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OF FOREST-TREES. 115 



at last they were grubbed up, became a very wholesome and healthy cHAP. VI. 

 place. The Elder does likewise produce a certain green fly, almost ^^-^^y^ 

 invisible, which is exceedingly troublesome, and gathers a fiery redness 

 where it attacks. 



SPINDLE-TREE. 



EVONYMUS SPINDLE-TREE. This is a shrub which com- 

 monly grows in our hedges, and bears a very hard wood, of which they 

 sometimes make bowls for viols, and the inlayer uses it for its colour, 

 and instrument-makers for toothing of organs, and virginal keys tooth- 

 pickers, &c. What we else do with it I know not, save that (according 

 to its name abroad) they make spindles with it. I also learn, that three 

 or four of the berries purge both by vomit and siege, and the powder, 

 made of the berry, being baked, kills nits, and cures scurfy heads. 

 Matthiolus says, the poor people about Trent press oil out of the berries, 

 wherewith to feed their lamps : but why they were wont to scourge 

 parricides with rods made of this sln-ub, before they put them into the 

 sack, see Modestinus, L. penult. SS. ad Legem Pomp, de Parricid. cited 

 by Mr. Ray. 



DOGWOOD. 



Here might come in, or be named at least, AVILD CORNEL ^ or 

 DOGWOOD, good to make mill-cogs, pestles, bobbins for bone-lace, 

 spokes for wheels, &c. also the best skewers for butchers, because it does 

 not taint the flesh, and is of so very hard a substance, as to make wedges 

 to cleave and rive other wood with instead of iron. 



" EVONYMUS f etTROP^c;* J floribus plerisque quadrifidis. Lin. Sp. PI, 286. Commq}^ 

 SPINDLE-TREE. It is of the class and order Fenlandria Monogynia, 



There is also an evergreen Spindle-tree, which is a native of America. Linnaeus titles it 

 Evonymus floribus omnibus quinquefidis. Sp. PI. 286. 



^ In a note upon p. 55, Vol. II. Mr. Evelyn mentions the virginals as a musical instru- 

 ment, played on by young ladies in his time. It was much like the harpsichord, and played 

 upon by the fingers. 



y CORNUS (sAVGUiNEA ) arborea, cymis nudis. Lin. Sp. PI. 171. Bloody-twig, or 

 COMMON DOGWOOD. It is of the class and order Tetrandria Monogynia. 



