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and full of chaps, which being cut in funder is red within, but the bark amonglt 
the boughs is fmooth, flippery; andfomewliat white wichout:the branches 
erow one above another in acomely Order,having divers {mal yellow knobs or 
Bunches (er arfeveralldiftances,trom whence arile marty fmall leaves) rowing 
iiclutters thick together like rafsells, which fall’ away av the approach of Win- 
ter, and gain frefhrevery {pring;which is peculiar only tothis; Tree: ofall the 
Rofen bearing Trees. The bloffoms are very’ beautiful and ‘delectable, being 
ofan excelient fine Crimfon Colonr, and very {weet,which-afterwards turn in- 
£0 {mail {oft Cones, like unto Cypreffe Nuts: while they areclofe;buolonger 
then they;being made up of a multitude‘of thin Scalestike'léaves,under which 
ly “fmhall feeds having athin filme growing on them very liketo the wings <of 
Bees or Wa'lps: the fubltance’of the wood is very hard, of colour fémeéwhar 
réd; e(pecially that which ‘isin the middieyand very: profitable! for works -of 
Yong continuance. « Yerthat reportcthat the wood’ of the Larch Tree cannot 
be fec on fire is: fale; it béing preferred before all other wood, forall Satithes 
work, and for Miners co:melt the Ore of’ Mettal, becaufeir holdech: fire longelt 
and {tronge(t, by reafon of the’ Rofen charisin it.’ The*Agarick whichrow= 
eth on this Tree, is a kind’ of Mufhrome or !Excrefcence; not fuch: asisupon 
light, andin the firtt ratte fweetjhard< mp eciwhich is heavy, 
blackifh, containing in iclirele pines punted ‘pernicious: and 
deadly. The iigeasworen that procee ree; is very like in co- 
gurand’tbitance to the whiter honey, as that of Athens or Spain, which: not- 
With{tanding iffueth nor forth -ofic felf; buc runneciiour of the Stick ofthe 
Tree when it hath been bored to the very heart with a great and long Angur or 
Wimbie. Iciscommonly called Venice Turpentine; rhough the true Tur- 
pentine iffue fromthe tree Terebinthas, The figureofthis Larch Tree, with the 
x pee growing upon ic, you may fee lively reprelented either in-Gerrard-or 
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~The Larch Tree eroweth in many woods about Tre#t, and Britiz: in Sealy, 
“anid neer the river Benac#s, and Padus, and in Galatiaa Province of Afia,as 
Diofcor ides and Galex.do record, and in Agaria a coutitrey of Sarmatia,from 
whence the Agarick took the name ; in Silefia'alioy Moravia, Lafatia s-As the 
A garick is gathered in mott of thefe places, fo is the Turpentine, ‘but efpecial- 
ly from the woods about:Tren 
bout: Treat, Of allthe Conertees this only is foundwith 
out Jeaves inche Winter 3 imthe Spring;crow ‘frefh ‘Leaves’ out of the:fame 
knobs from: which se former did fall. “ The Cones ate to be-vathered before 
winter fo {oon as the:leaves are gone ;-for,afcer the! feales are loofe@and open- 
ed, andthe feeds drop away, The Roten: or Turpetttine isto bevarhered ia 
the horteit part of the Summer; and the: Agarick towardsthe later end of 
the year, burin November and December efpéciallye 8 10. Siw batter 
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