'IB. 3. 
Of the Hiflory of Plants. 
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Oziar ; whereupon do grow leaues like thofe of the precedent, but longer.and little or nothin^ ; n _ 
dented about the edges : the fruit groweth in frnall cups as the Acornes doe : they are leffer Than 
thofe of the other kinde, as is the reft of the tree, wherein is the ehicfeft difference. $ This varies 
in the leafe, (as you may fee in the figure) which in fome is fnipt about the edge, in other fome nor 
at all. 
1 . 7 . S uber Inti folium (f angnjlifolimn. 
1 he Corke tree with broad and narrow leaues. 
f The Place. 
It groweth in the Countrey of Aquitania,neere to the mountair.es called Pyrenat i : it alfo grow.’ 
cth plentifully in the kingdomes of Spaine, differing fomewhat from that of Aquitania,as Cluftttt 
declareth : it is likewife found in Italy, and that in the territorie of Pifa, with a longer leafe, and 
fharper pointed ; and about Rome with a broader, and cut in the edges like a faw, and rougher, as 
Matthiolus teftifieth. 
*J The Time. 
TheleauesofthefirftarealwaiesgreeneinSpaineandltaly, about the Pyrensan mountaines 
they fall away in Winter. 
*[ The Names. 
This tree is called in Greeke • ■■ in Latin eSuhcr : in French, Liege .■ in Italian , Stigaro : the 
fame names do alfo belong to the barke : the Spaniards call the tree Alcorvwque : the Englifhmen, 
Corke tree , and the barke, Corcha de i^Alcornoque ; whereupon the Low-countrey men and Englifh 
men alfo do call it Corke ; and yet it is called in low-Dutch alfofLTlOtljOUt. 
TheTcmferatureandVertues. 
This barke doth manifeftlydry,witli a binding facultie. 
Being beaten to pouderand taken in water it ftancheth bleeding in any part of the body. The 
Corke which is taken out of wine veffels, faith Paulas, being burnt, maketh afhes which do migh- 
tily dry, and are mixed in compofitions diuifed againft the'bloudy Six'. 
Corke isalfoprofitable formany things : itisvfed (faithP/i»y) about the anchors of fhips,Fi- q 
fliers nets, and to flop veffels with • and in Win ter for womens fhooes,which vferemaines with vs 
cuentothis day: fifhermen hang this barke vpon the wings of their nets for feareof finking .-and 
! hop-makers put it in ihooes and pantofles for warmneffe lake, 
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