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Lent i feus. 



The Mafticke tree. 



Of the Hifiorie of Plants. 



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84. 



the Len tisfy or Mafticke tree. 







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\7h Defer ipion. 



THe Mafticke tree groweth co 

 ihrub, without any great body. 



ea 



oftentim 



fifing vp with 

 be Hafell, 



tree : the boughes ^oh K '^Z°S : 

 the barkers of a yellotvifo red colourable like 

 wife and hard to be broken. There nana vp^ 

 rib for the moft part eight leaues , fet vpon amid. 

 die nbbe much like to the leaues of Licorice, but 

 narder,of a deep green coloured oftentimes fom- 

 what red in the brims, asalfo hauingdiuersveines 



fomwhat ftn 



ux unci : cue noures De moiiie, and grow in clufters 

 vpon long ftems : after them come vp the beries,of 



afterward 



of a purple coloured Jaft of all blacke,fat,& oily, 

 with an hard blacke ftone within,the kernel where- 

 of is white,of which alfois made oile,as DiofcmJti 



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codsbelides 



cence than a cod) wry thed like an home ; in irhich 

 lieth at the fir ft a liquor, and afterwards when this 

 ivaxeth ftalc,little liuing things like vnto gnats, as 

 in the Turpentine homes, and in the folded leaues 

 of the Elme tree.There comes forth of the maftick 

 trecarofin 3 but dry,called Mafticke. 



H The Place. 



The Maftick tree growcth in many regions^sin 

 Syria 3 CandyJtaIy,Languedock,aBd in moft Pro. 



uinces of Spaine j but the chiefeft is in Chios an 

 ecially looked vnto, and that for the Maftick fake, 



If The Time. 



wxii^u 13 lliV&t; ^4iiiLiv.«wwv,iy yveww uiv/ii vmwuuiy 11UL1X tllC liU^uauUCU MailiCK tTeeSjaliU 



to all parts of the world 



The floures be in their pride in the fpring time,and the berries in Autumne. The Maftick mult 

 be gathered about the time that Grapes be. 



f The Hames, . . - UA . 



This tree is called in Greeke «w • in Latine, Lemifcus : in Italian, Lentifqut: in 5paniin,« * 

 and Arceyra : in Englifli, Maftick tree,and of fome,Lentiske tree. ;f w,j&. 



The Rofin is called in Greeke,^,, «.»» and m-** : in Lztm^Lentifima Reft»*M "f*™L s J pi . 

 the : in fhops, M4fiix : in Itnlian.Mapee : in high and low Dutch and French alio, Maps . r 

 nift,4/w4^ 4 ,M^^ ja nd^/ww4:inEngIiili,Maftick. jr,<tedeM*t*. 



Clnftui writeth,That the Spaniards call the oile that is preiTed out of the beries,^'/ 



heate/lryin'kfc- 





'^f The Temperature. 



The leaues,barke,and gum of the Maftick tree arc of a meane and temperat 

 cond degree,and fomwhat ftringent. 



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^ The yertues. 



The leaues and barke of the Mafticke tree flop the laske , the 



of 



bloudy flU, fpi*m 



