Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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fummes of money, vnto chofe that dreffe Spanifli skinnes, for which purpofe they are verie excel- 
lent. 
The root of Cotinut, as Anguillan notech, ferueth to die with, gluing to wool] and cloth a reddifh B 
colour, which Pliny knew, (hewing that this fhrub(that is to fay the root) is idlinedmcntn mode Con- 
chylij colore inftgnis. 
1 THc Alder tree or A Her, is a great high tree hauing many brittle branches, tbebarkeis 
4 of a browne colour, the wood or timber is not bar j, and yc-t it will laftandindure verie 
long vnder the water, yea longer than any orher timber whatfoeuer. wherefore in the fenny and foft 
mariih grounds theydovfeto make piles and pofts thereof, for the ftrengthenino of the walls and 
fuch like. This timber doth alfo feme very well to make troughes toconuey wrfter in (lead of pipes 
of Lead. The teaues of this tree are in (hape fomewhat like the HafeII,but they are blacker &: more 
wrinck!ed,very clammie to handlers though they were fprinckled witbhonie. Thebloffome or 
floures are like the agletsof the Birch tree;which being vaded, there followeth a fcaly fruit clofely 
growing together, as big as a Pigeons egge, which toward Autumne doth operand the feed falleth 
outand is loft. 
f ^Alnus . 7 2 Alum hirfut*. 
The Alder tree. Rough leaued Alder. 
M 1 » l) 1 . 
t 2 Chtjiue and Bduhinchaut obfeiued another kinde of this which differs from the ordinary, 
in that it hath larger and more cut leaues, and thefe nor fhining aboue, but hoary vnderneath: the 
catkins, as alfo the rough heads are not fo large as thofe of the former.the barke alfo is whiter.CY.v- 
ftres .makes it his Alnus altera:and Bdiihincjah i^ilnus hirfutuS fix folio inca.no. £ 
Chap. 113 . Of the zA Ider T reel 
*[ Thl Defcriptien. 
The 
