Sergeants before the Confullsin the old Romans times, with which, and with axes borne in the like manner, they declared the punifhmentfor leffer, and greater offences, to their people. Cuar. XY. Corticts,atque folo proceras erigit Alnos, Thesfirft is called Alsus and velgaris byall our moderné Writers, but onely(reffentiwt, whocallethit Anjed4. nusashe doth the nigra ac baccifera Avernus.The fecond is called Alnus altera by Clufis,but giveth Lobelhis fi. eure of the ordinary Atausforit, asthenew Gerard dothalfo: bat Banbinus inthis CMéatthiolus giveth the true figure of it,fer forch by himfelfe and there calleth. ic Aleus birfuta,whole figure being left out hete youshalb have in the Appendix. The laftis remembred anely by Bashinus by the fame name is in the title. The Italiang callid An. no,and Onio,the Spaniards Alifo,the French Aulne,the Germanes ErlenbaumandElernbanm, the’ Dutch Elfer;.and we in Exglih Aller,and Alder tree: The Vertues. 4 The leaves and barke of the Alder ttee,are cooling, drying and binding : thefreth leaves laid Uporrumouts diffolveth them, and ftayeth the inflammations: the leaves putunder the bare feete of travellers, chat dre farba. ted with trayelling,are a great refrefhing unto them: the faid leaves while they have tvemornings dew on'them, laid ina chamber troubled withfleas will gather chem thereinte, which being quickely caltour, willridde the chamber of thems: ofthe barke is made blacke dye, for the courfer forcs of things, and withit, ortke greene fruite inflead of galles,is made writing incke, by adding gum and coperastoit, *Alnu, The Aldertree. Cuar. XVI. SEVF this Alder, ‘I have to fhew you twoorthree varieties moré thén others have expreffed, which aré thefe following 1, Alnus vulgarn. The ufaall Alder tree, Peitikictis of The ordinary Aldertree groweth to areafonable height, and fpreadeth much jfirlikethe p ae co a brownith barke,and the wood underit’ more red then Elme or Yew : the boughes and root “t whereof are more brittle then any other woodthat groweth in or necre water : the leaves arc round almoft, 3 ofribs,rugged,thicke and clammy, by reafon ofa {ticking dew that continually lyeth upon them, yet fhining and dented about the edges,fomewhatlike unto the leaves of the Hafell tree, tut ofadarkcr greene colour + it beareth fhort browneaglets like the Beech or Bitch, whichfall not away befote the feede is ripe within sth Populus. The Poplartree. He Poplar tree hath beeneaunciently accounted, but of twoforts,blacke and white, but by Plug di{tributed into three forrg;the White, the blacke, and the Libian or Afpen tree, unto thefe I mut adde two Other out of Lobe/, which areas followeth, é : : 1. Populas alba, The white Poplartree, The whize Polar tree groweth great and reafonable high,covered witha thicke fmooth barké,and white,efpécially thebranches,having large leaves cut into feverall divifions,almolt like unto a Vine leafe, bur ie xa of |