L * b. 3„ Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
1483 
fmooth, finning and large, fomewhat fnipt or toothed about the edges: the floures are little whi 
tifh,of a good fauour,and very many in number, growing cluttering together from out of the mid 
die of the leafe: out of which proceeded: a fmall whitifh long narrow leafe : after the floures fuc 
ceed cornered (harpe pointed Nuts, of the bigneffe of Hafell Nuts.This tree feemeth to be a kinde 
of Elme,and the people of Effex about Heningham(wheras great plenty groweth by the way fides) 
do call it broad leafed Elme, 1 J 
1 TilUfmin a. 2 ri lh m ai . 
The female Line tree. The male Line tree. 
2 . J female 1 'Ha or Line tree groweth alfovery great and thicke,fpreading it felfe far abroad 
r*” u 0t ,; r Ll ' . tree ls ver y tough and pliant,and (erueth to make cords and halters 
of The timber of this nee is much harder, more knottie, and more yellow than the timber of the 
other,not much differing from the timber of the Elme tree : the leaues hereof are not much vnlilfe 
luyleaues not very greene.fomewhat fnipt about the edges: from the mid die whereof come forth 
clutters of little white floures like the formenwhich being vaded, there fuccced fmall round pel- 
lets, growing cluttering together, like Iuy berries,within which is contained a little roundblackifh 
feed, winch falleth out when the berry is ripe. 
The Place. 
The female Linden tree groweth in foine woods in Northampton {hire; alfo ncere Colchefter, 
mid tn many places alongft the high way leading from London to Henningham,in the countie of 
The male Linden tree groweth in my Lord Treafurers garden at the Strand,and in fundry other 
places, as at Barn-elnies,and in a garden aKaint Katherines neere London, f The female growes in 
the places herenamed.but I haue not ybt obferued the male, f 
The Time 
Thefe trees floure in May, and their fruit is ripe in Auguft. 
. The Thames. 
The Linden tree is catted in Greeke*'Ai>,; in Latine,7/7«.-in high Dutch, ?Uttl)Ctt,and jUntWl* 
ftautlt : in low Dutch, IfftiDe, and HutDcnbOOm ; the Italians , Tibet : the Spaniards-Tf/*.- in French, 
Tuct and Tiheul in English, Linden tree, and Line tree. 
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