Lib. 3. ' Of the Hiftory of Plants. ^485™ 
which are great, broad, and cornered Ieaues, much like td thofe ofthe Vine, hangingby long red- 
difh ftalks : the floures hang by clufters,ofa whitifh greene colour; after them commeth vp long 
fruit fattened together by couples, one right againft another, with kernels bumping outneereto 
the place in which they are combined: in all the other parts flat and th,in like vnto parchment, or 
rcfembling the innermoft wings ofgrafhoppers:the kernels be whiteand little. 
2 There is a fmall Maple which doth oftentimes come to the bignes ofatree, but mod com- 
monly it groweth low after the mancr of a fhrub : the barke of the young (hoots hereof is ltkewife 
fmoothjthe fubftance of the wood is white, and eafie to be wrought on: the Ieaues are cornered like 
thofe of the former, flippery, and fattened with areddilh ftalke.but much lelfer,very like in big- 
nes and fmoothnes to the leafe of Sanicle, but that the cuts are deeper : the floures be as thofe of 
the former, greene, yet not growing in clutters, but vpon fpoked round les : the fruit ftandethby 
two and two vpon a ftem or foot-ftalke. 
%The Place. 
The fmall orhedgeMapIe groweth almoft euery where in hedges and low woods. 
The great Maple'is a ftranger in England, only it groweth in the walkes and placesof pleafure 
of noble men, where it efpecially is planted for the ihadow fake, and vnder the name of Sycomore 
tree. 
The Time. 
Thefe trees floure about the end of March, and their fruit is ripe in September. 
•[ TheTPjmcs. 
This tree is called in Greeke ■■ in Latine, Acer : in Englifh, Maple, or Maple tree.' 
The great Maple is called in high Dutch, 3Hl)0JtK,and (©llhefcfjettte : the French men. Grant 
Erable, a.nd PUfrc abufluely,and this is thought to be properly called *pt,s*um , but they are far decei- 
ued that take this for Plat anus, o r the Plane tree, being drawne into this errour by the neereneffe of 
the French word • , for the Plane tree doth much differ from this, f This is now common I y(yet not 
rightly)called the Sycomore tree. And feeing vie will haue it fo,I thinke it were notvnfit to call it 
the baftard Sycomore. t 
The other is called in Latine, Acer minor : in high Dutch, !©afft)0U)8t-'in low Dutch, 23003 ^ 0 Ut: 
in French, Erable : in Englifh, fmall Maple, and common Maple, 
cr The Temperature and Venues . 
Whatvie the Maple hath in medicine we finde nothing written of the Grecians, but Pliny in his ^ 
14. booke, 8 .chapter affirmeth,that the root pouned and applied, is a Angular remedy for the paine 
of the liuer. S ercum Sammonicus writeth,that it is drunke with wine againft the paines of the fide. 
Si latus immeritum morho tent at ur acuto , 
Accch [urn tinges lapidem jlridentihus vndis. 
Hinc bibis : aut Aceris radieem tundis,& vna. 
Qim vino capis : hoeprafens medic amen habetur. 
Thy harmeleflc fide if fharpe difeafe inuade, 
In hiding water quench a heated ftone: 
This drinke.Or Maple root in ponder made. 
Take off in wine, a prefent med'eine knowne. 
Chap, up, Of the Toplar tree., 
«[f The Kindts, 
T Herebediuers trees vnder the title of Poplar, yet differing very notably, as (hall be declared in 
the defcriptions,w hereof one is the white, another the blacke,and a third fort fee downe by Pit- 
which is the Afpe, named by him Lybica-, and by TbeephraJlus,Kerkis : likewife there is another of 
America, orof chc Indies, which is not to be found in theferegions of Europe, 
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