Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
L ie. 3, 
f The Place. 
In diners places there are great woods of thefe trees, hills alfo and vallies are beautified there- 
with: they grow plentifully in many countries of S paine, and in Languedocke and Prouence in 
great plenty. It is likewife found in Italy. It beareth an Acorne greater, and of a larger fize than 
doth the tame Oke ; in fome countries lefTer and fhorter : they are fengers in England, notwith- 
flanding there is here and there a tree thereof, that hath been procured from beyond the feas ; one 
growetb in her Maiefties Priuy Garden at White-Hall, neere to the gate that leadeth into the 
ftreet, and in fomeotherplaceshereand there one. 
«y The Time. 
It is greeneatall times 01 the yeare : it is late before the A cornes be ripe . clufttu reportetb,thac 
he faw the floures growing in clufters of a yellow colour in May. 
«j[ The Thames. 
This Oke is named in Greeke®^,., .■ in Larine, //<?*.• in Spanifli,B»^'»a.' in Italian, Elize in 
French, Chefnetterd inEnglifli, Barren Skarlet Oke,orHolme Oke, and alfo of fome, French or 
opaniih Oke. 
The Spaniards call the Fruit or Acorne Bello*a,ox Abillota . T hcopbr ajl us feemeth to call this tree 
not Prinos, but Smilax • for he maketh mention but of one ilex one!y,and that is of Scarlet Oke • 
and he fheiveth that the Arcadians do not call the other 7/ar,but Smilax : for the name Smilax is of 
many fignifications : there is Smilax among the Pulfes.which is alfo called Dolichus, and Phafeolas - 
ana Smilax a(pera,a.nd Lxuis ,amongfl the Binde weeds : likewife Smilax is taken of Diofcorides to 
be the Yew tree. Qi Smilax, Thcofhrafius vvriteth thus inhis third booke : the inhabitants 
of Arcadia do call a certaine tree Smilax , being like vnto the Skarlet Oke : the leaues thereof be 
not fet with fuch fharpe prickles, but tendererand fofter. 
of this smilax Pliny alio vvriteth, in his fixteenth booke, chap. 6. There be of Ilex, faith hejtvvp 
kindes,£.v ijsin Italia folio non multum d oleis fljr/?a»/,called of certain Grecians Smilaces , in the pro- 
vinces xAqmftlia : in which words, in head of Oliue trees may perchance be more truly placed 
ubertSy or the Corke tree 5 for this kinde of //or or Smilaxis not reported of any of theold writers 
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