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t Cerri minor is r amnios cumfii 



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A branch of the frn 









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bringeth forth oft times 



Greeks ,*,., , Gaza namcth . pg c f^ 



P^orpncke is hollow, moffie LI 

 downe halfe a yard lone 1 ik* 7 1. . §u * 



firft 



The fecond is altogether like tb, 

 failing that this bcareth faalier A 



corncs and the whole tree is alto g et£ 

 Iefle,wherein confifteth the difference 



cluttering 



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common Okejbut the fruit doth not (be 



them 



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_ This Oke groweth ia vntoiled placer 

 it is feldomc times founded that but ia 

 Woods onely : it is for the mod part vn. 

 knownein Italy, as Pliny reporteth. 



^J The Time, 



They bring forth their fruit or Acoraes 

 in the fall of the leafe. 



^T The Names. 



This Oke is called in Greeke a*mr 

 La tine, Cerrm : yet doth Pliny make men* 

 tion both oi*^gilops i and alfo of Ccrm • 

 i)«\.-f is likewife one of the difeafes of 



corne,called in Latine Fejluca : in Englifh,wilde Otes,and far differing from the tree *%//<>/ 



+&gilcf> 



hangeth from the boughes, tlin^lib. i6.cap 



ered with white mo/fie jag 



ing downe, not onely in the barke, but alfo from the boughes, halfe a 



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weet fmell^as we haue laid among ointments 



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Wcfinde nothing written of 

 owne experience. 



among 



Writers 





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Of the CorfyOfy 





U The Defirift, 



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but wish 



full of ch 



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of a middle bigneffe like vnto/&x,or the barren skarlet ukj, 



. 6. .,_ . .. .'r„ .u. ^ ft part greater, ow 



thicke,veryrugg^ 

 .^.vh vnlelte they P e H 



ic corke tree is ot a middle Digneiie like vnto/tf#,or rne l 

 a thicker body, and fewer boughes : the leaues be for the 



ken away in due time do giue place to another barke growing vnderneatb,which when t ^ jn % 

 moued is marueltous red, as though it were painted with fome colour : the Acorne binding: 



a is marueltous red, as though 

 hichisereat.hrift]^ r«.,«i, „ 



anothe 



"C V-T , luc no "ne /iCorne,greacer in one piaccj-nu «« : ■— , kj en efIeoi <*» ,v : 



2 The Corke tree hath narrow leaues groweth likewife to the height wdk^ oc- 

 tree ; the trunke or body whereof is couered with a rough and fcabbed barke or « fa ^j* 

 kiih colour, which likewife cleaueth and cafteth hiscoat when the inner Darw » ^ f tne 



thicke ; the branches are long, tough, and flexible, eafie to be Wowed any flay 



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