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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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Of the Home-beame or bard 'Beame Tree 



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BttuUs^five CArfinus. 



The Horn- beam tree. 



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beam 



rrccbauing a great body,tbe wood or timber 

 whereoi is better for arrowes and fhafrs,piillcyes 

 for mils,and fuch likedcuices,than Kim or VVich 

 I lafell ; for in time it waxcth To bard , that the 

 toughncfleand hardnesof it may be rather com- 

 pared to horn than vnto woodland thcrfore it was 

 called Hornc-bcamor Hard-beam : the Icaucs of 

 it arc like the Elmc,fauing that they be tenderer $ 

 among thofchangcertaine triangled things, vpon 

 which be found knaps or little heads of the big- 



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root 



q Tie Place. 



Betuliu ox the Horn-beam tree grows plentiful- 

 ly in Northampton (hircand in Kent by Graucf- 

 end, where it is commonly taken for a kindc of 

 Elme. 



% The Time, 



This tree fprings in April!, and the feed is ripe 



in September. 



^f The Names. 



The Horn-beamc tree is called in Grcckc, W?« : 

 which is as much to fay as Conjugalispx belonging 

 to the yoke,becaufc it ferues well to make fafa of, 

 in Latine 7*gu,yokes vvherwith oxen arc yoked to. 

 gether 5 rtrhich are alfo euen at this time made 



thereof, as witneffeth Beuedicitu Curtius Symphm- 

 Mus,and our felues haue fufficient knowledge thereof in our owne country,and therefore it may be 

 Engl iflied, Yoke Elm. It is called 6f fome Carpinns ^nd Zugia • it is alfo called Betulusjis if it were 

 a kinde of Birch j btrt my felfe better like it fhould be one of the Elmcs : in high- Dutch, 9 i^OJtU 

 in FrenchC^r^ : in Iz&lhnfarpino : in Engli(h,Hom-beam,Hard-beatn, Yoke- El me, and in fome 



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any certain experiments of our owne knowledge, more than hath been faid for the vfe of Husban- 

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C h a p. 116. Of the Elme tree. 



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which are thefe. 



VlmwvtUgatimifima folio late fcalro. The common Elme. 





* HPH is E lme is a very great high tree 5 the bark of the yong trees^and boughes, of the elder, 



■* which are vfually lopped or (Tired, is fmooth aud very tough^nd will ftrip or pill ^ r0 | n 



>e wood a great length without brcaking:the bark of the body of the old tree as the trees grow in 



gnefle teares or rents,which makes it very rough.The inner moft wood of the tree is of a reddifh 



