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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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C h a t. 37. Of the faH tree . 
TheKmdes. 
O F trees that bring forth Galls there be diuers forts, as may appeare by the diners formes end 
forts of Galls fet forth in this prefent chapter, which may feme for their feueralldiftindti- 
ens, whereof fome bring forth Acornes likewife,and fome nothing but Galls : the figures 
of fome few of the trees fhall giuc you fufficient knowledge of the reft : for all the Acorne or Mali 
trees bring forth Galls, but thofe trees whofe figures we haue fet forth do beare thofe Galls fit lor 
medicine, and to thicken skins with. • 
Diofcorides and Galen make but two forts of Galls • the one little, yellow, full of holes, and more 
fpongie in the inner part, both of them round, hauing the forme of a little ball, and the other 
Imooth andcuen on the out fide : fince, the later wrirers haue found moe, fome hauing certain lit- 
tle knobs flicking forth, like in forme to the Gall, which doth alfoclcaue and grow without ftalke 
to the leafe. There is alfo found a certaine excrefcenceofalight greene colour, fpongie and wa- 
terie, in the middle whereof now and then is found a little flic or worme: which loft ball in hot 
oountries doth oftentimes become hard, like the little fmooth Gall, as Tbeopbrnflus faith. 
S G alia, put Robur maim. 
The great Gall tree. 
^ j Rob nr, ft tie Galla major altera. 
Another great Gall tree. 
The Defiriptitn, 
or body,where- 
b road, and nic- 
1 ^T’He Gall tree growes vp to a fufficient height, hauing a very farre trunk < 
I on are placed long tw iggy branches bunging forth very faire 
ked in the edges 1 ike the teeth of a faw •• among which come forth acornes , al though 
the figure expreffe not the fame, like thofe of the Oke, and likewife a wooddy excrefcence, which 
we name the Gall, hauing certaine fmall eminences or bunches pn the out fide, growing for the 
moft part vpon the flender branches without {talks, and fom times they grow a e ■ 
which by the heate of the Sun are harder, greater, and more folua m one cc 
inn- and rlvmaf. 
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at the ends thereof; 
countrey than another, 
