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Of the Hiftorie of Plants 



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The 



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ee 



an 



foureneflc: within this'b" 2 ?,*?* 



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in the fafti ion and often timp«;„ .1- . - 

 nefle of the fruit. entImes i n the big. 



ftone, exceeding hard whi 7 ".*>*» 



s H ke both 



groweth 



f The Place. 





110 



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in hi? 



.Cojnell 



Cojnocle 



fa i England, But yet there be fundry JZ 

 of them growing in the gardens offuch" 

 loue rare and dainty plants, wherof I naue 

 a tree or two in my garden .' 



% The Time. 



t The tame Cornell tree floureth fome- 

 titne in February, & commonly in March 

 and afterwards the leaues come forth as 

 an vntimely birth : the berries or fruit are 



ripe in Auguft. 



5f The Names. 



The Grecians call it *e»u -. the Latines, 

 Cornus: in high Dutch, CtgncUftUD: in 

 row Dutch,C0Jtl0eIe hOOtn : the Italians, 

 Cornioto : in Vicnch t CormUier : in Spanifo, 

 Cermzolos : in Englift ; the Cornell tree, 

 and theCornelia treejof fome,long Cher- 

 rie tree. 



The fruit is named in Latine, Cmnm i 



Cornelian 



This is Cornus mas Theoj>hrafi } ox Theophraflus his fmall Cornell tree • for hefetterh downetwo 

 forts of the Cornell trees, the male, and the female : he maketh the wood of the male to be found, 

 as in this Cornell tree i which we both for this canfe and for others al Co haue made to be the male. 



fi 



Cornell tree^of which 



commonly called yirgafavgutnea, or Dogs berry tree, and Cormfyh 



A 



% Tie Temperature 



hath a verv harih or 



B 



yet may it alfo be eaten, as it is oftentimes. 



cooletbjdrietb, and bindero,' 



C 



aremedy againftthelaskeand bIoudyflix,itishurtfulltoacold ftomacke, and increafetn 

 *«». iwnefife thereof: the leaues and tender crops of the tree are likewife of an harfh and choking 

 tafte,and do mightily dry. 



They heale greene wounds that are great and deepe, efpecially in hard bodies, but they are not 



fo good for fmall wounds and tender bodies,as Galen writeth. 



HAP. IOf. 



Of the female Cornell or 'Dogberry tree 



Hat which the Italians 

 ~t groweth not 



^r The Vefcriftw 

 fatwttitu a,ox the bloudy Rod 



t bc Cornell tree, yet 



!Lf« jointed, and 



remaineth a flirub : the young branches there 01 f- Elder) b 



be of an obfeure red purple : they haue within a white fpong m 



the old ftalkes are hard and ftiffe, the fubftancc of the which is alfo whi 



of the Cornell tree : the leaues are alfo like, the middle rib whereof as : 



«refomefrhat reddifli: at the top whereof (land white flowres in fpokie 



tot 



bob 



foot 



into 



'. »» 'Tnies, 



