Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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I Piceamaior. 
The Pitch tree. 
$ 2 Picea pumila. 
The dwarfe Pitch tree. 
•J The Place'. 
The Pitch tree groweth in Greece, Italy, France, Germanie, and all the cold 
Rulfia. 
regions euenvnto 
The Time. 
The fruit of the Pitch tree is ripe in the end of September. 
«[[ The Names. 
The Grecians call this Cone tree w'tw: the Latines, picea, and not Pi mis . for Pinus or thePine 
tree, is the Grecians *>.«» , as fhall be declared : that »v»< is named in Latine Picea , Scribonius Lae- 
gus teftifieth, in his 20 1 Compofition, writing after this manner ; Reftrta Pet met a, id eft, ex Picea ar- 
hore, which (ignifies in Engliih, of the Rofin of the tree Pitys, that is to fay, of the Pitch tree. With 
him doth Pliny agree, lib.i 6 . cap. io. where he tranflating T heopheaftxs his words concerning Peace 
m&Pitys, doth tranflate Pitys, Picea, although for Peace he hath written Larix, as (hall be declared. 
Pliny vvriteth thus • Larix vJUsradicibus non refullulat : and the Larch tree doth not fpring vp againe 
wheji the roots are burnt : the Pitch tree fpringeth vp againe, as it hapned in Lesbos, when the 
wood Pyrthdm was fet on fire. Moreouer, the wormes Pityocamp*. are fcarce found in any tree but 
onely in the Pitch tree, as Belloeiius teftifieth : fo that they are not rafhly called Pityocampa , or the 
wormes ofthe Pitch tree, although moft Tranflators name them Pinerum eruca, or the the wormes 
ot the Pine trees : and therefore Pitys is firnamed by Theophraftus, becaufe wormes and tna- 
8° t ^ are brcd in it. But forfomuch as the name Pitys is common both to the tame Pine, and alfrfto 
Ti 1 L A 1 ™’ diucrS ° f tlle laK vvriters do for this caufe iuppofe, that the Pitch tree is named by 
bcoph'-ajhts mr „ or the wilde Pine tree- This Picea is named in high- Dutch, 
IJPoauni . and Iftot ^annebSIllflt, and oftentimes al Co 5 which name notwithftanding 
doth alio agree with other plants : in Englifh, Pitch tree : inlow-Dutch, bOOJW, 
TheTempeeatuee and Vertues. 
The Ieaues, barke, and fruit ofthe Pitch tree, are all of one nature, vertue, and operation, and of 
the (ame facultie with the Pine trees. 
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