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Of theHiftoryof Plants. 
Lib. 3. 
tlier doth it rot nor wax old, nor cleaueth or choppeth it felf. Theleauesare long, round Jikethofe 
of Tamariske, but fuller of fubftancc. The fruit or nuts do hang vpon the boughes, being in man- 
ner like to thofe of the Larch tree, but yet thicket and moreclolely compad .-which being ripe do 
of thcmfelues part in funder, and then falleth the feed, which is lhaken out with the winde: the 
fame is fmall, flat, very thin, of a fwart ill fauoured colour, which is pleafant to Ants or Pifmires, 
and ferueth them lor food. 
Of this diners make two kindes, the female and the male ; the female barren, and the male fruit- 
full. Theophraftm reported}, that diners affirme the male tocomeof the female. The Cyprelfe 
yeelds forth a certaine liquid Iloiin,like in fubftancc to that of the Larch tree,bnt in tafte maruel- 
lous fharpe and biting. 
Thewilde Cyprelfe, as Theophrajluswuteth, is an high tree, and alwaies greene,fo like to the 
other Cyprelfe, as it feemethto be the fame both in boughes, body,Ieaues,and fruit, rather than a 
certaine wtlde Cyprelfe : the matter or fubftancc of the wood is found, ofa fweet fmell,like that of 
the Cedar tree, which rottetb not : there is nothing fo crifped as the root, and therefore they vfe to 
make precious and coftly workes thereof. 
| 1 know no difference betweene thewilde and tame Cyprelfe of our Authonbut in the hand- 
fomnelfe of their growth, which is helped lomewhat by art. £ 
The Place. 
The tame and manured Cyprelfe groweth in hot countries, as in Candy, Lycia, Rhodes, and alfo 
in the territorieof Cyrene : it is reported to be likewife found on the hills belonging to Mount 
Ida, and on the hills called Latent hat is to fay white, the tops whereof be alwaies cottered with 
fnow. Bellonius denieth it to be found vpon the tops of thefe hillsy-fatit in the bottoms on the rough 
parts and ridges of the hills : it groweth likewife in diners places of England where it hath beene 
planted, as at Sion a place neere London, fometime a houfe ofMunnes .- it groweth alfo at Green- 
wich, and atothcr places, and likewife at Hampfted in the garden of M r . JVade,o ne of the Clerkes 
of her Maiefties priuy Councell. ‘ ■ 
Thewilde kinde of Cyprelfe tree groweth hard by Ammons Temple, and in other parts of the 
countrey of Cyrene vpon the tops of mountaines,and in extremecold countries. Bellonius affir- 
meth, that there is found a certaine wilde Cyprelfe alfo in Candy,whichisnotfohigh as other 
Cyprelfe trees, nor growetlrtharpe toward the top, but is lower, and hath his boughes fpred flat, 
round about in compalfe: he faith the body thereof is alfo thicker but whether this be Thy a, of 
which Tbcopbrajhts and Pliny make mention, we leaue it to confideration. 
The Time. 
The tame Cypres tree is ahvaies greene ; the frnit may be gathered thrice a yearc, in Ianuarie, 
May, and September, and therefore it is fyrnamed Trifera. 1 
The wilde Cypres tree is late, and very long before it buddeth. 
The Thames. 
The tame Cypres is called in Greeke, k «*?(<««, or ■. in Larine, Cuprcfw .■ in (hops, Cyprcf- 
frs in Italian, Cyprejfo : in French and S parti lb, Cipres : in high- Dutch, Cip£C(TctlbautU : in low- 
Dutch,Cj’PJCftfe bOOttl jin Englifh, Cypres, and Cypres tree. 
The fruit is named in Greeke, nmtm* ■■ in Latine, Pilula Cuprejsi, Nuces Cuprcjsi,and Ga/lu- 
li : in (hops, Mate.) Cyprejs/ : in Englilh, Cypres nuts or clogs. This tree in times paft was dedica- 
ted to Pluto, and was faid to be deadly ; whereupon it is thought that the fliadotv thereof is vnfor- 
tunate. 
Thewilde Cypres tree is called in Greeke, s»-« ors£<>, and : from this doth differ being a 
name not of a plant, but of a mortar in which dry things are beaten : T by a, as Pltpy writeth,//£. 1 3 . 
cap. : 6 . was well knowne to Homer : he fheweth that this is burned among the fweet fmells, which 
Circe was much delighted withal!, whom he would haue to be taken fora goddeffe, to their blame 
that call fweet and odoriferous fmells,euenall of them, by that name ., becaufe he doth efpecially 
make mention withal 1 in one verle, of Cedrus and Thy a ■ the copies haue falfly Larix, or Larch tree, 
in which it is manifeft that he fpakeonely of trees : the verfe is extant in the fiftbookeo [odyjfes, 
where he mentioneth, that Mercuric by /apifencommandement went to Calypfus. den, and that he 
did fmell the burnt trees Thy a and Cedrus a great way off. 
Theophraftus attributed] great honor to this tree, fhewingthat the roofs of old Temples became 
famous by reafon of that wood, and that the timber thereof, of which the rafters arc made is euer- 
lafting, and it is not hurt there by rotting, cobweb, nor any other infirmitie or corruption. 
qy The Temperature. 
The fruit and leaucs ofthe Cypres ate dry in the third degree, and aftringent. 
«(] ThcVertties. 
A 1 he Cypres nuts being damped and drunken in wine, as Diofcoridx wrireth, ftoppetli thelaske 
and bloudy flix it is goodagainft the fpitting ofbloud and all other i flues of bloud. 
They 
