A 



B 



1364 



Of the Hiftorie of Plant 



± K^ibietU 



A branch with Catkins or floures. 



® 





' Tk Place. 



The Firre trees grow vnnnT,- l 

 in many woods of gII P h,gb mo ™toias 



which I continued S7 "* Mcmi '> ■ 



alfo on Mb in Italy w TT ilt h fou *» 

 it commeth do wS'^J^™™***-, 

 they are found likeS in Pn r^ 6 va,,ics; 

 Iceland, Ruffla, an* efpec! all ?£» 

 where I haue feene the Si eft r Norwa y> 

 world of this kinde eraSSS T ,n tbc 



earth about them, or any other h in?? any 

 little moflc about the i^^fe I 

 felues here and there into the ch inkes a l 



downe with any extreme gale of winde Yb/uc 

 ften thefe trees growing in Chemi^ufe? 

 fljue,and Lancafhire, where they gre* SS 

 plenty s as is reported, before *i£ fl X 

 then being ouerturned and ouerwhelmed hauc 

 lien fince in the moflcs and wateriemoorift 

 grounds very frefh and found vnrill this day & 

 fo full of a refinous fubftance, that they burnt 

 like a Torch or Linke, and the inhabitants of 



wood 



wood 



igrecth with 



K TheTi 

 he Pine tr< 



% The 2^6 



rofin called T^,i n Englifh,Frankinfcnce ; bur 

 from rhe young Fir trees proceeded an excel- 

 lent cleare and liquid Rofin,in tafte like to the 

 peelings or outward rinde of the Pomccitron. 



time the fame 



tBeit j %\}mmtt, and mci^ 



Wmrnn bmm : in low Dutch,*©ttte ©ennen Boomer 3belioom,and mm 



Ksib 



French,<& Sap,ox Sapin ; the other is Strife. 



The liquid rofin which is taken forth of the barke of the young Firre-trecs, is cal/edin Grecke 

 **,-** .*„, : in Latme.Z^w^er^and Uchrym* abiegna : in the fhops of Germany, as alfo of 

 fcngland,2V«fo»£»M Veneu, or Venice Turpentine:in Italian, Lwimo : diuers doe thinke that D. 



tfcerides 

 Tar is. 



Oleafa Refi 



K^irida. Ahietum Refma^ot dry Rofin of th 

 Latine,of biegna Refim;it hath a fwcet fmeJ 

 ofFrankinfcence. 



>, a ad in 



y, , % 'The Temperature, 



ne barke,fruit,and gums of the Fir-trce s are of the nature of the Pitch tree and his gums. 



Th .• WF <JT TheVertucs. 



humonr qU i ^°? n of the Fir tree ca " ed Turpentine,Ioofeth the belly,driueth forth hot chofcnek 

 grauell and mundifict « the kidnies, prouoketh vrine, and driueth forth the none and 



noSi^. C l ak ^ n with Su S ar and the P oud e r of Nutmegs, cureth the flrangurie, ftaieth the Go 

 in women Voluntary iffue of mans nature, called the running of the rains,and thevvbite Hint 



C It 



' lethVnTS^^^ 



ithea- 



n th~«St m 3 b mi S htiI y>4eciafly if it be wafhedYn Plantaine watered afterward in Rofe *» 



ter. 



and Mafticke finely fcarced,^- 



Chap. 



