L i b. 3 . Of the Hiftory of Plants. j 
They glue and heale vp great vlcers in hard bodies : they fafely and without harme foke v D and B 
confume the hid and fecret moifture lying deepeandin the bottome of weake and moift' infir- 
mities. 
The Ieaues and nuts aregood to cure the rupture, to take away the Polypus , being an excrefcence 
growing in the nofe. 
Some do vfe the fame againft carbuncles and eating fores, mixing them with parched Barley D 
mealc. 1 
The Ieaues of Cypres boy led in fweet wine or Mede,helpes the ftrangurie and difficulty of ma- E 
..king water. 1 
1 1 is reported, that the fmoke of the Ieaues doth driue away gnats, and that the clogs do fo like- F 
wife. 
The diallings of the wood laid among garments preferueth them from the moths : the rofinkil- G 
fcth Moths, little wormc-s, and magots. 
t Our Authorin this chapter hath put together two chapters tf'Daiofimt ; the one ofCyprefle, the other of out of Theoobrtflto and others yid.Ptmpt.4r 
i'j ap. j 4r 8 * ’ * 
Chap. 4 6. Of the Tree of Life. 
tvirbor Vita. 
The Tree of Life. 
The Defcription. 
'T'He tree Tree of Life groweth to the height ofa 
*■ fmall tree, the barke being of a darke reddifh 
colour : the timber very hard, the branches fprea- 
ding themfelues abroad, hanging down toward the 
grpund by reafon of the weakeneiTe of the twiggie 
branches furcharged with very oileous and ponde- 
rous Ieaues, cafting, and fpreading themfelues like 
the feathers of a wing, refembling thofe of the Sa- 
uine tree, but thicker, broader, and more fill of gum- 
mie or oileous fubflance: which being rubbed in 
the hands do yeeld an aromatick, fpicie,or gummie 
fauor,very pleafant and comfortable ; amongft the 
Ieaues come forth fmall yellowifh floures,which in 
my garden fall away withoift any fruit : but as it 
hath beene reported by thofe that haue feene the 
fame, there follovveth a fruit in hot regions, much 
like vnto the fruit of the Cypres tree, but fmaller, 
compaft of little and thinne fcales clofely pad one 
vpon another, which my felfe haue not yet feene. 
The branches of this tree laid downe in the earth 
wil veryeafily takeroot,euen like the Woodbinde 
or fome fuch plant; which I haue often proued,antl 
thereby haue greatly multiplied thefe trees. 
The Place. 
This tree groweth not wilde in England, but it groweth in my garden very plentifully. 
«[ The T ime. 
It endureth the cold of our Northerncclymat,yet doth itlofehis gallant greenes in the winter 
moneths : it floureth in my garden about May. 
The Names. 
Theophrajlus and Plmy, as fome thinke,haue called this fweet and aromatical tree Thith, or Thar 
ome call it Cedrtts Lfda : the new writers do terme it Arbor vita : in Englifh,the tree of life, I doe 
rot meane that whereof mention is made,G en .3 . 2 2 . 
The Temperature. 
Both thejeaues and bou ghes be hot and dry. 
TheVertues. 
Among the plants of the New-found land, this Tree, which ThfophrafiusctAhThuia.ov Thua, 
is 
