Chap. 143. Of the Storax tree. 
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HP He Storax tree groweth to the height and bigneffeofthe Quince tree-, the trunke or bodieis 
couered with a barke orrinde like vntothe Birch tree : the branches arefmalland lirnmer s 
whereon do grow leaues like thofe of the Quince tree, greenifh aboue, and whitifh vnderneach : a- 
mong which come forth white floures, like thofe of the Orange tree, ofan vnpleafant fmell : after 
commeth the fruit or berries, (landing vpon long and (lender foorftalks, couered oner with a ! ittle 
wooIIinefle,ofthebigneffeofa bladder nut, and of the fame colour • wherein is contained fmall 
feed., 
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Svftafrtis. \ U Tht Names - 
The Saffafras tree. 
The Spaniards and French men haue na- 
med this tree, Saffafras : the Indians in their 
tongue, Pateame: tor want of anEnglilhname 
we arc contented to call it the Ague tree, of 
his vertue in healing the Ague. 
The Temperature. 
The boughes and branches hereof are hoc 
<d dry in the fecond degree ; the tinde is hot- 
ter/or that it entreth into the third degree of 
heate and drine(Te,as is manileftly pcrceiucd 
in thedeco&ion. 
The Vertucs. 
The bed of all the tree is the root, and that 4 
worketh the bedeffeft, the which hath the 
rinde cleauing very fad to the inner part, and 
is ofcolourtawnie,and much more fweec of 
fmell than all the tree and his branches. 
The rinde tadeth of a more fweet fmell 
than the tree; and the water being fod with 
the root is of greater and better effe&s than 
any other part of the tree, and is of a more 
fweet fmell, and therefore the Spaniards vfe 
it, for that it worketh better aqd greater ef- 
fects. 
It is a tree that groweth neere vnto the fea, 
and in temperate places that haue not much 
drouth, normoidure. There be mountaines 
growing full of them, and they cad forth a 
mod fweet fmell, fo that at the beginning 
when they faw them fird, they thought they 
had been trees of Cinnamon, & in parr they 
were not deceiued : for that the rinde ofthis tree hath as fweet a fmell as Cinamon hath, and doth 
imitate it in colour and fharpne(Te of tade,and pleafantneffe of fmell: and fo the water that is made 
of it is of a mod fweet fmell and tade,as the Cinamon is, and procureth the fame works and effefts 
as Cinamon doth. 
The wood hereof cut in final pieces and boiled in water, to the colour of Claret wine,and drunk 
for ccrtaine daies togetherjielpcth the drop lie, remoueth oppilation or dopping of the liuer, cu- 
reth quotidian and tertian agues, and long feuers. 
The root of SafTafras hath power to comfort the liuer, and to free from oppilations, to comfort £ 
the weake and feeble domacke,to caufe good appetite, to confume windinefle,the chiefed caufe of 
cruditie and indigedion, day vomiting, and make fweec a dinkingbreath. 
It prouokethvrine,remoueth the impediments that doe caufe barrennefTe, and maketh women F 
apt toconceiue. 
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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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