^ * b. 3. ( Of the Hiftory of Plants. 13 6 1 
or apple, although it feeme tobelikethefe isnotwithRanding of Idler force, iiifomuch as it can- 
not effeffuully performe any of the aforefaid vertues, but hath in it a certaine biting qualitie 
which hurteth.. 
The Torch Pin* cut into (mall pieces and boiled in vineger, is a remedy likewife againft the F 
tooth-ache if the teeth be wafhed with the decodtion. 
Of this there is made a profitable fpather or dice to be vfed in making of compound plaiRers G 
and peflarfes that eafe paine. 
Ofthe fmokeof this is madeablackc which ferueth tomake inkeof,and for eating fores in the H 
corners ofeies.and againft the falling away of the haire of the eie lids, and for watering and bleere 
eies, as Diofcorides teacheth. 
ThcKindcs. 
j /^v Vt of the Pine trees, efpecially of the wilde kinds, there iffueth forth a liquid, whitifh, and 
V^/l'weet fmelling Rofin, and that many times by it felfc ; but more plentifully either out T 
the cut and broken boughes, or forth ofthe body when the treecommeth to be a Torch Pine. 
2 there iffueth alfo forth ofthe crackes and chinkes of the barke, or out of the cut boughes,a 
certaine dry Roll n, and that forth of the Pine Tree or Firre Tree. 
There is likewife found a certaine congealed Rofin vpon the cones or apples. 
It is called in Latine, Refina . in Greeke, ,w.». in high Dutch, J^attf.in low Dutch, : in Ita- 
lian, Ragia in Spanifh, Reftna : in Englilh, Rofin. 
The firfi is named in Latine, Liquicta Refina : in Qreekey™ and of diuers ,<'.nV 7 ra«, that it to 
fay, iffueth out of it felfeiof the Lacedemonians, or Prmif.ua , the firfi flowing Rofin : and 
in Cicilia,K«»*/Au>, as Galen writeth in his third bookeof medicines according to the kindes:in 
llaops Refina Pini t or Rofin ofthe Pine tree, and common Rofin.lt hapneth oftentimes through the 
negligent and careleffe gathering thereof, that certaine fmall pieces of wood, aqd little Rones be 
found mixed with it : this kinde of Rofin (Ja/ewfurnameth as though he fhould fay,confu- 
ied, which being melted and clenfed from the droffe becommeth hard and brittle. 
The like hapneth alfo to another liquid Rofin, which after it is melted, boiled, and cooled a- 
gaine,is hard and brittle,and may likewile be beaten, ground, and fearced ; and this Rofin is named 
m Greeke »,«*■. in Latine, Friffa, and many times Colophon:*, in Greeke, «*>#»>« ■■ which name is vfed 
among the . .pothecaries,and may Rand for an Englifh name ; for Galen in his third bookeof Me- 
dicines according to their kindes faith, that it is called Friffaptneh of fome Colophonia. that, faith he, 
is the drieR Rofin ofall.which fome call Fnlia, others Colophonia: becaufe in times paR,as Diofco. 
rides writeth.it was fetched from Colophon ,this being yellow or blacke in comparifon ofthe refi, is 
whitewhen it is beaten:P/»y in his r 4. booke, 20. chapter. 
Thefecond Rofin is named in Greeke f»® >, fpecially that of the Pitch tree without fatneffe, 
and that foonewaxeth dry , which Galen in his 6. booke of Medicines according to the kindes,cal- 
leth properly ♦»»» wwk»! that which .in A fia is made of the Pitch tree being very white, is called 
Spagns, as Pliny teflifieth. 
The third is called in Greeke h*n rgim . the fame is alfo named VnroraO him , this is vnknowne 
in fhops.Yet there is to be fould a certaine dry Rofin, but the fame is compounded of the Rofins 
of the Pine tree, of the cones or clogs, and of the Firre tree mixed altogetber.which they call Gari- 
pot ■■ this is vfed in perfumes in Read of Frankincenfe, from which notwithfianding it farre diffe- 
reth. 
*]■ The Temperature and Vertues. 
All the Rofins arc hotand dry, but nocall after one manner ; for there is a difference among A 
them : they which be fharper and more biting, are hotter, as that which commeth of the cones, 
■being of Rofins the hotteR, becaufe it is alfo the fharpefl: the Rofin ofthe Pitch Tree is not fo 
much biting, and therefore not fo hot : the Rofin of the Firre tree is in a mcane between them 
both ; the liquid Rofin of the Pine is moificr, comming ncere to the qualitie and facultie of the 
Larch Rofin. 
The Rofins which are burnt or dried, as Diofcorides tefiifieth,are profitable in plaiRers, and com- j> 
pofitions that eafe wearifomeneffe ; for they do not onely fupple or mollifie,but alfo by reafon of 
the thinneffeof their parts and dryneffe, they digeR : therefore they both moUifie and wafl awav 
fwcllings,and through the fame facultie they cure wearifomneffe, being vfed in compound medi- 
cines for that purpofe. 
The liquid Rofins are very fitly mixed in ointments, commended for the healing vp of greene c 
wounds, for they both bring to fuppuration,and do alfo glue and vnite them together. 
Yvyyy 
Morcoucn 
