L I B. 3. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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Seruice tree in fhape and manner of growing, that it is hard to know one from the other • but that 
the leaues are foftandhairy,hauingared finew or rib thorow the midft of the leafe • the floures 
grow with the leaues vpon long ftems cluftering together like cats taile, or the catkins of tl e nut 
tree, but greater,and of a whiti (h green colour : after which come cinders of round berries crow 
ing in bunches like grapes, ’ 6 
2 Pliny his SumachjOr the Sumach otplinies defcription,groweth likea fmall hedge tree ha 1 
iiing many (lender twiggte branches, garnifhed with littleleaues like CMyrtm, or rather Use’ the 
leaues of the luiube tree ; among which come forth (lender moffie floures, ofno great account or va 
lue, which bring forth (mall feeds, inclofed within a cornered cafe or huske,fafliioned like a fpoon- 
the trunke or body of both thefe kindes of Sumach being wounded with fame iron Inftrument’ 
yeeldethagumorliquour. 8 
f ft Place. 
. Sumach groweth,as Diofeorides faith, in ftony places : it Is found in diuers mountaines & woods 
xn Spaine,and in many places on the mount Apennine in Italy, and alfo neere vnto Pontus Archi- 
genes in Galen,in the 8. book of medicines according to the places affected, (heweth that it stow-* 
eth in Syria, making choice of that of Syria. 3 0 - 
The Time. 
The floures of Sumach come forth in Iuly.the feed with the berries are ripein Autumnc.' 
_ %The Names. 
This is called in Greekef.*, Rhus, faith Pliny, hath no Latine nameiyet GaU after the flenificatid 
an ofche Greeke word, faineth a name, calling it Fluida : the Arabians name it Sumach .• theltali! 
alls ,Sumacbo : the Spaniards, Sumagre.'m low Dutch, by contra it ing of the word they cal it femtacft 
or Aminat!) : in EngJift, Sumach, Coriars Sumach, and Leather Sumach: the leaues of the ft rub 
be called 'pCePv/m *+*»: in Latine,£^air coriaria,ox Rhoe , 
The (eed is named Eruthros : and Wia» ■. in Latin ejahus Culinaria, and Rhus obfoniorum : in End 
glift, Meat Sumach, and Sauce Sumach. 
If The Temperature, 
The fruit, leaues, and feed hereof do very much binde, they alfo coole and drie : driethevare m 
the third degree, and cold in the fecond,as Galen teacheth. ' 
- , „ „ If The Vertues. 
The leaues of Sumach boyled in wine and drunken, do flop the laske, the inordinate courfe of A 1 
womens fickne(!es,and all other inordinate ilfuesofbloud. 
The feed of Sumach eaten in fauces with meat, (loppethall manner of fluxes of thebellv the B 
cloudy flix 3 and all other iffues,efpecially the white iffues ofwoTien. 7 * 
The decoftion of the leaues maketh haires blacke.and is put into ftooles to fume vpward into C 
the bodies of thofe that haue the Dyfenterie, and is to be giuenthem alfotodrinke. 
ofG ^ C;U,eS lnto an °* ntmcnt or plaifter with hony and vineger,ftaith the fpreading nature D 
The dne leaues fodden inwater vntill thedecoftionbeas thickeas hony, yeeld forth a certaine F 
oilmefle, which performeth all the effects of Lie tum. y,y certame is 
fenJeldcf^ ** n ° effe<ftua11 10 bc ftrovved in pouder vpon their meats which are CeeliacioiVy- F 
rhoTdes feedeSpOUned ’ miXed vvithhonieandcbe P°wder of Oken coles , healeth the Hemor- G 
Chap. 112,; Of red Sumach. 
TheVefcription . 
1 , T n^ e ^ e tw ? fi S l ’ res are of one and the felfe fame plant ; the firft fheweth the fhrub being in 
j . r noure : the other when it is full floured with the fruit growne to ripenefle, notwithftan- 
ding fome haue deemed them to be oftwo kindes, wherein they were deceiued. 
Vmprlan'f 6110 edentandmoft beautifull plant Coggygna (beeing reputed of the Italians and the 
s for a kind of Rhus or Sumach,becaufe it is vfed for the fame purpofes whereto Khm ler- 
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