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Platanus. 



The Plane tree. 



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Defcript 



He Plane is a great tree, hauing 

 very long and farre fpreading 

 boughes cafting a wonderful! 

 broad fhadow,by reafoa wherot it was 

 highly commended and eftecmed ofa- 

 mongthe old Romans: the leaues are 

 cornered like thofe of Palm* Chr.fli, 

 greater than Vine leaues, and hanging 

 vpon little red foot-ftalkes:thc flourcs 

 are fmall and motfie, and of a pale ycl- 

 lowifh colour : the fruit is round like a 

 ball,rugged, and fomewbat hairy ; but 

 in Afia more hairy and greatcr 5 almoft 



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The Plane tree delighteth to grow 

 by fprings or riuers i Pliny reports chac 

 they werewont tobeecherin.ed with 

 wine : they grew af rcrward((aith he) to 

 bee of fo great honour (meaning the 

 Plane trees) as that they were cheri- 

 fhedand watered with wine: and it is 

 found by experience that the fame is 

 very comfortable to the roots, and wee 

 haue already taught, that trees defire 

 todrinkc Wine. This tree is ftrangein 

 Italy, it is no where fcene in Germany, 

 nor in the low Countries : in Afia it 

 ~ , . . _ groweth plentifully : it is found alfo 



in Landy,growing m valhes,and neerc ynto the hill Athos, as Petrus BeHanius in his Singularities 

 doth declare: it growth in many places of Greece, and is found planted in fomc places of Italy 

 tor pleafure rather than for profit. My fcruant WillUm km arjh *g(whom I fent into the Med iterra- 

 nean feaas Surgeon vnto the Hercules of London) found diuers trtfcs hereof growing in Lepanto, 

 hard by the lea fide, at the entrance into the towne, a port of Morea, becing a part of Greece, and 

 from thence brought one of thefe rough buttons,bcing the fruit thereof, t There are one or two 



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1 he Plane trees caft their leaues in Winter, as Bellonius teftificth, and therefore it is no 



that they keepe away the Sun in Summer, and not at all in Winter: there is, faith Pliny, n< 



commendation of the tree, than that it keepeth away the Sunne in Sumner, and entertaineth it in 

 Winter. 



mm . % The Names. mv 



This tree is called in Greeke, nw»»r i and Iikewife in Latine Platavw : it beareth his name of the 



med in Eng!ift),PJane tree. 



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