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CHAP. CCCXVIL 
Of the Holme Oake. 
ois ~ , The Names. ne 
T is called in Greek, wevG- from zeia, fignifying to Saw, becaufe it is fo hard 
chat it cannot be cut, bac with a Saw.° The greater fort is of fome called in 
Latine, [dex major, Ilex arbor,and [lex glandifera,co diftinguith it from the leffer, 
or Scartes Holuse Oake called Hex coccifera, or coccigera, The e4corne of the 
greater is called in Greek dxvacp,and Acyl/am alfo in Latine,but the Scarier Grain 
of the leffer is called in Greex by Tbeophrafius xinxG- garvixh, Coccos Phornicea, by 
Diofcorides xixx@ fimply, and xixxG- Zaguxd, (eccus Baphica. In Latine by Pliny 
Grauum Coccum, Dui{qnilium, Cu[calinm, Scoletinm, Vermiculum & Hy inne, 
but bythe latter Writers,Coccss infeoria, and Granum infettorinm, by the A- 
vabians, Chermes ot Kermes, as alfoby the Apothecaries, who likewife call it 
Grana tinttorum, in Englith, the Scarlet grain, or Chermes berry. 
The Kindes. s 
Of the Holme Oake there be three farts: 1. The greater prickly Halme Oake. 
2. The great fmooth Holme Oake. 3. The leffer or Scarlet Halme Oake, which 
though it be the leaft ia quantity yet the Searles Graime thereof being fo eminen: 
and w/efwll, 1 thall defcribe chat, | ; : ‘ 
- “Lhe Scarles Holme Oake growetb in the manner of an Hedge tree, of a meane 
bigneffe, baving many faire branches, or boughs fpread abroad, whereon are fet 
Leaves green above, but whitith underneath, ipipe phere the , and at every 
_ €orner-one-fhort prickle, i oases a Jolly, yet fomewhat Ieffle: from 
amongft which there come fometimes, bat not often, fmall Acernes ftanding ia 
little Cups or Husks ; for when it is prained and cut low, it beareth she Searles 
grain growing all along the branches, at the feveral joynts and foot-ftalks of the - 
Leaves, about the bigneffe of a Peafe,of the colour of Holly or Asparagus Berries, 
when they #re ripe, and containing in them a clear Juice of a crumfon colour, as 
deep as any pure frefh bloud which by the heat of the Sun is turned int Small red 
worms, little bigger then fleas,at the firit,but being faffered to grow great confame 
inet fibftance of the Berry-or Grain, creeping away, and leaving the Husk or 
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it rims 
the inner fabftance of the Berryor rain, creeping away. * 
Shel empty, which empry Shels are fometimes ufed, when the Berries themfelves 
are not to be gotten. , 
ieee The Places and Time. — ie sell 
~The frf groweth plentifally in Spaiz and France, the fecondin Spain,and Italy, 
pot for their rarity they have been planted in fome Gardens of this Land the /«/f 
groweth not pet Bil places wropeand Afia: bat alfo in Africa and A- 
merica; asin Spain, Portugal, Isaly, and in that part of France called Provence, 
&c. They all  flotrer in May, and dais fruit is ripe at the end of September; The» 
Scarlet graine eometh forth in the middle of April, and is gathered in (4/ay and 
The Scarlet graine, but efpe 
Fone, for the ule ofthe «Aporbecaries and Dyers, belore ieee Hos 
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is not onely commended, but alfo piven by Ph fits re ive ver} freque t 
| Yy to fach Wemen with Childe, as by infirmity Or other calaaley ate apt seh 
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