IB.}, 
Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
Chap, ilo. Oj the Time tree. 
Plat an us. 
The Plane tree. 
1 'be Defcriptson. 
He Plane is a great tree, hailing 
very long and farre fpreading - 
boughes cafting a wonderfull 
broad fhadow, by realon vvherof it was 
highly commended and elleemed ofa- 
mong the old Romans : the leau.es are 
cornered like thofe of Palma Chriflt , 
greater than Vine leaues, and hanging 
vpon little red foot-ftalkes : the floures 
are fmalIandmoffie,and ofapale yel- 
lowifli colour : the fruit is round like a 
ball, rugged, and fomewhat hairy ; but 
in A fia more hairy and greater, almoft 
as big as a Walnut : the root is greac ? 
difperfing it felfe far abroad. 
•f]" T he Place. 
The Plane tfee delighteth to grow 
by fprings orriuers : Pliny reports that 
they were wont to be cherifhed with 
wine : they grew aftervvard(faith he)to 
be of fo great honour ( meaning the 
Plane trees ) as that they were clieri- 
flied and watered with wine: and it is 
found by experience that the fame is 
very comfortable to the roots, and wee 
haue alreadie taught, that trees defire 
todrinke wine. This tree is ftrange in 
Italy, it is no where feene in German y, 
nor in the low-Countries : in Afia in 
. „ , ... , , groweth plentifully : it is found a!fo> 
..nCandv,growm g mvalhes, and neerevnto the hill Athos,as Petrus Bellonm, in his Singularities 
doth declare: it groweth m many places of Greece, and is found planted in feme places of Italy 
for pleafure rather than for profit. My feruant William OHarfhall (whom I fent into the Mediterra- 
nean fea as Surgeon vnto the Hercules of London) found diners trees hereof growing in Lepanto 
hard by the fea fide, at the entrance into the towne, a port of Morea, being a part of Greece and 
from thence brought one of thofe rough buttons, being the fruit thereof. * There are one o’r two 
yong ones at this time growing with W .Trade f cant . £ 
The Plane trees caft their leaues in Winter, as Bcllonius teftifieth, and therefore it is no maruel 
that they keepe aivay the Sun in Sommer, and not at all in Winter : there is,faith Pliny, no greater 
commendation of the tree, than that it keepeth away the Sunne in Sommer, and entertaineth it in 
Winter. 
•ft The Names. 
’ trcc * s called in Greeke, ne*'™,., .■ andlikewifein Latine Plat anus : it bearethhis name of the 
breath .-the French mens Plafne doth far differ from this, which is a kind of Maple : this tree is na- 
med in Enghfh, Plane tree. r 
ThcT emper attire and Vcrtues. 
The Plane tree is ofa cold and moift elW,as Galen faith:the greene leaues are good to be 
laid vpon hot fvvellings and inflammations in the beginning. 
Being boiled in wine they area remedie for the running and the watering of the eyes, if they be 
The barkeand balls do dry :thebarke boiled in vineger helpeth the tooth-ache, 
Tne fruit of the Plane tree drunke with wine helpeth the bidngs of mad dogs and ferpents, amj 
mixed with hogs greafe it maketh a good ointment againft burning and fcalding. 
The b urned barke doth mightily dry, and fcoureth withall : it remoueth the white fcurfe.and cu- 
reth motft vlcers, • - - -- 
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