JLib. 3* 



Of the Hfflorie ofPIants. 



Service tree in fiiape and rtianner of growing, that it is hard to know one from the other but that 

 the leauesare foft and hairy, hauing a red finue or rib thorow the midft of the leaf: the flours grow 

 with the leaues vpon long ftcms cluttering together like Cats taileor the catkins of tbc Nut tree 

 but greater,and of a whitifli green colour 5 after which come clutters of round berries, growing in 

 bunches like Grapes. 5 



2 The Sumach of Plinies defcription groweth like a fmall hedge tree , hauing many flender 

 twiggy branches garnifhed with leaues like Myrtnsfir rather like the leaues of the fumbe tree A- 

 mong which come forth (lender moffie flours,of no great account or value ; which bring forth fmal 



feeds^inclofed within a 



body 



thefe kindes of Sumach being wounded with fome iron inftrumcnt 3 yeeldeth a gum or liquour. 



% The Place. 

 Sumach growc th 3 as Vioficrides faith 3 in ftony places : it is found in diuers mountains & woods 

 in Spain,and in ma ny places on the mount Apennine in Italy,and alfoneere vnto Pontus. Archigc- 

 ms in Galen Jib. %. of Medicines according to the places afFcaedjfhcwcth^that k groweth in Syria, 

 inak ing choice of that of Syria, 



% The Time. 



The floures of Sumach come forth in Iuly : the feed with the berries arc ripe in Autumne. 



^J The Names. 



This is called in Grecke M* Rfasfoith Pliny^hath no Latine name 3 yet Gaza after the fignifica- 

 tion of the Greeke word,feigncth a name,callingit Flnida : the Arabians name it Sumach : die Ita- 



or <S3>umacIj in Englifl^Sumacb^Coriars Surtiach 



called p^'Cv^jv^ , in Latinc^'us Coriaria y or Rl>oe. 



h,bycontraftingtheword,theycal it Zantac 



lifh 3 Mcat Sumach,and Sauce Sumach. 



H* ; inLztmz % Rhas culinariafindi Rhus obfi 



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the third degree,and cold in the fccond,as Galen faich. 



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f The Vertttes. 

 The leaues of Sumach boiled in wine and drunken,do flop the Iask,the inordinat courfe of wo- A 

 mens ficknefeand all other inordinat iflues of bloud. 



The feeds of Sumach eaten in Sauces with meat (top all mancr of fluxes of thebelly^heblou- B 



Wh 



hairesblacke, and is put intoftooles 



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the bodies of fuch as haue the Dyfenterie 3 and is to be giuen them alfo in drinke. 



The leaues made into an ointment or plaifter with hony and vineger,ftaycs the fpreding nature 



of gangrens and Pterygia. 



The dry leaues fodden in water vntill the deco&ioti be as thicke as honey,yeeld forth a certaine E 

 oilineffe which perfonneth all the effc&s of Lirium. 



The feed isnolefTeeffe&ualltobeftrewed in pouder vpon their meats that are Caliaci or Dyfen- p 



ttricL ;.,.,' J r 



mixechv 



T 



i 



Diofcorides 



:oIes,heale the hemorrhoid s . q 



the hollownefTe of the teeth, taketh h 





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hap. in, Of%ed Sumach; 



<[[ The D'efcriftbn. 



£ *TpHcfc two figures arc of one and the felfe fame plant • the firft (heweth the fhrub being 



* in floure,the other when it is ful floured with the fruit grown to ripeneffernorwithliafl- 



di ng fome haue deemed them to be of two kinds,wherein they weredeceiued. 



• t This excellent and moft beautifull plant Coggjgria ( beeing reputed of the Italian* and the 



Vcnetiansfor a kind ofMfas or Sumach.becaufe it is vfed for the fame purpofes whereto Rhus fer- 



r r " uetb, 



