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npHcPinc tree isof two forts,according to Tbeopkrajlm : the one .--**. that 



A the garden • the other a>., or wild : hec faith that the Macedonians doe 



'A*t»t, barren or wirhout fruit,which is to vs vnknowne .- rht- ?ar/»r »<■;*«. »,,.. 



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Pi/tsa fat iva, five domefiica. 



The tame or manured Pine tree. 





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U Tfo Defcriftion, 



He Pine tree groves high and great in the 



rrn nl -^ nr ood y ..,k;^K u-i_. , . . 



ibouc is clad with a multitude of bouehes 



which diuidcthcmfclues into diueri branches 

 whereon arc fet fmaJI Jeaucs, very ftmight, rur- 

 row/omwhat hard and Harp pointed : the wood 

 or timber is hard,hcaUy,ab<«u the heart or mid- 

 dle lull of an oilous Jicjuor,and of a reddifh co- 

 lounthc fruit orclogsaic hard.great^nd confift 

 of many found woody fcalcs,vnu< r winch afc in- 

 eluded ccrtainc knobs without mane, coucred 

 withawoodden mell like fmallnuts,whcrin are. 

 white ketncIs,Iong,vcry fwcet.and coucred wtt h 

 a thin skin or membrane,thar eafily is rubbed off 

 with the fingers , which kcrnell is vfed in medi- 

 cine. 



f The Plate. 



This tree groweth of it fclf in many places of 

 Italy,and cfpecially in the territory of Raui-nna 

 and in Languedoc,about Marfiles,in Spain^and* 

 in other hot regions.as in the Eaft countries. Ic 

 is alfo chcrifhed in the gardens of pleafuredsotn 

 in the Low-countries and England. 



^J 7 be Time. 



The Pine tree groweth grcenc both Winter 

 and Summer: the fruit is commonly two ycarcs 

 before it be ripe : wherefore it is not to be found 

 without ripe fruit , and alfo others as yet very 

 fmall and not come toripcnefTc. 



<rr the Names. 



fatrj^FrG/pta, or rather M.wf, 



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for 



the tame Pine in Arcadia and about E !ia change her name : and by this alteration of them it hap- 

 pens that the fruit or nuts of the Pine tree found in the cones or apples.be nam I in Greek by Dio- 

 fc9yides,Galen,Paultu^vM\ others, ««JAr ; as though they lhould termc it Pitpsfruclw or the fruit of 



the Pine tree. W- J 



There is alfo another v**-. inLatine/z^cr the Pitch tree.which diffcrethmuch from the pine 

 tree: but fytit of Arcadia dirfcrcrh nothing from the Pine trce,as wchauc faid. 



The fruitor apples of thefe be called in Grccke, ■** and in Latinc Com .• notwithftandine Co 

 »os is a common name to all the fruits of thefe kinde of trees : they be alfo named in Latine Nuett 

 p»e* ;by Mncfttheus in Greek \q*K by Diodes C*HjHm t K~-<*~. which be notwithftandine the 

 fruit or clogs of the tree that Thcopbraflus namcth r.>«.or the wildc Pine tree,as Atheruus (kith. Ic 

 "thought that the whole fruit is called by Galen in his fourth commentary vpon Hippocrates books 

 of diet in fliarp difeafci,?; rrf/fc : yet in his fecond book of the Faculties of nourishments hedoth 

 not call Corns or the apple by the name of Strobiles, but the nuts contained in it. And in like man- 

 ner in his feuenth booke of the faculties of fimple mcdicines-.The Pine aoole fruir, ftith ne,wbich 



they. 



