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Of the Hiaoric of Ph^" 



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 The Pitch tree. 



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The dwatfe Pitch tiee; 



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The Pitch treegroweth in Greece, Italy, France, Germany, and all the cold Regions euenvnee 

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f The Time. 



The fruit of the Pitch tree is ripe in the end of September. 



5f The Names. 



The Grecians call this Cone tree v™ ■ the Latines, ?/#*, and not Pinus • for P/'w/, or the Pine 

 tree,is the Grecians «&* as fliall be declared : that Mw is named in Latine Picea, Scrihnm Lat^hs 



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agree Jib. i tf.rap. i o. where hee tranflating Theophraftus his words concernir o _ 

 tranflateP/ty/^^although for Pence he hath written Larix, as fhall be declared. Pit*] 

 thus, Z,*?/* vftisradicibus nonrefullulat : and the Larch tree doth not fpringvp againe w 

 roots are burnt : the Pitch tree fpringcth vp again,as it hapned in Lcsbos,when the wood 

 us was fet on fire. Morcouer,the wormes Pity$camf>£ arc fcarce found in any tree but onely in_ 

 Pitch tree,as BcUomus tcft ifieth. So that they arc not raflily called Pitpcamftpr the vvormes ^ 

 Pitch tree- although mod of the Tranflators name them Pinortmeruc&px the Wormes 



Pity 



t fluster*"*' .becaufe Wormes 



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V larcrvvnrers ao rorrniscauieiuppoietnauuicni^i "^ *-/- #tCfllW^ 



*/?«/, iw> a> or the wilde Pine tree. This Picea is named in high-Dutch.^cWfl? «j 



»0t Uanncbaum and oftentimes alfojojetltyolt? 



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The leauesjbar^and fruit of the pitch tree ate all of one nature 3 vcrtuc,and operate , 

 fame facultie with the Pines. Cuk?» 



