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tafte it hath, both while it is frdh, and utter it hath becne long kept dry, 

 doth cuidently declare his tenuity or" parts, a digelling and clcanling qua- 

 lity it is polfeired with, which if any indultrious would make tryall, hec 

 fhould tinde the effects. 



CHAP. CXIX. 

 Arbor Iud<e. ludas tree. 



IVdas tree rifeth vp in fome places, where it rtandeth open from a wall, and alone 

 tret- from other trees (as in a Garden at Battherfey, which fometimes agoe belon- 

 ged to Mailer Morgan, Apothecary to the late Queene Elizabeth of famous me- 

 mory) to be a very great and tall tree, exceeding any Apple tree in height, and equall 

 in bignclll- of body thereunto (as my felfe can teltifie, being an eye witnelTe thereof) 

 when as it had many (talkes of flowers, being in the bud, breaking out of the body of 

 the- tree through the barke in diuers places, when as there was no bough or branch near 

 them by a yard at the leall, or yet any leafe vpon the tree, which they gathered to put 

 among other flowers, for Nofegayes) and in other places it groweth to bee but an 

 hedge bu(h, or plant, with many fuckers and fhootes from belowe, couered with a 

 darke reddilh barke, the young branches being more red or purplifh : the flowers on 

 the branches come forth before any (hew or budding of leaues, three or foure (tan- 

 ding together vpon a fmall foote-rtalke, which are in fa(hion like vnto Peafe blof- 

 fomes, but of an excellent deepe purplifh crimfon colour : after which come in their 

 places fo many long, flat, large, and thirine cods, of a browni(h colour, wherein are 

 contained fmall, blackifh browne, flat, and hard feede: the roote is great, and run- 

 neth both deepe, and farre fpreading in the earth : the leaues come forth by them- 

 f clues, euery one (landing on a long ftalke, being hard & very round, like vnto the leafe 

 of the largeft A far urn, but not fo thick, of a whitifh green on the vpper fide, and grayifh 

 vnderneath, which fall away euery yeare, and fpring a frefh after the Spring is well 

 come in, and the buds of flowers are fprung. 



There is another of this kinde, growing in fome places very high, fomewhat like Fhre alto. 

 the former, and in other places alfo full of twiggy branches, which are greener then 

 the former, as the leaues are likewife : the flowers of this kinde are wholly white, and 

 the cods nothing fo red or browne, in all other things agreeing together. 



The Place. 



The former groweth plentifully in many places of Spaine, Italy, Pro- 

 uence in France, and in many other places. The other hath beene fent vs 

 out ot Italy many times, and the feede hath fprung very well with vs, but it 

 is fomewhat tender to keepe in the Winter. 



The Time. 



The flowers (as I faid) appeare before the leaues, and come forth in A- 

 prill and May, and often (boner alfo, the leaues following fhortly after; 

 but neither of them beareth perfecl feede in our Country, that euer I could 

 learne, or know by mine owne or others experience. 



The Names. 



Some would referre this to Cercis, whereof Theophraftus maketh men- 

 tion in his firft Booke and eighteenth Chapter, among thofe trees that beare 

 their fruit in cods, like as Pulfe doe: and hee remembreth it againe in the 

 fourteenth Chapter of his third Booke, and maketh it not vnlike the white 



Poplar 



