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treehath a thin bark or rinde, which in hot re- 

 gions will chop and rend it felf into many cra- 

 . nies or pieces:out of which rifts iflueth a cer- 

 taine gum or liquor much like vnto Frankin- 

 cenie : the leaues are very final], narrow, and 

 hardjand fomwhat prickIy 5 growingeuer green 

 along the branches,thicke together : amongft 

 which come forth round and frrall berne^ 

 greene at the firft,but afterward blade, decli- 

 ning to blewneffepf a good fauor,and fircet in 

 tafte,which do wax fomwhat bitter after they 



be dry and withered. , 



2 The great Iuniper tree comes now and 

 then to the height of the Cypres tree ■ with* 

 greater and harder leafe , and alfo with a innt 

 as big as Oliue berries, as Bcllenm writetn, oi 

 an exceeding faire blew colour, and or an ex- 

 cellent fweet fauour. . .r 3nl . 

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. bit, but growes low,and as it were creeps vp 

 : the ground, and confifts of fundry thick r "d 

 ihorter branches than the common , k« d gg 

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