Betulus,fwe Carpintts. *[| The Vefcription. 
The Hornebeame tree. • ; £_ J 
. IQ Etuluspr the Hornebeam tree grows great, 
[~)and very like vnto the ElraejOr Wich Hafel 
trce,hauing a great body : the wood or tim- 
ber whereofis better for arrowes and (hafts, pul- 
leies for mills, and fuch like deuifes, than Elme 
or Wich Hazell ; forin time it ivaxeth (o hard, 
that the toughneffe and hardndle of it may be 
rather compared vnto horn than vnto wood, and 
therefore it was called Hornebeame, or Hard- 
beame: the leaues hereof are like the Elme, fa- 
tting that they be tenderer: among thofe hang 
certainetriangled things, vpon which be found 
knaps,or little heads of thebigncfleofCicbes, 
in which is contai ned the fruit or feed : the root 
is flrong andthicke. 
The place. 
Bet ulus or the Hornebeame tree growes plen - 
tifully in Northampton (hire , alfoin Kent by 
Grauefend, where it is commonly taken for a 
kindeof Elme, 
The Time. 
This tree doth fpring in Aprill, and the feed is 
ripe in September. 
«y The Times. 
The Hornebeam tree is called in Greek ?«>>'», 
which is as if you fhottld fay Coniugalis, or be- 
longing to the yoke, becaufe it ferueth well to 
make ?«k* of,in Latine,/«^a, yokes wherewith 
oxen arc yoked together, which are alfoeuen at 
this time made thereof, as witneffeth Bcnedictns Curtins Symphorittms, and our felues haue futftcienc 
knowledge thereof in.ourownecountry:,and therefore it may be Englifhed Yoke Elme. It is called 
of {bme,Carpinus and Ztigia : it is alfo called Bet ulus, as if it were a kinde of Birch, but my felfc bet- 
ter like that it fhould be one of the Elmes : in high Dutch, 2(ll^0£ttC: in French, Came.- inlta- 
lia t),Carpi»o .■ in Englifh, Hornebeame, Hardbeame, Yoke Elme, and in fome places, W itch- hafeJI. 
qy The Temperature and Vertues. 
This tree is not vfed in medicine, the vertues arc notexpreffed of the Antients, neither haue wee ft 
any certaine experiments of our owne knowledge more than hath beenefaid for the vfe of Huf- 
bandrie. 
Chap. ii6 . Of the Elme tree. 
$ /"“TV r Author onely deferibed two Elmes, and thofe not fo accurately but that I thinke I 
’^'fliallgiue the Reader content,in exchanging them for better receiued from IK. Goa dyer-, 
which are thefe. 
Vlmus 'ViilgatifUma folio Into fcatro. The common Elme. 
i "TTHisElme isaverygreathightree,thebarkeoftheyoungtrees,andboughesof the EI- 
A der, which are vfually lopped or lhred, is fmooth and very tough, and wil ftripor pil from 
the wood a great length without breaking:the bark of the body of the old trees as the trees grow in 
bigneflc, teares or rents, which makes it very rough. The innermoft wood of thetreeisof reddifh 
yellow 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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Chap. 115. Of the Hornebeame } or Hard beame Tree . 
