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in the Tea :biit as little as fhrubs.Without H trcuks pillarsjor the ftreight of Gebrakarjthere are Q 

 fhrubstobcefecnej bearing leaves rcfcmblingLceke blades: and others leaved like to the Bay 

 tree, or to the hearbe Thyme : and both kinds being catt up a land, turns into the pumifli ftone. 

 But in the Eaft parts it is a wonderous matter to thinkcjthat fo foone as ever a man is pall Cop- 

 tus, he lliali find nothing to grow in all the wilderneflcj but onely a kind of thorne or thiftle^cal- 

 led the thirftie or drie thornejand the fame but here and there^in very few places : whereas in the 

 red Ica^whole woods doe live^and namely jof Baies and Olives bearing their berries : alfo when it 

 raineth,ccrtaine Mulliromes, wliich no fooner bee caught with the Sunnes beat,but they turnc 

 into the pumifh ftonc. As touching the fhrubs there growingjthey be commonly three c ubites 

 high, and thofcfo full of fea dogs and curresj thatamanfhall hardly looke out of the fhip in 

 fatetie^for that many times they will take hold of the very oaresjand aflaile them. The foldiors of H 

 Alixmdtr the Great who failed into India^made rcport,That the branches and leaves of the fea 

 trces/o long as they were under the water looked greene^but when they be taken forth, prefenc- 

 ly dried with the heat of the Sunne^and became fait. Alfo that about the fhore they found ftonie 

 rufhes and rcedsj like unto naturall ruQies indeed. Moreover, in the dcepe fea they light upon 

 certainc litdc trees braunched and full of boughes, in colour of an Oxe horne^ but the head or 

 top of them was red : handle them in your hand,they were as brittle as glafferput them into the 

 fire^they would bee red bote like yron : quench them againe, they returned to their former co- 

 lour. In the fame tra^l:, there bee fomc tides fo high, that the fea overfioweth and covereth the 

 woods growing withinihe Iflands,although there be trees in them taller than the higheflPlanes 

 or Poplars. And thofe trees bear leaves like LawrcU.and flowers for fmeli and colour refcmbling J 

 the Violet. Their berries bee like to Olives, and thofe of a pleafant and fweet favor, which thoy 

 bring forth in the Autumne : and their leaves never fhed but continue all the ycarc long. The 

 lowerfortof thefe trees the floud covereth all and whole : butthegreateft bearcup their heads 

 above the fea, whercunto themarinersdoe faflen and tie theiivellclsjat a high water; but when 

 it is ebbe, at the very root. Moreover, by their faying they faw other trees in the fame fea, with 

 leaves ever greenc upon them, carrying a fruit like to Lupines. King luha. reporicth,That about 

 the Iflandsof the Trogloditcs there groweth a fhrub within the fea, called Ifidos Plocamos^ 

 \ijfis hairc] refembling corrall,and void of leaves : cut a braunch of itfrom the flock, it become 

 meth hard, changeth colour and is blacke : if it fall, it is fo tender, that it will breake like glaffe. 

 Hee ipcaketh moreover of another called Charito-blepharon, which is of great force in ama- K 

 torious matters to procure love: And thereof women (quoth hee) make them carkanets and 

 pendant ornaments to hang about their neckcs.To conclude^he afFirmeih,that this fhrub hath 

 a certainc^intelligencewhenaman would take hold of it, and therefore waxeth as hard as an 

 hornc, infomOch as it is able to turne the edge of a knife or bill, that unneath or hardly it may 

 be cut : but in cafe it be entrapped and drawne up with cords without any edge toole, it prefently 

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