Lib. 3. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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the fpace of tvvelue daies or thereabout .- which done, they take it forth, and beat in morters vntill 
it be come to the thickneffe and clammineffe of Limedaftly, that they may cleare it from pieces of 
barke and other filthinefle.they do waih it very often : after which they adde vnto it a little oyledf 
nuts, and after that do put it vp in earthen veflells. 
: The Place. 
The Holly tree groweth plentifully in all countr ies .It groweth green both winter and fommer- 
the berries are ripe in September, and they do hang vpon the tree a long time after. If 
«[f The Names. 
This tree or fhrub is called in Latine /. Igrifolinm in Italian, Agrifiglio, and Aguifoglio : in Spa- 
nilh ,Azcio: in high Dutch, JBalDDtftell, and of diners ^itecpaltWn : in low Dutch, fn 
French,£/te< and Houjfon .- in Englifh, Holly, Hulucr, and Holme. 
The Temperature. 
The berries of Holly are hot and drie,and of thin parts, and wafte away winde. 
TheVertncs. 
Tliey are good againft the collicke : fortenortwelue being inwardly taken bring away by the A. 
Iloole thicke flegmaticke humors, as we haue learned of them who oftentimes made triall therebf. 
The Birdlime which is made of the barke hereof is noleflehurtfullthan that of Miffeltoe,for it B 
is maruellous clammiest gluethvp all the intrails,itfhutterh and draweth together the guts and 
puifages of the excrements, andby this rneanes it bringeth deftrmftion to man, not by any qualitie, 
butby his glewing fubftance. 
Holly beaten topouder and drunke 3 is an experimented medicine againft all the fluxes of the C 
belly,as the dy fenterie and fuch like. 
Chap. jZ. Of theOf^e. 
I Quercia 'vulgaris cumg Unde & mnfco fog. 
The Oke Tree with nis Acornes and Mofle. 
•If The Dcfcription, 
1 THe common Oke groweth to ai 
great tree ; the trunke or body wher- 
ofiscouered ouerwitha thicke rough barke 
full of chops or rifts : the armes or boughs are 
likewife great, difperfing themfelues farre a- 
broad : the leaues are bluntly indented about 
the edges, fmooth, and of a (Tuning greepe co- 
lour, whereon is often found a molt fvveet detv 
and fomewhatclammie,andalfoa fungousex- 
crefcence, which we call Oke Apples. The 
fruit is long, couered with a browne hard and 
tough pilling, fet in a rough fcaly cup or husk: 
there is often found vpon the body of the tree, 
and alfo vpon the branches ,a certaine kind of 
long white mofle hanging downe from the 
fame : and fometimes another wooddie plant, 
which we cal Mi(Teltoe,being either an cxcre- 
fcence or outgrowing from the tree it felfe, or 
ofthc doung (as it is reported) of a bird that 
hath eaten a certaine berrie. f Befides thefe 
there are about the roots of old Okes within 
the earth certaine other excrefcences, which 
Pauhine and others haue called Vita qttercinx, 
becaufe they commonly grow in chillers to- 
gether, after the mannerof Grapes and about 
their bignes,being fometimes round, & other- 
whiles cornered, ofa woody fubftance, hollow 
within-and fomtimes of a purple, otherwhiles 
ofa whitifh colour on the outfide :theirrafte 
isaftringent. andvfe fingular in all Dyfente- 
