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Show 1532 Cuaron, —- Tr . Theatram Botanicum. T wipe 16, Tuine16. TheTbeaterof Plants, =e, HA P93. inthe naturall places, or where it groweth, bothbarkeand fruite might be applyed for {uchlike difeafes as the gummeis Cedrelanm ot Cedreolewns is the firlt liquid {ubftance that commethout of the ftickes, while they are in the burning (fuch as we call tarre, thatis, the liquour of the Pine and ‘itch tree ftickes when they burne ) before the hard , Pitch commeth forth, with which as well as withthe Cedriz, in formertimes che Egiptiaes embalmed the bo- ptitunto, whichisveryallringent, ferving to reftraine the fluxe of blood or humours, from any parts both inman and woman, aslaskes,the men{trues whites,and the gonorrhea: it is alfo faid to helpe the frangur and {toppings of the urine, tofaften loofe teeth, and is veryavaileable for the gummes are {pongy or with fot fieth : itis goodalfo to {tay the watering of the eyes, and tohelpethofe places that are burnt withfire: The Goldfmiths and Glafiers ufe it muchin their workes, the one for an enamell, andtofeta foile under their preci. ous ftones,for their greater Infter; andthe other byfire toftrike a crimfoncolour into glaffe, for Windowes or the like. Idoenotknowthat Painters can bring it tobea fit colour to be ufed in their workes. Cuap. XCII, Cedrus magna Conifera Liban. ea Herel of the Arbores refiniffere, thofe trees that beare Roffins are to follow, beare Cones,being the great Cedar, the Pine cree,and all the forts thereof bothwhich are thefe th tame and wild sn Pitch tree, the Firretree, the Larch tree,the Cypreffe, and the Arbor vite, or tree of life sa a B firft of the great Cedar, This great Cedar groweth ap witha great thicke uptight body tallonte any other tree whatfoever ftored with branches on all fides, but fo ordered that the lower areas {pread largc{t, and {till upward they grow{maller up to the toppe, reprefentiug the forme of a Pyramid pape gat loafe,to them that viewit a farre of; the greaterand loweft branches with the body are fomewhat rue ved and full ofchappes, but chat of the upper branches is very Cedrus = There isno part ofthis tree put to any Phyficall ufe, but the Cedria, or Roffin that comméth out of it whichis hot in the fourth degree,and preferveth the dead bodies from rotting, and therefore was called the life of the dead,and the death ofcheliving, becaufe if it be laid on garmentsor skins, it willburneand confume th:m: yea andtothe tender fleh of the living, it will workelikeacauftiche: yetis it effeCtuall to cleare the fight from filmes or skinnes thatare growne over it, and taketh away the {carres of wounds and fores, and mixed witha little vinegar and dropped into the eares, ic killech the worm and withthe decottion of Hyffope, being put in taketh away thenoyfe and humming inthem, if alittleofitbe putintoan hollowroothit eafeth the paines The great Cedar of Libanus, {mooth,and ofan afh colour, and being rubbed away with ones nailes, appeareih greene underneath, and reddifh under that: the branches fore fay grow allupright, but others dies of the dead, to caufe them to abide for ever uncorrupted : but many Writers confound thefe and the Pisch ofthe Cedar together, that iffueth out in the burning after the firft, calling them (edria,when as shey are divers. The Arabians call the tree Serbin, (andthe Roffin or Tarte Kitran Alkitran;and Ketran ) the Italians Codro, the Spaniards Cedro,the French Cedrosand we Cedar, The Vertues, ag tie magna Conea Libani, erat of Libanus. a and breaketh the cooth, ifitbe mixed witha little vinegar, and they wathed therewith ic will doe thelike : it helpeth the difeafe of the throate called the Quinfie, and killeth both nitsand lice: it refifteth the poyfon ofthe Sea Hare taken in fodden Wine, and ifit be laid with {alt on the biting of the venemous ferpent called (erafwicwill helpe it: it helpeth the leprofie alfo, ifi¢be either annointedor takeni wardly, and purgeththe ulcers ofthe lungs, and healeth them ifa {mall quantity thereof be taken : it alfo helpeth the itch and feabs inman orbeatt, ic killeth the living childe in the mothers body,and expelleth the dead,and taketh awayail hope of con- ception ifthe privy parts be touched therewith Z Larix, The Larchtree, S eafie to be broken, not tobe bended and fo placed about the body, one above another that an eafie afcent upto 1¢ toppe,asit were by fleps: theleaves grow many together, out ofa knot, which are {mall long and narrow, like uato thofe of the Larch tree,fomewhathard, but not fharpe attheend a3 they are, and fo fer, the longeft being inthe middle, andthelefleronthe fides, that they reprefent the forme of a Painters penfell, abiding alwayes greene onthe trees, being fomewhat {weeteinfent,a little fowre, bitter an 1 aftringent in tafte: it beareth Cones that growupright He Larchtre€ groweth oftentimesas high as either the Pine or Firte tree, but moft ufually lower; co § vered witha very thicke barke, rugged and full ofchappes,and redd:fh on the infide, the branches grow S one above another,ina comelyorder, havirigdivers imall ysllow 1obs or bunches fet at feverall * diftances, from whence doe yearely fhoote forth many {mall thicke long and nattow,foft and fi greencieaves, asit were in atuftrogethet,likethe former. Cedar, but fhorter, imaller and blunter po the leaves of either Pine or Firrerree, which doe notabideany Winter as they doe, fall away as other trees that fhedtheir leaves,and gaine fre(h every Spring ( whichis peculicr to this alone, among all the other kindés of trees ) the bloffomes are very beautifullanddele@able, being cf an excellent fine crimfon like asthe Firre doth,no hanging downe as others doe, flen- colour, and very {weete,which afterwards turne into fmail foft cones, liké unto Cy preffe nuts while they are harder then thofe of the Firre, fomewhat yellowith and clofe,but longer thenthey ; made of many fine and thin fmall{cales, one lying upon another, ftanding on a fhort ftalke, having {mail feede on the infide of every {cale,- formed like a {mall Bird, with two wings, and a {mall {weetekernell within themlike the Pine kernell: the woodis veryfirme,hard, and clofe; long in growng and longlalting, and maketh the belt coales for all Smiths worke, and for Mine melt the Ore good fent: outof this tree chere commeth two fort of Roffin called Cedria, the one thinnelike unto that ofthe Firretree, which commeth forth bypiercing the tree at the fundry knots while they bz young andnot covered with a rugged barke, and putting thereto an horne, ont of which ic muftrujne; the other Roffin fowethforth of it owne accord, growing “\ of met ar isthe feede, as bigge as Grape kernels, fomewhat {weete in talte, bedewed withan oylie fubftance, that is ofa Ap) » for itrequireth one whole yeare to ripen, within DN Sots derer then thofe of the Pitch tree, and thicker, greater, and which bodies, ifitbe chawed chat it will hardlybe pulled away againe, and being {melicd untogiveth a very {weete fent; the Woodis ongelt and greater boughes hereof, a kinde of hard Isgrowethnotinall Greece, for neither Diofcorides The Place and Time. This Cedar groweth on fandry mountaines in Syria, and the parts neére thereunto , and the coldeft parts of pe ae a ee few e hae: Taurus and Libanus, andnotin many places elfethat have beene oblerved new sity , the fectstimeis baiberh declared inthe deicription enkt aecie ption t to bea whole ol yearein i perfectin i g the fruice, it and as Pliny i faith, i . aid Ci: Mfis of this Booke;whichis of purging Plants, The PL nd Teme, ruption, : | anddry Mafbrome, called Agaricke, whereof Ihave ipeken with the Turpintine tree, in the fecond durable above all other,and not in many ages yeelding to cor= ane abo and ftrongeft, alt! 16,¢,10. th burneth nr I tt mor maketh any coales, wh i ¢ t a Roffinors tree fhould not barne any may liquid Roffin being bored, very we call Vesice Turpintine: rhere isal{o found upon the hard of it felfethereon, which will{ticke fo fa tothe teeth : ; CuaPr. XCIII. {iraight out, and as it were crofle wife, {tro g; but brittle, and round at the end, made of many {cales, with a fhortfoote{talketoit, batfofirmelyfet to the branch, that without reaking away fome ofthe wood of the branch, it cannot be ‘ yetths fcales opening of themfeives, will fall ’, leaving the ftalke bare thar went throughthe middle n, bucchis it will not doe untill the next yeare afterit ; eS The Names: , This Cedar iscalled in Greeke v4.25 {not knowne to Dio(corides,Galen or Pliny, as their workesteftifie, for theirs is the Oxycedrus, that bearethberries like to Iuniper,or the Mirtle ) and tatpshany quafi Cedrabies, be canfe it gtoweth high,like the F itre,Theophraftus callethit%4spG- gaivexd Cedrus Phewicea, which Gazaunfitlytranflateth Pxnica, and inthe Geoponickes Dendrolibanm, Cedria you have heard before what xhout of the tree,whenit is bored or peirced, asin the Firre and othertree itis, namely Roffin that flows ¢ butGedrinm, which fomecall Cedrelauns nor Theop moft plen “6, hi n thereof, but 5 » and inall that Germang, and Italy, and manyother places of Germany, it faooteth forth as is faid young leaves every Spring, with the bloffomes preféntly afth the fruite before Wintet. The Names, It is called in Grecke»#e5, and the Turpintine prvn aaerxivng in Latine alfo Larix, and the I liquid Roffin Refina Laricea, or Larigna, or Terebinthina Venetia, Plisy faulted manytimes in miftaking the 7s Picea of Theophraftus for this, applying thofethings to the La- Pppppp |