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Of the Hiftorie of Plants 



ther doth it rot nor wa x old 



! 



\ 



J 



of Tamariskc,but fuller of fubftance 

 ner like to thofe of the Larch tree, bi 



fame is 

 and ferueth 



iped 



3 ferueth them for food. *" Wdiaac t0 Ants or Piftnires, 



Of this diuers make two kindes,the female and the male . the female barren *a u 



1. Theopbraflus reportetb, that diuers affirme the male to come of a- L "l? !?. e ma,e fruit- 



full 



yeeld 



lous fharpe and biting. 



4 



of the wood 



the Cedar tree, which rotteth not : there is nothing fo crifoed as the rnor VnTflr ' u that 

 make precious and coftly workes thereof. 8 iped as the root, and therefore they vfc 



to the 



than a 

 that of 



to 



* 



i 4 ------- ^ 



I know no difference betweenethe wilde and tame Cvorefle of our Am*™. k„. • u t . 

 efTe of their growth,which is helped fomewhat by art!* " ' hud - 



f 



Ly 



inthete«W 



and on the hills xailed Leuc h that is to fay, white, the tops whereof be alwaies couered S foot 

 Uttwm denieth it to be found vpon the tops of thefe hills, but in the bottoms on the rough «£ 

 and ridges of the hills : it growth likewifc in diuers places of England where it hath beeXK 



Grcenewich, and 



flies priuie Councell. 



- ^ * * S am « / 



fVade,one of the Clerkes of her 

 Ksdmmons Temple, and in other pa 



country ot Cyrenc vpon the tops ofmountames,and in extreme cold countries. Bettmm affirmcth 

 that there is found a ccrcaine wilde CyprefTe alfo in Candy,which is not fo high as other Cyprefle' 

 trees,nor groweth fharpe toward the top, but is lower, and hath his boughes fpred flat,round about 

 in compalTe : he faith the body thereof is alfo thicke : but whether this be T&ya,o{ which Thmkt- 



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n 



The tame Cypres tree it alwaies greene 5 the fruit may be gathered thrice a yeare, in lanuarie, 



ay,and September,and therefore it is fyrnamed Trifera. 



The wilde Cypres tree is late, and very long before it buddeth. 



«([ The Names 



in 



Cppitfle boom 



y pr« is caiica m oreetc,K»» ? e«w. or K»sm>j** « in Latmcfiuprefftu : in i 



?jft:'m French and Spanifli, C//>w : in high Dutch } Ctp^ffenbaultt 



(Tm : in (hops, Ctaw^i 



f/G 



Cupreft\ NucesCufrefi 



■wuiup» 5 4vjp^c9 ^//^.'inEnglifli, Cypres nuts or clogs. This tree in times paft was dedicated 

 to ?/«**, and was faid to bee deadly j whereupon it is thought that the fhadow thereof is vnfortu- 



not** 



nate. 



The wilde Cypres tree is called in Greeke, &« or *«'«, and &*»-.from this doth differ*** being a 



name not of a plant, but of a mortar in which dry things are beaten : Thy* as Pliny writeth, w.i3- 

 ,«« ,^ ,, .__ „ *__« _. . thisis burned among the fweetfmellSj which 



^^ i t r U^/TU +r\ their hilfTIC 



that 



which 



it is 



where he mentioned 



d odoriferous fmells, euen all of them, by that name } becaufe hee doth efpccial y 

 thaV in one vcrfe, of Cedrus and Thy a : the copies haue falfly Lmx> or ^ cb J^ 9 



iifp(i ^T^^^Vl« fry^Utmn^Uj r\f Tr**f*c . rfi/a Mt-f* ic pvfinr in the fifth bOOkeOl VtfjL.l 



S»den,andtbathcdia 



by lupters commandement went to Calyfft 



Tbeofhraftus attributeth great honor to this tree, (hewing that the roofs of old Temple 

 famous by rcafon of that wood,and that the timber thereof,of which the rafters are made 



infirmitie or corruption 





fru 



^[ The Temp 







The Cypres nuts 

 bloudy flix, and an 





1T The Venues. n 



s being (lamped and drunken in wine, as Dioprides writetn, « 



good againft the fpitting of bloud and all other iflues of bloud 



the U$kc 



They 



