Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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Chap. 1 03 . 0/ the Qitron,Limon ) Ormge ) and zAjIyrian 
Jpple trees „ 
•y The Kindcs. 
T H j Cifron tree; is of Jcindred with the Limon tree, the Orange is of the fame houfeor flocked 
and the A (Tynan Apple tree ciaimeth aplaceasneereft inkinred and neighbourhood: where* 
ore I intend to comprehend them ali in this one chapter. 
The Description. 
1 He Citron tree is notvery great, hauing many boughes or branches, tough and pliable: 
couered with a greene barke : whereon do grow greene leaues,long,fomewhat broad, ve- 
ry mooth,and fweet oflmell like thofe of the Bay tree : among which come forth here and there 
certaine prickles, fet far in funder : from the bofome whereof come forth fmal floures.confifting of 
hue little ieaues,ofa white colour tending to purple, with certaine threds like haires growing in 
the middle: the fruit is long, greater many times than the Cucumber, often leffer , and not much 
I c Malus medica. 
The Pome C itron tree* 
2 Mains Limonitt, 
TheLimon tree. 
grea ert an the Limon : the barkeorrinde isof a light golden colour, fet with diuers knobs or 
umps, an o a 'cry pleafanc fmell : the pulpeor fubftancenexcvnto it is thick, white, hard, hauing 
a -inde of aromaticall or fpicie fmell.alraoft without any tafteatall : thefofterpulpe within that 
isnot o me or fond, but more fpungie, and full ofafower iuice, in which the feed Jieth hid, grea- 
ter and thicker than a grame of Barley. 
The Limon tree is like vnto the Pome Citron tree in growth,thorny branches,and leaues of 
apleafant 
