Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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£hamarhododcndros AlfigWi, 
DwarfeRofeBay. 
L aunts. 
The Bay tree.' 
the hils as ye go from Trent to Verona, which 
in Iune and Iuly are as it were couered with 3 
fcarlet coloured carpet, of an odoriferous fa- 
uor, and dele&able afpeft, which being fallen 
there commeth feed and faire berries like A- 
Jfaragtes. 
The Place. 
The place and time are exprefledin the tie- 
feription. 
The Names. 
This may be called in Engliih, Dwarfs 
Rofe Bay of the Alps. I find not any thi ng ex- 
tant of thevertues.fo that I am conftrained to 
Jeaue the reft vnto your owne diferetion. 
7 The other pi ant our Author formerly defetibed in this chapter in the 
J.placeby the namcof ChmAiododendroi montma,! haue hcreomitted,bccaure 
hefetit forth before by thenameof Sj/r/»Jrtfw,£iuinga.fi°urei 
3ad anc defcrip tion,in the 1 j . and 1 2. places of ihc 8 -chap, of this j.Bookc. 
Chap. 68. Of the'Baj) or 
Laurell treet 
The D e feription 
i »-pHe Bay or Laurell tree commeth 
X oftentimes to the height of a tree 
of a mean bignefle ; it is full of bougbes,coue- 
redwithagreene barke : theleaues thereof 
are long,broad,hard, of colour greene,fweet- 
ly fmelling.and in tafte fomwhat bitter : the 
floures alongft the boughes and leaues are of 
a greene colour : the berries are more long 
than round, and be couered with a black rind 
or pill : the kernell within is clouen into two 
parts, like that of the Peach and Almond, and 
other fuch , of a browne yellowifh colour, 
fweet offmelfin tafte fomewhat bitter, with 
a little iharpe or b iting qualitie. 
2 There is alfo a certaine other kinde 
hereof more like to a fhrub, fending forth out 
of the roots many offfprings, which notwith- 
ftanding groweth not fo high as the former ^ 
andthebarkesof the boughes be fomewhat 
red the leaues be alfo tenderer , and not fo 
hard: in other things not vnlike. 
Thefe two Bay trees Viofcorides was not 
ignorant of ; for he faith, that the one is nar- 
row leafed, and the other broader leafed, or 
rather harder leafed which is more like. 
«|j The Place. 
The Laurell or bay tree groweth natural- 
~ ly in 
