L i b. 3* Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 1375 
of the Cypres tree, or of tfie fecond Sauine, that is, 
blunt, and not pricking at all, which being bruifed’ 
betweene the fingers do yeeld a very pleafant fmel : 
fo doth one and the fclfe fame plant bring forth be- 
low iharpeand prickly leaues,andaboue thick and 
blunt ones, as that notable learned Herbarift Glttjf- 
us hath mod diligently obferued : the fruit or berry 
is round like that of Iuniper,of colour yellow when 
it is ripe, inclining to a red,in tafte fomwhat bitter, 
butfweet offmell. 
t 3 This alfo hath Cyprelfe-like leaues, not 
vnlike thofe of the laft deferibed , yet fomwhat 
thicker and broader : the fruit is alfo much larger, 
being as big asHafell nuts, and of aredorskarlet 
colour ; whence Label calleth it Cedrus Phoenicia al- 
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f The Place. 
The prickely Cedar with the crimfon colour 
commethvp higher and greater in certaine places 
of Italy, Spaine, and Alia, and in other Countries • 
for that which grows on mount Garganus in Apulia ■ 
is much higher and broader than thofe that grow 
elfewhere,and bringeth forth greater berries,of the 
bigneffe of an hafell nut,andfweeter,asthat moft 
diligent writer Bellonites reporteth. Cantus Clufltis 
fheweth, that the prickely Cedar and theluniper 
tree be of fo great a growth in diuers places of 
Spaine, as he hath obferued, as that the body of 
them is as thicke as a man. 
The Lycian Cedar is found in Prouence of 
France, not far from Maffilia,and groweth in a great 
part of Greece, in ULyricum and Epirum. 
The Time. 
Both of them arc alwaies greene, and in W inter alfo full of fruit, by reafon that they continual- 
ly bring forth berries, as when the old do fall new come in their places : in the fpring grow vp new 
budsand beginnings of berries : in Autumne they wax ripe the fecond yeare, as doe the berries of 
Iuniper. 
The Names. 
They ate called in Latine, Minores, and Humiles Cedri , little and low Cedars, for difference from 
the tall and great Cedar which beareth Cones. 
The former is named in Greeke, ’oj.Wep,, and us&i .■ in Latine, 0 xycedrus ,and Cedrus Purina: 
in Englifh, Prickly Cedar, and Crimfon Cedar: Pliny fyrnameth it Phcenicea,oi the crimfon co- 
lour of the fruit ; the Spaniards call this alfo Enebro, as CUfius teftifieth, euen by the fame name 
which they giue to the Iuniper: wherein likewife they are thought to imitate diuers of the old 
Writers,vvhohaue not by names diftinguifhed the Iuniper from the Cedar, but haue,as Theophra- 
Jlus noteth, called them Cedros, Cedar trees; yet with an addition, 'oj^eK, or prickly Cedar. 
The other with the blunt leafe is named by Theophrafius, ae^utest , of Pliny alfo, Lycia Cedrus 
in Prouince of France, Morticinc • diuerS name this Sabina, and vfeit in (lead of Sauine, which they 
want ; as the Apothecaries of Epidaurus, and in diuers cities of Greece, and alfo in Illyricum and 
Epirum, as Hellonius teftifieth. Some would haue it tobe ai«. Thya- but Thya, according to Theo- 
phrafius, is like, not onely in body, leaues, and boughes,but in fruit alfo, to the Cypreffe tree, but 
the fruit of this is nothing like to the Cyprefle Cones. 
The fruit of this Cedar is named by Theophrafius, ru t „, Cedris : notwithftanding Cedrus , as hee 
himfelfe doth alfo teftifie (Gaza nameth it Credula) is acertaine little fhrub which neuer groweth 
to a tree. 
The gum or liquor which iffueth forth of the prickly Cedar is alfo called P'erisix, and is fold in 
ftead thereof. 
TheTemperaUfreandVertues. 
The little Cedar, as Galen writeth, is hot and dry in a manner in the third degree : the matter or & 
fubftance thereof is fweet of fmell, like that oiTuniper, and is vied for perfumes and odoriferous 
fmells together with the leaues. 
t 3 Cedrus Lycia altera. 
The other Lycian Cedar. 
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