Oliue cree:which being vaded, there come 
fmall long berries, which at the firft bee 
greene,and red when they be ripe - of an 
auftere and harfh tafte, with a certaine 
foLireneffe : within this berry is a fmall 
ftone, exceeding hard, white within like 
that of the Oliue, wherunto it is like both 
in thefafhion and oftentimes in the big- 
neffe of the fruit. 6 ' 
The Place. 
This groweth in mod places of Germa- 
nie without manuring :it growes not wild 
in England. But yet there befundry trees 
of them growing in the gardens offuchas 
loue rare and dainty plants, whereof I haue 
a tree or two in my garden. 
The Time. 
. The tame Cornell tree fioureth fome- 
time in February, & commonly in March, 
and afterwards the leaues come forth a^s an 
vnrimely birth: the berries or fruit are ripe 
in Auguft. 
The Names. 
The Grecians call 1 1 : the Ratines , 1 
Cornus .- in high-Durch, Cojmelbaum : in 
low-Dutch Cojhocle boom: the Italians, 
Corniolo : in French , Compiler .- in Spanifh, 
Corni zoic s . in Engiifh , the Cornell tree, 
and the Cornelia tree ; of fome,long Cher- 
rie tree. 
The fruit is named in Latine, Cornum . 
1 uv. iiLiiL is uaiijcu in nanne, c ornuitj .* 
inhrgh-Dutch, Cottiell t m low-Dutch, CojtttOClc : in Italian, Canale .- in Englifh, Cornel berries 
and Cornelian Cherries. 
This is Cornus mas Theophrafii, or Thcophraftm his male Cornell tree-, for he fettethdowne two 
forts of the Cornell trees, the male and the female : he maketh the wood of the male to be found 
as in this Cornell tree ; which we both for this caufe and for others alfobaue made to be the male’ 
The female is that which is commonly called Virga fanguinea, or Dogs berry tree, and Cornus fylue- 
fir is , or the wilde Cornel 1 tree, ofwhichwewill treat in the next Chapter following. 
The T emperature and Vert tees . 
The fruit of the Cornell tree hath a very harfh or choking tafte : it cooleth, drieth,andbindeth, 
yet may it alfo be eaten, as it is oftentimes . 
T t is a remedie againft the laskeand bloudy flix, it is hurtful! to a cold ftoraacke,and increafeth 
the rawnefle thereof: the leaues and tender crops of the tree are likewife of an harfh and choking 
tafte, and do mightily dry. 
They heale greene wounds that are great and deepe,efpecially in hard bodies, but they are not 
fo good for fmall wounds and tender bodies, as Galen writeth. 
Chap. io?. 
Of the female Qornell or TOog^Berry tree . 
TbeVcfcription. 
T Hat which the Italians call Virga fanguinea, or the bloudy Rod, is like to the Cornel tree, yet 
it groweth not into a tree,but remained: a fbrub : the yong branches thereof are iointed,and 
be of anobfeure red purple: they haue within a white fpongie pith like that of Elder, but 
theold ftalks are hard and ftiffe,thefubftanceofthewhichisalfowhite,and anfwerable to thofe 
CHihe Cornell tree : the leaues are alfo like, the middle rib whereof as alfo the brittle foot-ftaikes 
ar e fomewhat reddifh : at the top whereof ftand white floures in fpoky rundles, which turne into 
berries. 
