Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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and oilous in fubftance, and of a plcafant fauour:this plant bearethan empty cod, or crooked 
home fomewhat reddifh, wherein are found (mail flies, wormes or gnats, bred and ingendred Ofa 
certame humorous matter, which cleaueth to the inner iides of the faid cods or homes which 
wormes bftue nophyficallvieatall. The right Turpentine iiTueth out of the branches of thefe 
trees, if you do cut or wound them, the which is faire and cleere, and better than that which is ga- 
thered from the barke of the lirre tree. fc 
2 The fecond kindeof Turpentine treeisvery likevnto the former, but that it groweth not 
fo great : yet the leaues are greater and broader, and of the fame fafhion, but very like to the leaues 
of the Piftacia tree. The berries are firft ot a fcarlet colour, and when they be ripe ofa skie co- 
lour. The great horned cods are (harpe pointed, and fomewhat cornet ed, confifting as it were of 
the fubftance ofgriftles. And out ol thofe bladdets being broken, do creepeand come fmall flies 
or gnats, bred ofa fuliginous excrement, and ingendred "in thofe bladders. The tree doth alio 
yeeld his Turpentine by dropping like the former. 
Thefe trees grow, as Viofcoridcs faith, in Iurie, Syria, Cyprus, Africke, and in the Iflands called 
Cyclades . Bellomm reporreth that there are found great ftore of them in Syria, and Cilicia, and are 
brought from thence to Damafcus to be fold. Clufius faith, that it grovves of it felfe in Laiwue 
docke, and in very many places of Portingale and Spaine,but for the moft part like a fhrub and 
without bearing Turpentine. 5 
Thtopl'raftut writeth.that it groweth about the hill Ida, and in Macedonia, (hort ; in manner o r a 
fhrub, and writhed • and in Damafcus and Syria great, in manner ofa fmall tree : he alfo fetteth 
downe a certaine male Turpentine tree, and a female : the male, faith he, is barren, and the female 
fruitful!. And ofthefehemaketh the one with a berry red at the firlt,of the bignefleofa Lentill 
which cannot come toripenes; and the other with the fruitgreeneat the firft, afterwards fome- 
what ofa yellowifh red, and in the end blacke, waxing ripe in the fpring,of thebignefle of the 
Grecians Beane, and rofenny. 0 0 
He alfo writeth of a certaine Indian Turpentine tree, that is to fay ,a tree like in boughesand 
leaues to the right Turpentine tree, but differing in fruit, which is likevnto Almonds. ° 
Tbeflouresofthe Turpentine tree come forth in the fpring together with the newbuds-the 
berries are ripe in September and 06lober,in the time of Grape gathering. The homes appeare 
about the fame time. “ 
The Rolin is furnamed n P w>&‘>»: in Latine, Terebinthina : in'high Dutch, in En<r- 
hfh. Turpentine, and right Turpentine : in the Arabian language Albotin,\vho nafae the flint 
Gr arum vinde , or greene berries. ^ 
cond degree, and being greene they dry moderately , but when they are diyed they dry in the fe- 
conddegeeejand the fruit approacheth more neere to thofe that be dry inthe third degree and 
alio hotter. This is fit to be eaten, as D/ofcondes faith, but it hurteth the ftomacke. ’ 
B . Itprouoketh vrine,helpeth thofe that haue bad fpleenes, and isdrunkeinvvine againftthebi- 
tings of the poyfonfome fpiders called Phalanyia. 
Q The Rolin ot the I urpentire tree cxcelleth all other Rofins, according to Viofcorides his opini- 
ti'On: but Galen writeth, that the Rofin of the mafticke tree beareth the preheminence and then 
tne Turpentine. 3 
L .T h!s 5°(' n hath alfo an afttingent ot binding facultie,and vet not fo much as mafticke . hut it 
«1 The Platt. 
' The Time. 
ff The Names. 
This tree is called in Greeke rffr«3»<,and alfo many times .• in Lat'me^Terebimhus : in Itali- 
an, 1 ere bait ho : in Spanifh, Cornicabra : in French, 7 crebmte : in Englifh , Turpentine tree : the Ara- 
A The barke, leaues, and fruit of the T urpentine tree do fomewhat binde, they are hot in the (e- 
rnnH n orrs-nn /ui.-l . ..1 1 . i ■ i • * . . ■ 
*1 The Temperature andVertues. 
The 
