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Of the History of Plants. 
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L There is madeofthis and ofoilecf Linefeed, mixed together, a liquor called Vernifh, which 
is vfed to beautifie pidures and painted tables with, and to make iron glitter, and to defend it from 
the ruft- 
Chap. 451. Of the prickly Qedar t or (fedar lumper. 
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HP He prickly Cedar tree is like to Iuniper, and is called the fmallor little Cedar, for difference 
* from the great and tall Cedar, which bringeth Cones ; and of this there are two kindes, as 
Thuphrafim and Pliny do teftifie,that is to fay, one of Lycia, and another crimfon. 
^y The Dcfcription. 
x rp He Crimfon or prickly Cedar feemeth to be very like to the Iuniper tree in body 
and boughes,which are writhed, knotty, and parted into very many wings : thcfub- 
ftanceofthe wood is red, and fweetoffmell like that of the Cypreffe ; the tree is co- 
uered ouer with a rugged barke : the leaues be narrow and fliarpe pointed, harder than thcrfe of Iu- 
niper, (harper and more pricking, and ftanding thinner vpon the branches : the fruite or berry is 
fometimes as big as a hafell nut, or, as Theophraflus faith, of the bigneffe of Myrtle berries, and be- 
ing ripe it is of a reddifh yellow, or crimfon colour, fweet of fmell, and fo pleafant in ta(Ie,as euen 
the countrey-men now and than do eate of the fame with bread. 
1 Oxycedrut Phoenicia. 
Crimfon prickly Cedar. 
3 Oxycedrut Lycia. 
Rough Lycian Cedar. 
2 The other low Cedar which growes in Lycia is not fohigh as the former, hailing likewTfe a 
writhed body as big as a mans arme, full of boughes . the barke is rough, yellowifh without, and 
red within : the leaues ftand thicker, like at the firft to thofe of Iuniper, but yet fomewhat fhor- 
ter,and in the third or fourth yeere thicker, long and round withall, comming neere to the leaues 
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