134 6 Of the Hiftory of Plants. L i b. 3. 
f Cerri minorts ramttlua cumfiore. 
A branch of the fmaller Holme Oke with floures . 
bringeth forth oft times a certain fmboth 
kindeof Gall not altogether vnprofi tabic. 
This Oke likewife bringeth forth another 
kinde of excrefence, which the Grauer hath 
omitted in the figure, which is called in 
Greeke ♦*'«*•> Gaza nameth it Penis. Th; 
Penis or pricke is hollow, moifie, hangir 
dovvne halfe a yard loiig, like a long rag c 
linnencloath. 
2 The fecond is altogether like the 
firft, failing that this beareth fmaller A- 
cornes , and the whole tree is altogether 
leife, wherein confifteth the difference. 
t Both this & the former cary floures 
cluttering vpon long ftalkes, like as in the 
common Oke • but the fruit doth not fuc- 
ceed them , but groVforth in other pla- 
ces. 4: 
The Place. 
This Oke groweth in vntoiled places, it 
is feldome times found, and that but in 
Woods onely :it is for the rnoft partvn- 
knovvne in Italy,as pliny reporteth. 
aff The T ime. 
They bring forth their fruit or Accrues 
in the fall of the leafe. 
The Names. 
This Oke is called in Greeke [ ■ in 
Latine, Ccrrvs ■. yet doth Pltuy make men- 
tion both ol *Aigilop, and alfo of Cenus : * 
ai 3 ;«.+ is likeivife one of the difeafes of 
corne, called in Latine Feftuca : in Englifh, vvilde Otcs, and far differing from the tree t^Egiiofs. 
That which hangeth from the boughs, Pliny, lib .1 Q. cap.%. calleth P antes onely : thatacorne tree 
named •PEgilofs bringeth forth Panes arentes, withered prickes, couered with white moffie iags han- 
ging downe, not only in the barke, but alfo from the boughes, halfe a yard in bignefle, bearing a 
fiveet fmell, as we haue laid, among ointments. 
? «[f The Temperature and Vert ties. 
We finde nothing written of the faculties of this tree among the old Writers, neither of our 
owne experience. 
Chap. 3 6 . Of the Qor\e 0 \e. 
The Defcripiim. 
1 He Corke tree is of a middle bigneffe likevnto//«,or the barren skarlet Oke, but 
J. with a thicket body,and fewer boughes : the leaues be for the moil part greater, broa- 
tter, rounder, and more nicked in the edges : the barke of the tree is thicke, very rug- 
ged, and full of chinkes or crannies that cleaueth and diuideth it felfe into pieces, which vnlefle 
they be taken aw'ay in due time do giue place to another barke growing vnderneath, which when 
tneoidis remouedis maruellous red, as though it were painted with fome colour : the Acorne 
ltandeth in a cup, which is great, briftled, rough, and full of prickles : this Acorne is alfoaftrin- 
gent ° r binding, more vnpieafant than the Holme Acorne, greater in one place, and Me in ano- 
2 The Corke tree with narrow leaues groweth likewife to the height and bignefTe of a great 
tree ; the trunke or body whereof is couered with a rough and fcabbed barke of an ouerworn blac- 
J . c °lonr, which lucwife cleaueth arid cafteth his coat when the inner barke groweth fomwhac 
thicke: the branches are long, tough, and flexible, eafie to be bowed any way, like thofe of the 
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