Of the Hiilcrie of Plants, 
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B 
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Mufcut quernsts. 
The Moffe of the Oke 5 c of other trees. 
JL IB. 3. 
{lender and thin, another more thicke, another 
fhorter,another longer 5 all of them for the nioft 
being of a vvhitifli colour, yet oftentimes there is 
acertainconealfo which is blacke, but IefTer and 
thinner : t he moft commendable of them all, as 
Pliny faith, be thofe that are vvhitifh, then the red- 
difh,and laftly fiich as be blacke. 
aT ' The Place . 
This Moffe is found on the Oke tree, the white 
and blacke Poplar tree, the Oliue tree, the birch 
tree, the Apple tree, the Peare tree, the Pine tree 
the wilde Pine tree, the Pitch tree, tire Firre tree* 
the Cedar tree, the Larch tree, & on a great fort 
of other trees. The beft, as DicfccriJcs faith is 
that of the Cedar tree,the next of the Poplar, 5 in 
which kinde the white and the fweet fmelling 
Moffe is the chiefeft ; theblackifh fort is of no 
account. Matthiolus wriretb, that in Italy that 
Moffe is fweet which growcth on the Pine tree 
the Pitch tree, the Fir-tree, & the Larch tree and’ 
the fweeteft that of the Larch tree. 
The Time. 
Moffe vpon the trees continueth all the veare 
long. 1 
nqThi ^ames. 
It is called of the Grecians,?,;,,, ofthe Latins, 
Mu\cus : the Arabians and fome Apothecaries in 
other countries call it rfrea in high Dutch 
: in low Dutch,<@ofclj : the French mem 
Ltt Moufch : the Italians, CMufgo : in Spanifh, 
Mujco delta arhoresnn HngliflijMofle. treeMoffc 
or Moffe of trees. 
„ U Ml ember at tire. 
Moffe is fomewhat cold and binding, which notwithftanding is more andleffe aceord,W 
Il n fr‘n/ nd , "ir“ "" ‘ ts ' 0,IC,h '^ ■ lldl "of hi, ™ 
vntoic felfeandalfo retaineth a certaine propertie ofthatbarke as of his breeder of L • 
' tbere ?* re the Mofle which commeth of the Oke dot^cooleandTwy m^clfbinde lie- 
fides h,s owne and proper facultie.it receiueth alfo the extreme binding quality ofthe Oke barke 
The Moffe which commeth of the Cedar tree, the Pine tree, the Pitch tree, the Fir tree the I arch 
tree,and generally all the Iloline trees are binding, and do moreouer digeft and foften ’ 
_ . r . , . •[ The Venues. 
Serapio faith, that the wine m which Moffe hath been fteeped certain daics,bringeth found flee o' 1 
ftrengtheneth the ftomacke,ftaieth vomiting, and ftoppeth the belly 
B^^ vvritedqthat thcdeco£tion of Moffe is good for women to fit in, that are troubled 
with the whites ; it is mixed with the ode of Ben, and with oiles to thicken them withall 
n.ir f I f V u- ,n com Pof.tions which ferue for fweet perfumes, and that takeaway wearifom ' 
neffe- for which things that is beft of all which is moft fweet of fmell. 
Chap, i 6z. Of ground <£Mojfe. 
*[ The Kinclcs. 
TrocrsZtony 3 phces t i 1 nd fUper ^ C 1311 “ TIT* p2rt ° f theearth dilIers Moffes,as alfovpon 
itony places, and marifli grounds, differing in forme not a little. 
. ^1 The Dcfcription. 
T Ui^fpecS TO°on L rnT eth VP ° n 'If e f rth ’ and the bottome of oJd and antient trees , 
pecially vpon fuch as grow in fhadowie woods, and alfoat the bottom of fhadowy 
hedges. 
