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Of the HiHory of Plants. 
' i b, y 
C ane/Lt folium ^Bacillus $ Cortex . 
The leafe, barke,and trankeofthe Cin- 
namon tree. 
thereof it turneth and loldeth it feJfe round 
together, as wee daily lee by viewing the 
thing it felfe :tbis tree being thus peeled, 
recouereth a new barke in the fpace of three 
yeares, and is then ready to be disbarked as 
afore.That Cinnamon which is ofa paleco- 
lour hath not been well dried in the Sunne : 
that of a faire browne colour is bell ; & {hat 
which is blackifh, hath been too tnuch dri- 
ed,and alfohath taken home wet in the time 
of drying. 
$ 2 Befides the Cinnamon vulgarly 
knowne and vfed, there is another fort which 
alfo is commonly receiuedfor the Caffia of 
Vio (cor ides and the Antients. Now this dif. 
fers from the former in that it is ofa redder 
colour, ofa more hard, follid, and compact 
fubftance, commonly alfo thicker, & if you 
chew it, more clammy and vifeous : the tafte 
and fmell are much like Cinnamon, yet not 
altogether fo llrong as that of the bell Cin- 
namon. There is much controueriie in la re 
Writers concerning both thetuie Cinna- 
mon.and Caflia of the Antients : thcvvhich 
Ihauenot time nor fpace here to mention, 
much leffe toinfift vpon : I haue obferued 
that both the Cinnamon and Caffia that we 
haue are couered ouer with a rough grayifh 
barke, like that of an Okc or other fuch tree, 
which is cleane feraped off, and taken away 
before it be brought to vs. $ 
The Place. 
The chiefeft places where the trees doe 
grow that beare Cinnamon, are Zeilan, and 
Malauar :but thole of Zeilan are the bed > 
they grow in other of the Molucca Hands,' 
as Iaoa,or Iaua,rhe greater and the lefle,and 
alfo in Mindanoa, for the moll part vpon 
mountaines. 
f The Time. 
The Cinnamon tree grovveth green win 
ter and Sommer,asdoall the other trees o 
, the Moluccaes,andEaft Indies for the mol 
is ^V,,and 
tied ■ fnr „ —j-ir > ° CIluJmone tree: but that opinion is not to be recei- 
^^^ejtocinrweetiKireoffmcnandodiercirciiffilUnwsbdOTgi^ 
Ica hanC4»f//4:xn Spanifh,C4wA.-in French, Canellt : in high Dutch 1 
as fomSfey QucrU /others’ the Eatlnes hkewife Cinmmmum , the Arabians ,DarfeJ, 
in Ormus, in the Illand Iai ’ a the y name ic 
rof!giie fignificth To'ulcc lignum c ’ f ” °° c * °? China : in Malauar, Cats ma:xs, which in their 
other is called C4//4,and^;/S^ W °° J '' “ ED g hft > C tnnamome,Cinnamon ja nd Canell.The 
D "f‘ mAs Writeth,that ^tnnamonlath powerio warme, and is^of thirine parts: icisalfodrie 
and 
