1 4 io Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 3. 
The Time. 
The wilde Laarell is euer greene, and may oftentimes be feene mod part of the winter and the 
beginning of the fpring,with thefloures and ripe berries growing both at one feafon. ’ ' 
The. Names. 
It is called in LatineT«?^,and Laura fyluejirir in Greeke,*'*.. e >f „ : Catonameth it Taurus Muid 
tica : in lta.lizn,Lauro fyluatico .■ in Spamfh, Vua dc Perro , otherwife Follado . and of diners Durillo • 
in Englifh wilde Bay. ’ 1 
If The Temperature and Vertues. 
Pliny nor any other of the Antients haue touched the faculties of this wilde Bay, neither hau~ 
we any vnderftanding thereof by the later writers, or by our owne experience. 
Chap. jo. Of the ‘Box Tree. 
nr’ He great Box is a faire tree.bearing a great 
■* bodyortrunke: the wood or timber is yel- 
low and very hard , and fit forfundryworkes 
haumg many boughes and hard branches, befet 
. with (undry fmall hard green Icaues, both win- 
ter and Sommer like the Bay tree: the floures 
are very little, growing among the Ieaues, of a 
greene colour : which being vaded there fuc- 
ceed fmall blacke fhining berries, of the bignes 
of the feeds of Corianders, which are inclofed 
in round greenifhhuskes, hailing three feet or 
- legs like a bra (Te or boiling pot: the root is like- 
wife yellow, and harder than the timber, but of 
greater beauty, and more fit for dagger haftes, 
boxes, and fuch like vfes, whereto the trunke or 
body feruetb,than tomake medicines .though 
foolifh empericks and women !eaches,domini- 
fter itagainft the Apoplexie and fuch difeales: 
i urnersand Cutlers, if I miftake not themat- 
ter,do call this wood D udgeon,wherwith they 
make Dudgeon hafted daggers. 
There is alfo a certaine. other kinde hereof, 
growing low,and nor abouehalfe a yard high, 
but it (preadeth all abroad : the branches here- 
of are many and very {lender: the Ieaues bee 
round, and ofa light greene. 
The Place. 
BuxusflT the Box tree groweth vpon fundry waite and barren hils in England, and in diuers gar- 
dens. 
The Time. 
The Box tree groweth greene winter and Sommer : it flourethin Februarieand March, and the 
feed is ripe in September, 
'. . . f The Names. 
The Grecians call it w?«. in Latine,£«.v«r .• in high Dutch, 23ucllf?bauin t in low Dutch, (gut* 
boom X in 1 taljan,^ : in Englifh, Box tree. 
The Idler may be cal led and in Latin e,Humi Buxus, or H tim'd is g uxus : in Englifh, dwarf 
Box, or ground Box, and it is commonly called Dutch Box. 
The Temperature and Vertues. 
■A f he Icaues o, the Box tree are hot,drie,and aftringent,of an euill and lotbfome finell,not vfed in 
medicine, but onely as I fa id before in the defeription. 
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