L i b< 3, 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
C h a p, 41. Of the Tine Tree 1 
<f The Kindcs. 
T He Pine Tree is of two forts, according to Theophrafius • the one Wo that is to fay,tame, or of 
* the garden^the other *>«, or wilde:he faith that the Macedonians do adde a third, which is W»»c. 
or barren, or without fruit, that vnto vs is vnknowne : the later writers haue found moe as fhall be 
declared. 
Pinm fstiva, five domejlica. The Dcficription. 
The tame or manured Pine tree. 
T HePine tree groweth high, and great in 
the trunk or bodie, which below is naked, 
butaboueit is clad with a multitude of 
boughes, which diuidethemfeluesintodiucis 
branches, whereon are fet fmall leaues, vc-rie 
ftraight,narrow,fomwhat hard and (harp poin- 
ted : the wood or timber is hard, heauy, about 
the heart or middle ful ofanoileous liquor,& 
of a reddifh colour; the fruit or clogs are hard 
great, and confift of many found woody fcales* 
vnder which are included certaine knobs, with- 
out fhape,couered with a woodden (hell, like 
fmall nuts, wherein are white kerneIs,Iong, ve- 
ry fweet,and couered with a thin skin or mem- 
brane, that eafily is rubbed offwith the fingers- 
which kerncll is vfed in medicine. 
•I The Place. 
This treegroweth ofit felfe in many places 
of Italic, and efpecially in the territorieof Ra- 
uenna,and in Languedock, about Marfiles, in 
Spain, & in other regions, as in the Eaft coun- 
tries. it is alfo cheriihed in the gardens ofplea- 
fure,as well in the Low-countries as England. 
The Time. 
The Pine tree groweth grcene both winter 
and Sommer: the fruit it commonly twoyeres 
before it be ripe:wherfore it is not to be found 
without ripe fruit, and alfo others as yet verie 
fmalfand not come to ripenefle. 
The Names. 
Ins called in Latine, and Pinmfanua,Vr banjos rather M.wfueta : in Engli(h,tame and gar- 
? n . , in £' ofthe Macedonians and other Grecians,™*. butthe Arcadians name it mWsfor that 
winch the Macedonians call »»«*Wt,the Arcadians name «v Jt ,as Theephrajlus faith,and fodoth the 
tame Pine in Arcadia, and about Elia change her name : and by this alteration of them it happens 
that the fruit or Nuts of the Pine tree found in the Cones or Apples, be named in Greeke by Dior. 
Pine tree W,P<, * te,and otllers > w ' ft '- as tli0u g h they fhould terme it Pityosfiucluspt the frdit of the 
There is alfo another in Latine Picea, or the Pitch tree, which differeth much from the Pine 
tree : but Pytis of Arcadia diifereth nothing from the Pine tree, as wehaue faid. 
. The fruit or apples ofthefe be called in Greeke «»»i. and in Latin eCorsi • notwithftanding fionos 
is a common name to all the fruits ofthefe kind of trees: they alfo be named in Latine, Nuces pine*.- 
by Mnefitheusm Greeke wp*itn. bv Diodes Caryfiius^m eWwhich be notwithftanding the fruit or 
clogges of the tree that 7 heophrafitis nameth or thewilde Pine tree, as ^4then*uf{, aith. It is 
thought that the whole fruit is called by Gaits in his 4. CommentarievponflVtwivittr Bookesof 
-Diet in fharpe d'uea{es,Strobilos : yet inhis a.booke of the Facultiesof Nouriihmentsheedoth 
not call Corns or the apple by the name of Strobiles , but the nuts contained in it. And in like man- 
ner in his feuenth book of the Faculties of Simple medicines 3 the Pine Apple fruit, faith he, which 
they 
