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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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Styrax arbor. 
The Storax tree. 
feed, vvhereunto alfo cleaue cerraine aummie 
teares, bearing the name of the tree, and which 
iliue from the trunk or body when it is wounded. 
If The Place. 
Tliis tree groweth in diuers places of France 
Italy and Spaine, where it bringeth forth litt'e 
or no gum at all: it groweth in Iudxa.Parapby- 
Ira, Syria, P ifidia,Sidon, and many other places 
of lime or Paleftine, as alfo in diuers I (lands in 
the Mediterranean lea, namely Cyprus, Candy 
^anr,and other places, where it bringeth forth 
his gummy liquour in full perfection of fweet- 
nelfe, and alfo in great plenty, where it is gathe- 
red and put into great Canes orReeds, whereof 
as fomedeeme it took the name Calamta- others 
deemeofthe leauesofReeds wherein they wrap 
rt : hereof I haue two fmall trees in my garden 
the which I raifed of feed. b ? 
The Time. 
It flourerh in May, and the fruit is ripe in 
September. 
^ The Names* 
This tree, as may be gathered byfome,was 
called Styrax, by reafon of that gum or liquour 
wh ich dropperh ou r of the fame, being like vnro 
the hor«v pipes of Ife.that bang at theeaues of 
houfes in Winter,called Styria.orof the Canes 
or the leaties of Reeds fpoken of before: in La- 
tine, Storax Calamitx: in Englifh, Storax, which 
is kepr in Canes or the leaues of Reeds: there 
floweth from fome of thefe trees a certain gum- 
mie liquor, which neuer groweth naturally hard, 
but remaineth alwaies thinne, which is called li-’ 
quid Styrax,or Storax. 
The Temperature. 
The gum of this tree is of an heating, mollifying, and concocting qualitie. 
The Vertues. 
'A _ It helpeth the cough, the falling downe of rheumesar-d humours intothccheft, and hoarfnelTe 
or the voice : it alfo helpeth the noileand founding of the eares, preuaileth againft Strumas or the 
Kings eui 11, nodes on the nerues,and hard fwe! lings proceeding of a cold caufe : it preuaileth alfo 
againftall cold poifons,as Hemlocksand fuch like. 
B Ofthis gum therearemadefundryexcellentperfumes, pomanders, fweetwaters, fweetba^s' 
and fweetwafhing balls, and diuers other fweetchaines 6c bracelets, whereof to write were imper- 
tinent to this hiitorie. 1 
C h a F. 144 . Qf~ ^ )e ^ orro&fuH tree or fndian Mourner , 
The Description. 
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Rbor tr,(lu, the fad or forrowfull tree waxeth as big as an Oliuc rree,garni<hcd with many good, 
ly branches, fet full of leaues like thofe of the Plum tree: among which come forth ntbftodo- 
Iiterous and weet fmelhng floures.whofe ftalkes are of the colour of Saffron, which flouriih and 
ihew ihemidues onely in the night time, and in the day time Jooke withered and with a mourning 
eheere : the leaues a foat that time fhnnke in themfelues together, much like a tender plant that is 
f roll bitten, very fad y lumping, Iowring, and hanging downe the head, asthough it loathed the 
r?? 1 f’ an r C °r l,L a ^ nH 1 C j leate °^ t ie ^ Lin ' ^ ^ 1 ° u ^ * n va * n lofe labour in repeating a foo- 
1 f nflC °J Cnc Po T eClc f 11 Indians, who would make fooles beleeue, that this tree was once a faire 
daughterofa great Lord or King, and that the Sun was in louc with her, with other toies which I 
omit. 
