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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
Chap. 44. Of the Larch Tree , 
fl TheDcfcription. 
T He Larch is a tree of no frnall height, with a body growing firaight vp:the bark wlier- 
of in the nether part beneath the boughes is thicke, rugged.and full of chinks ; which 
being cut in funder is red within, and in the other part aboue fmooth, flipperie, fome- 
thing whitevvithout : it bringeth forth many boughes diuided into other IclTer branches,which be 
toughand pliable. The leaues are fmall,and cut into many iags, growing in clutters thicke toge- 
ther like taffeds, which fall away at theapproch of Winter : the floures or rather the firft fhewes of 
the cones or fruit be round, and grow out of the tendereft boughes, being at 'the length of abraue 
red purple colour : the cones be (mall, and like almoft in bignefle to thofeof the Cyprette tree, but 
longer,andmadevpofamultitudeofthinfcales like leaues : vnder which lie fmall feeds, hauing 
a thin velme growing on them very like to the wings of Bees and wafps :the fubttanccof the wood 
is very hard,of colour, efpecially that in the midft,fomewhat red, and very profitable for workes of 
long continuance. 
It is not true that the wood of the Larch tree tree cannot be fet on fire, as Vitruvius reporteth of 
the cattle made of Larch wood, which Cxfrr befieged^for it burneth in chimncies,and is turned in- 
to coles, which are very profitable for Smithes, as Matthiolus writeth. 
There is al(b gathered of the Larch tree a liquid Ro(in,very like in colour and fubftancetotbe 
whiter hony,as that of Athens or of Spaine,which notwithftanding ittueth not forth ofit felfe,buc 
runneth out of the ftccke of the tree, when it hath been bored euen to the heart with a great and 
long auger and w imble. 
Ga/£» writeth, that there be after a fort two kindes hereof, in his 4. bookeof Medicines, accor- 
ding to the kinds, one like vnto Turpentine, the other more lharper than this, hotter, more liquid 
Yyyyy's of 
1 Laricis famulus, 
A branch of the L arch tree. 
2 Lurix cum Agttricofuo. 
The Larch tree with his Agarick. 
