Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
t 3 Sabina baccataaltera, 
T he leffer berry-bearing Sauin. 
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2 The other Sauin is an high tree, as Bello- 
nim faith, as tall as the Almond tree, and roach 
like to the tame Cypreffetree.-the.bodie is 
writhed, thicke, and fometimes of foo-reat a 
compaffe as that it cannot be fathomed . the 
fubftanceof the wood is red within , as fe that 
of the Iuniper, and of the prickely Cedar : the 
barke is not very thicke,and it is ofa yellowifla 
red : the leaues are ofa maruellous gallant 
greene colour, like to thofe of the Cypres tree 
■ yet thicker or more in number ; in tafte bitter/ 
ofa fpicie fmell, and like Rofin : the boughes 
are broader, and thicke fet as it were with 
wings, like thofe of the Pitch tree and of the 
Yew tree: on which grow a great number of 
berries, very round like thofe of the little Ce- 
dars,which at the firft are green, but when they 
be ripe they are of a blackifh blew. Out of the 
root hereof iffueth oftentimes a rofin , which 
being hard h like to that of the Iuniper tree 
and doth alfo crumble in the chewing. 
t 3 There isanother, which differs from 
the laft deferibed onely in that the leaues are 
fmallerandldfe pricking than thofeof the for- 
mer, as alfo the branches leffer : Lobcl calls 
this Sauina baccata altera, f 
% The Place. 
Both ofthem grow vpon hills in woods, and 
in other like vntoiled places, as in Candy, My- 
fia,and ellewhere. P .Bellonins reporteth that he 
found them both vpon the tops of the moun- 
raines Taurus, Amanus, and Olympus. 
The firft is planted in our Englifh gardens almofteuery where: the fecond is planted both by 
the feed and by the flip : the flips muft be fet in a ground that is meanly ruoift and fhadowie, till 
they haue takenroot : the (hrubs which grow of thefedecline toward the one fide, retaining ftill 
the nature of the bough :but that Sauin which is planted by the feed groweth morevpright/. this 
in continuance of time bringeth forth feed s, and the other for the molt part remaines barren /both 
thefe grow in my garden. 
^y The Time. 
They both continue alwaies greene: the one is found to be loden with ripe fruit commonly in 
Winter, but it hath fruit at all times ; for before the old berries fall, new are come vp. 
^y The Names. 
Sauine is called in Greeke or .• in Latine, Sabina. 
The firft is commonly called in the Apothecaries (hops by the name Sauina : ofdiuers, Sauime 2 
ra the Italians and Spaniards keepe the Latine name : it is called in high-Dutch, Albert biltltlt % 
in Iow-Dutch, Mattel boom t in French, Sauenitr : in Englifh, common Sauine, or garden Sauine/ 
Some name the other Cuprejfus Crctica, or Cypres of Gandy, as Pliny faith Jib. i i "cap. 1 7. making 
mention of a tree called Brut a : fome there are that take this to be altera Sabina , or the fecond Sa- 
uin, and to be read Bruta for b^sv, Brathu, by altering of the vowels. For it isdeferibed by Plin.li. 12. 
cap. 1 7. to be like the Cypreffe tree, in thefe words ; They feekein the mountaine Elimari the tree 
Brut, t, being like to the broad Cypres tree,hauing white boughes, yeelding afivcetfmell when it 
is fet on fire ; whereof mention is made with a miracle, in the (lories of Claudius Cajar. It is repor- 
ted that the Parthians do vfe the leaues in drinks ; that the fmell is very like to that of the Cypres 
tree, and that the fmoke thereof is a remedieagainft other woods. It groweth beyond Pafitigris 
Jieere vnto thetowne Sittaca,on mount Zagrus. Thus far Pliny. 
The mountaines Elimtei are deferibed by Strabo in the countrey of the Affyrians, next after the 
mountaine Sagrus aboue the Babvlonians ; by Ptolommts not far from the Perfian gulfe : therefore it 
' is hard to fay that Bruta is Sabina altera^ or the fecond Sauine, feeing that fo great a diftance of the 
place may vndoubtedly caufe a d ifference, and that it is not largely but briefely deferibed- It fee- 
n'eth that Thy a mentioned by T hcophrajlus is more like vnto Sauine : but yet forafmuch as Thy a is 
like in fruit to the Cypres tree, and not to the fruit or berries of the little Cedars, it is alfo verie 
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