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Show =e : = T beatram Botanicum. "1538Cuar.g5: Tris The Vertues. Trise6, The Theater ofPlants. Crar.g6, 1539 re Afprtinzm,oy with Litharge, and skinneth themafter, and mixed with Coperas, it flayeth the fretting or cree. or well excercifed therein, for it is to be difcerned bur by fome efpetiall notes, Jetifeth upas high and groweth asgreatasthe Firre, fteeple fafhion, with a thickereddith afhcoloured barke, rough and tough like leather, ‘and fpreadeth the branchesa croffe asthat doth, but bending downe, notftanding upright as the Firre doth: The taken in water or mede, thatishonyed water, are good for the heate of the Liver ; iftthcy be boyled in vinegar, and gargled warme in the mouth, it helpeth the paines in the teethand gummes, the like doththe thivers round,and notflat as the Firre leaves are, fofteralfoandnot hard, pointed at theends like it: the cones come forth atthe ends of the branches, after the catkins are fallen, which are fomewhatreddifhar the firft {pringing forth, and being full growne are flender, about feyen or eight inches long,bending downewards, abiditis fo long The barke of the Pinetree is binding and drying ,{taying the laské and provoking urine: jt helpeth rhe frettings and gallings of theskin, ulcers alfo that poffefle the upper parts, and burnings wichfire, taken wich Ceratum Ping ofulcers, the fumes thereof taken underneath,caufetha delivery of the birth, and expelleth the fecondine : the leaves are cooling and afiwage inflammations, and keepe ulcers from being inflamed, a dramme of them of the Torchpine boyled in vinegar and gargled. The kernells of the Apples are wholefome,and much nontifhing while theyare frefh, and althoughthey be fomewhathard of digeftion, yerthey doc not offend, efpeciallyif theybe fleeped three or foure houres in warme water,before the taking,to foake ont their tharpenefle and oylj. nefle; thofe that are of hot confiitutions may take them with Sugar, bat thofe thacare cold with hony, and fo they doe amend the putrefying humours in the ftomacke and bowels, and {lir up bodily luft and encreafe {perme, if they be made intoanclectuary witha litcle pouther of penidy pennits, and fome {weete Wine, allo they much helpe an hoa fe chroate, wheefings and fhortneffe of breath, and when the voyceisloft, and expetorate flegme, and are goodfor an old cough, and theulcers of the lungs:theyalfo lenifie the uritory paflages beingfret ted withtheftone, and caufe them to be eafily avoyded: they helpe alfo to ripen inward Impoftumes, andare fingular good for macilent bodies, to hearten them and make them grow fat, being often taken they helpe the palfie, fhaking, and numnefie of the members, Both Comfitmakers, and Cookes know howto make daint Quec chofes tor their delight that will have them, There isa water deftilled from the greene cones or a i that is very effectuall to take awaythe wrincklesin the face, to abate the over {welling breafts of Maides fy bathing them with wet cloathes in the water laid on them, and to reftore {uch as are ravifht into better termes. He Pit. htree hathformerly beene comprehended under one kinde, yet Pliny feémeth to reckon afae tivaand afylveftrés, the ative tobe Sapinus, and the /ylveffris Picea : but wein thefe times knew bur one forcunti:l Cl«fins hath added a dwarfe fort thereunto, 1. Picea vulgaris, The ordinaryPitchtree, The Pitchtree is fo like unto the Firre tree that it oftentimes decciveth them that are not skilfall Picea, The,Pitch tree. 3, Picea pumila The dwaste Pircherce, aapDe% yin of an Hafell nut, compofed offcales laid clofe one upon another, whofeend isa prickly leafey which opening whenic is ripe fheweth it to be like hollow yvoyd orempty places within, and from the heads thar areat the endé of the branches, fhoote forth oftentimes branches with {undry fhort and prickely leaves : whether icbore cithet flowers or fruite, Clafims faith he knew not, for he {aw none on any thathe found. The Place'and 7 sme, Thefirt groweth ufually inall Countries with the Firre trees, but feldome neerethe Sea: the other Clafins foundin his fearch for fimples in Germany, but nameth no place: The Pitch tree bloffomesfall awayin Adarch Ttis calledin Greeke s/s, and in Latine Picea: becaufe the pitch is made of this tree yet,as all Authoiirs dos agree, the Pinetree is moft ufually taken tor chat purpofe, andofitis made both the belt andthe moft fore; Bellonius as Closfius thinketh was much deccivedin the Pitch tree,taking the wilde Pine cree for it, in his fecond Booke and third Chapter, where C/ufiw noteth it, giveth it the figure of his Picch tree, whichis the wilde Pine tree ashe faith, but Bedonius in his firlt Booke and 44, Chapter, doththere give the fictire of the Sapinws, which hefaith fome French mencall ds Sapin, and {ome de da Suiffe, which as Lugdunenfis faith, isthe name by which they callthe Pirchtree, fotharit feemeth probable that C/afivs hath herein miftaken Bellonius, yet hefaith in the faid {econd Booke and third Chapter,that the Inhabicants doe take Ted, Torches from this tree, and that they makepitch, and Cedréa,Tarre from it alfo, whichis moftufually made of the wilde pine tree, but if pitch were not made ofthis tree,it had the nameof pitch tree givenitin vaine s moze Pitzocampe, are taken to be called Eruce prinorum, whenias they onely grow onthis tree, The Arabians callit Are, but Tragus faith, they call the Pine treeby that name alfo, the Ztalians Pezxo, the Spaniards Pino wegro, the French Peffe and Soiffe, the Germanes have no ether diftiné& name then Thannenbanmto callitby, by which alfo they call che Fitre treeone< ly they callit Schwartz oder ret Thannenbaum, which Tragus calleth Abies rubra, and thinketh it to be Piceds the Dutch Peckboom, and wePitchtree. Theproperties hereofare wholly attributed tobe the fame with the Pine t ce, asis before faid; both forthe Ld a WN S Ns Slo sy iy Sih mer, befec with fhorter and paler greene leavesall about them, this bearethcertaine {mall heads, of the bigneffe ZAIN barke and the leaves, bur this not having any kernels, thatarc fit cither to be eaten or ufed in phy ficke, we canfay nothing of them. CraetacoS Cy i aw" WAY WANS Ss Whi. ae t or Turpintine, by boring the tree as others arc,and Pitch allo,as fromthe Pine, 2. Picea pumila... Thedwarfe Pitchtree. This tree never rifeth high, but alwayesabideth low, {preading the branches in manner of 4 croffeas the fore The Vertues, f : ZBes a Sas D Wte N thereofof it owne accord,very like unto Olibannm, that many may-be deceived with it » a8 alfo-a liquid Roflin e = cepted in workes then the Firre, from thistrecis gathered {mall peeces of white hard dry Roffin, diftilling our The Names, Picea. The Pitchtree, NAN es SWANN SWS on the trees, untill the {calesopening, the feed within them which is fmallandblackith, falleth out upon the ground, the woodis {moother,fofter,leffe knotcy,and with fairer and flraighter graines, and thereby more ac- and Apri//,when the cones begin to come forth, whichareripebefore Winter, but abide on as is faid, ifthey benot gathered, untill it fhed all the feede, and chat the windes and the weather have rotted and blowne downe theftalkes of the withered. Cwar. CXY. a E SEA AE Icaves alfo are thicke fet on all fides of the branches, and not onely ontwo asthe tirre : being thicke and fhort, Abies, The Firte tree, fo GB Lthough Bellonius and Dedonews fromhim, doe follow Theopbraftus and make two forts of Firres, a J\e male and a female, yet unleffe the Pitch rree may be accounted his male, I know not how it may be Sfp granted in our dayes: which if it be as C/ufus and others feeme royecld unto, I marveile chen what wee Wyant A eT RATS wimaas tree his zis fhallbe. I have therefore but one fortof Firre to fhew you, although I know fome by iy Yh, Ly WA the fmoothneffe and colour of feverall forts ofthe wood,might argue themof differing forts, yet I hold that not fofficient to make a feverall {ecies, no more thenis feene in our Oake, which growing in fomeplaces willbe {moother or rougher,tougheralfo or more brirtle, of a paler or yellower colour, and with moreorleffe veines therein then in others, which commethto paffe by the moift or dry, ftiffe or fandy grounds wherein they grow. It groweth taller then any other, excep: the great Cedar, growing {traight up toagreatheight, without either branchor knot, and covered witha rough hardbrittle gray barke, thegreater armes {tand alwayes foure together, one oppofite unto another in forme of acroffe, and grow upright, thefide branches on the younger ftanding but by couples: this orderit holdeth in all up tothe toppe whichis {malleft, having rifcn like a Pyramis by degrees: theleaves that grow on theelder branches, ftand without order, and are harder yet bluntly pointed, then thofe on the younger, which ftand but ontwo fides, making the branches feeme flat, and very thicke fet one unto another, like che teeth of acombe , and thefe of the younger growth areflatter then of the elder, oftentimes forked at the ends, ofa pale frefh greene on the upper fide, and grayifh underneath, and {malléft co. wardsthe ends: the agglets or catkins that this beareth, are {mall and of a whitith yellowgreene, enduring a whole yeare on thetrees,after they have fhewedtheir flowers: the cones or Apples thereof, are greater then thofe of the Pitchtree, and with broader{cales,blunt or in fome double pointed, on theinfide of every feale al moft. lyeth a {mall (cede, joynedto a thinneskinnelike @ wing, and abide greene untill Winter, and then grow ripe |