i47 6 Of the Hiftory of Plants.- L 1 b. 3. 
ueth and therein doth farre excell it) is an hedge plant growing not aboue the height of foure or 
fine cubits, hailing tough and pliant ftalks and twiggie branches like to Oziers, of a brown colour. 
The leaues be round .thick, and ftiffc like the leaues of Cap par is, in colour and fauor of Pifiacu leaues, 
or TerebinthusxAmong which arifeth a fmall vpright fprig, bearing many fmal cluttering little gree- 
nifh yellow floures,vpon long and red ftalks. After which follow fmall reddifh Lentill-like feeds 
that carry at the tops a moft fine woolly or flockie tuft, crifped and curled like a curious wrought 
filken fleece, which curleth and foldeth it felfe abroad like a large bufli ofhaires. 
j Cb'Tp'j'fYtd T hfopbr.djti . & Cotintu CoriarittS Flinij. 
Venice Sumach. or Ht'd Sumach. 
IT The Place '. 
- . ; n Orleans neere Auignion, and in diuers placcsof Italy, vpon the Alpes of 
JSd many other places.lt groweth on moft of the hils of France, in the high woods of the 
typper Pannonia or Auftria,and alio of Hungariaan^ Bohemia. 
They floure and flourifh for the moft part in Iuly. 
wilde Oliue tree, from which this fhrub doth much differed therfore £ ■ may rightly be 
tims Coriaria. Diuers would haue named it Scot, ms; which name is not found in any of the ol 
ters. The Pannonians do call it Farblauff : itisalfo thought that th.sfhrub 
which in his 1 , .booker r .chapter he wrketh m thefe words:C^na is 
not fogrcatjithatha property to loofc the fruitwith downe, which thing happeneth vnto no other 
tree. 
«T The Temperature. , ■ 
The leaues and Gender branches together with the feeds are very much binding, cold and dneas 
the other kindes of Sumach are. f/* Vertuis . . j , fo greaC 
A The leaues of Coggjgriafli Silken Sumach,are fold ill the markets of Spa.ne and Italy 
