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Show Theatram Botanicum. infomefort have beéne fet with the other Alfa, thede{cription wherepfis thus, From a tough wooddyrootes Tri BR 16, 6. Citi us facie quibusdam Aliffum fraticans, grow up fundry pliant hoary greene {talkes, {preading into branches, fet with divers hoary greene leaves together, contrary to all the other Cytif’s, yet cach leafebyit felfe,fomewhatlike unto them,but thicker and hairy alfo, the flowers are many and yellow,that (tand at the toppes, {pike fathion, comapofed of fonre leaveslike to Stocke Gilloflowers,after which comefeedes in round pods. The Place and Time, - A Cyrifus-like ynlike slant, isthe Cytifus alter minor ot Lobel, which Ejftetenfis callech Trifolium arborefcens, The lalt Baubinus onely hathdefcr ibed in his Prodromns, by the fame title I doe here giveit wast ees prefle, Whetherthis rt fhould be thit Thuja, of Theophrafivslib, 8.c.15 thatis both in ftocke, branches, leaves, and The Cypretle tree, of the Ifleslikewife in the Mediterranean Sea, as Rhodes, and Candy, whereit is fo familiar to the foile, thatit {prin- beland Lugdunenfis call Cytifus Hifpanicus primus, by Dodo. meus Pfeudocytifus prior, and Bauhinus Cytifus minoribys folts Gefnert,and by Bauhinns Cytifus claber nigricans. The fourth pr 1. Cupref/us major five fativuss The Plice andTime, The Names, Cprifus miner of Gefner, which Lugdunerfis calleth Cytifus ~Cuar,56. eae part caufedit to be termed a Ci- The ordinary Cypreflé tree, groweth in fundry of the warme Countries, of the Levant; | aftwards, and in many Thefirkt ofthefe is the firft Cyti/we of Clufiue, which Lo= five major of Camerarins, The toutth Cytifus of (lafius.the hich in gure,wherof I here give you withthis branch :the not it felfe doth muchrefemble the nut of this, both for forme and large thickeneffe of the fcales: This loofeth his leaves in Winter, mer. rifws, called alfo Cyrifus fecundys Hifpanicus by Lebel and Lngdunenfis, andby Dodoneus Pfeudocytifus alter, The c travailes,and faid it was fo called inthe EaftC ountries,the fi- Clufive,and the laft by fome other, the other two in France and Germany, and flower and feede inthe timeof the for- third is the P/endocytifus fen niger Cordi, the Cytifus niger ee en, * fruite,like unto the wild Cipreffle, it were fomewhat worthy tobe feanned, whofe fruiteicis likely, is that Habhel, thar Paladanus brought home with him inhis returne from his Threé of thefe grow im Spaine, the former two found by ramilis tencllis vill fs. The fecond is Clufius his fecond Cy- The Theaterof Plants. T rise 16. gethup every where, of it owne accord, in the Mountaines ida, and Leuce, if the ground beftirred little, and thar \) ENG Wi Ao “ny oN Ve ASR Aig you. The Vertues, ‘Wehavenothing recordedof any particular, any of thefe bafe fhrubbesare indued withall, and although fome may thinke, thar they are of the fame quality with the former, T amnotof that opinion, in regard they are all much more bitter then the former, and {ome intenfively bitter, which canbe no helpe to encreafe milke,in any creature, nor yet to fatten them as the former dos. Cuar, LVI. Cupreffus, The Cypreffe tree. Ome doe rake two forts of Cipreffe trees, the male and the female, the ‘\| then the other, which groweth more upright, not muchdiffering inanyone that fpreadeth more thing elle, whichmayh keth me thinke the di verfity rifeth fromthe foyle ot fome cafualty,and that the male which {prea. oy dethts not a diltingt (pecies, which preferveth the kinde naturally as all other things doe, efpecially “4] (Ccing as Theophra/tus faith, the one doth degenerate into the other, and that borh doc beare nuts and feede alike. I {hall therefore under one m:ke mention of both forts, if they be fo, and fhew you that the Cypreffe groweth to be a great rall upright tree,{preading out the branches focven round about, that it feemeth to be fo formed by Art, being {mall below,not farre above the ground, then fpreading out larger, yer keeping around clofe compaffe and afterwards {piring upto the toppe, leffe and leffe, very well reprefenti ng a Piramis or Spire Reeple,the body and armes are covered with a reddifh barke, the leavesare ever green,but loofing much of the verdurein Winter, which itregaineth the next Spring after, and fomewhat long, flender, and flattifh round, parted very much and fomewhat refembling Savine, ofa refinous fent and ftrong tafte : fome treesare feene in fomeplaces to be more fpreading in their branches, and not abiding fo clofe, efpecially when they grow old,and doe beare their {mall yellow flowers,and their fruite, or nuts, as they here and there amongthe boughs,clovenor opening into divers parts growing are called afterwards, which grow ripe, but clofe and hard while they are young,of aruffet browne colanr, wherein are contained {mall brownifh feede, but not fo fmall as motes in the Sunne,as Matthiolus and others make them tobe : the roote fpreadeth much,but not very deepe : the wood isteddifh, very firme and durable, not fubje& to corruption or wormes, but defending all other things, by the {trong heady fent ithath, from all mothes and wormnes, it yceldeth out of the body of the tree, a kinde of liquid Roffen, like unto that of the Larche and Turpentine trees,of a very quicke and fharpe tafte. 5 2. Cupreffus Americana, The Ciprefie tree of America, Although I doé not take this to bea trueCipreffe tree, yet becanfe it hath obtained that namé byall our travéllers into the hether or Northerne parts of -4merica, where itis found in fundry Countries thereof, ler me joyne it here.untill bya better regard I may place it ina fitter. It growethin fome places tobe a very goodly tall tree, fifty Axty,yea cighty foote high, without any branch, and neere three fathome compaffe at the lower end, and then {preadeth fundry large armes and branches, befet with many winged which areveryfine, {mall, fmooth,plaine,and not (quare,crampled or plaited as the true Ciprefic is, ‘and leaves, fomewhatlonger alfo, feton both fides of the ftalkes, Withoutany certaine order,being not alwaies Oppofitesthe nuts are fomewhat like thofe of the Cipreffe but greater, with thickér,moreé open {cales and greater feede withinthem. The wood fmelleth fomewhat nothing elfe be fowne thereon, and bearethripe fruire from September, almoft all the Winter, The other isas is’ faid, in fendry Countries of the North America, whole {cede was brought by Malter:Trade/cant from Virginiaand fown here, doe {pring very bravely, The Names, Tris called in Greeke xxen} @- and ous 785 cingepov as, ideft.a party parilinm ram ; ¢ Orel, and Cuprefusalfo. The Arabians callit Save, and Ser#, the Italians Cypreffo, the Spaniards El (ypresy the Fr ench,Dutch, and Englifh, Cypres, andthe Germanes Cypre, [fen K The Veriness The Cypreffe cooleth, bindeth, and dryeth without either heate or bitigg fharpenefle, but fo much as mayput the a- cerbity ination, yetitdoth refolve and confume fmmidities,in putride ulcers, che poutherof the leaves witha litle Myrthe and wine,helpeth thofe fluxes that fall on thebladder, and provoketh urine being ftopped, and without Myrthe the fluxes elfo of the belly or ftomacke, bleedings, and {pir2, CupreJas Americatt,an Thuja T heophraftiCupre/] igbi imilatur, The A ‘an, or V tings of bload: the decottion of them, performeth the fame likewile, it helpeth alfo the cough, aad fhortnefle of breath, by taking fafting a {mall dra ,» and if the like draught be take every morning for many daies c toge ge will helpe the rupture, fo a of the fref} SSS iy Cu A P56, , ofblood and hum : ps orrafping of che wood, ta[ provoketh womens d helpeth the bitin of pion, as alfo procuretha good colourto the whole body: the leaves bruifed and laid unto frefh wounds that bleede much, doth flanch the bleeding, and fo confolidateth the wound:being ufed by themfelves, or with fine Barley meale, ithelpeth Saint 42~ thoniesfire, creeping ulcers, and carbuncles and the fores and ulcers of the privy parts in man or Wo- man, and helpeth the inflammati- onsoftheeyes, and applyed wich acerote to the (tomacke doth much comfort and ftrengthen it againf caftings, and other the paffions thereof upon defluxions of fharpe ccatthe 1476 1477, |