152,8 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L i b.j. 
it were a piece of Corke ; which notwithftanding finketh to the bottome when it fallethinto the 
water, like as doth a ftone. 
I Bdfamfruflus: $3 Balfamiim Alpwi cum Carfohalfamo. 
The fruit oftheBalfara tree; The Balfani tree with the fruit. 
This tree faith GmUsjhax . beareth the fruit Carptfdfamum, is alfo one of the Balfam trees.-ic 
sroweth to the height and bigneife of the Pomegranate tree,garnilhed with very many branches : 
whereon do -row leaues like thofe of Rue, but of colour whiter, alwaies growing greene : amongft 
which come forth fioures, whereof we haue no certaintie: after which commcth forth fruit like 
that of the Turpentine tree, which in fhoppes is called Garpolalfatoum, of a pleafant imell , but the 
liquour which floweth from the wounded tree is much fweeter: which liquout of fomeis called 
° f ± Al ^oZr^lpinm hath writ a large Dialogue of the Balfam of the A ntients, and alfo figured 
and dcliuered the hiftorie thereof in his booke De Plant, ^gptifap. 1 4 .whether I refer the curious 
I haue prefented you with a flip from his tree, and the Carpobdjamum fet forth by our Author, which 
feemes to be of the fame plant. The leaues of this are like to thofe of Lmifcm , alwaies greene,and 
winaed growing three, flue, or feuen faftened to one foot- ftalkc ; the wood is guramie reddifti and 
well fmellin- • the fioures are fmall and white like thofe of Acatia, growing vfually three nigh to- 
gether • the fruit is of the {Rape and bigneffeof that of the Turpentine tree.containmg yellow and 
well fm'elling feeds, filled with a yellowifli moifture like honey, their tafte is bitten(h,& fomwhat 
bl o!t&L trees there is yet another fort : the fruit whereof is as itvvere a kernell without 
a fhel 1 couered with a thin skin ftraked with many veines,of a browne colour : the meat is firm and 
folid like the kernell ofthe Indian Nut, of a white colour, and without fmell, but ofa grateful taft; 
and it is thought to be hot in the firft degree, or in the beginning of the fecond . 
There be diners forts more, which might be omitted Decaufeof tedioufne(Te:neuerthe!efle I wil 
trouble you with two fpeciall trees worthy thenoting:there is, faith my Author, in America a great 
tree of monftrous hugenelTe,befet with leaues and boughes euen to the ground; the trunke wherof 
is centred with a twofold bark,the one thick like vnto Corke,& another thin next to the tree.-frora 
betweene which barks doth flow (the vpperbarke being wounded) a white Balfam like vnto teares 
or 
