Lib.}. Of the Hiftorie of Plants. j , ™ 



^f The Defcriftit* 



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THe tame or manured Oliue tree groweth high and great with many b 

 Inner narrnur I^an^c nnf mnrfi unlilr#» tht* Ipitipc nf \A/t Hrkur#»c knf n<i»ni« 



leauesofWiilowe 

 growing vponclu ft ers or bunches : rhefi 



wherein is an hard ftone : from which fruit is preiled that liquor which we call oyle Oliue. 



2 The wilde Oliue is like vnto the tame or garden Oliue trce,fauing that the k aues are fome* 

 thing fraaller : among which fometimes doe grow many prickly thornes : the fruit hereof is letter 

 than of the former, and moc in number, which do feldome come to maturity or ripenes in fo much 

 that the oilc which is made of thofe berries,continueth euer grcene,and is called oile Omphacine, 

 or oile of vnripe Oliues. 



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Both the tame and the wilde Oliue trees grow in very many places of Italy, France, and Spaine, 



doe 



Columeffa writetb, thataboue fixty miles from the fea they cither die, or elfe bring forth no fruit: 

 but the beft, and they that doe yeeld the moft pleafant oile are thofe that grow in the Ifland called 

 Candy. 



*% The Time. 



All the Oliue trees floure in the raoneth of Iune : the fruit is gathered in Noucmber ot Decem- 

 ber : when they be a little dried and begin to wrinkle they are put in to the pre (Te, and out of them 



ripe, andwhileft they 



«| The Names* 



fait and 



i Oliue tree is called in Greeke*w-,and th&Swovin Latine, oka [a 



Ocibaunt : in low Dutcb,£DltjfbOOme t in Italian/) Is ho domeftict.-ii 



iua, and 

 French, 



liftuOliue. 



>ani(ti 9 A%ejtuM : in French, Dutcb>and Eng 



badt 



MueJlriS) Oleajl 



JBxhiopca : in Dutch, 8&alD Oelbauttt t in lu\Mn,OliucfalttdUC0 : in Sp*i\i(h>\^%e6Hchc p Azam6nt, 

 bcjro : in French > 0//ir;er fauna? e : 



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y 



The Oliues which be fo ripe as that either they fall of themfelues, or be ready to fall, which are A 



nourishment. 

 The vnripe Oliues are dry and binding. 



,yet 



doe 



ftomacke.thev remoue the loathing of meate. ft irre vo an aooetitc ; but there is no nouri 



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 C 



The branche 



good 



doe coole, dry, and binde,and efpecial- t D 



ly of the wild Oliue ; for they be of greater force than thofe of the tame : therefore by reafon they * 



be mildet they are better for eye medicines, which haue need of binding things to be mixed with 



them. 



flay 



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on 



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quench the heate of hot fwellings,and be good jpr kernels in the flankerth 

 w the head,and being chewed they are a remedy for vlcers in the mouth. 



The juyceanddcco&ion alfoarcof thefamceffe& : n fcU ~ 2 *— 



bleedings,and alfo the whites. 



i 



ftay all manner of 



Wine added thereto (which is better) or G 



the wood whileft it is burning hcaleth tetters, fcurfs H 



wth water,and being dried in the Sun it is made vp into I ittlc cakes like perfumes. 

 The fweat or oyle which iflueth forth of L ~ ~ * ^- ,A - -- *- — ' - * * 



and fcabs,if they be annointed therewith. 

 The fame which is pretTed forth of the vnripe Oliues is as cold as it is binding. I 



Theold oile which is madeoffweet and ripe Oliues^being kept long,dothwithall become hot- K 



^r.and 



and that oile which was madeof the vnripe 



" wiay, partly binding, and partly digeltmg ., I 



°y a ge,and the other property of binding of his 



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