the Hiftory of Plants. 
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green, the leaues alternately ingirt the branches, & they are long.fmooth, thick, green,and Chining j 
fnipt alfo lightly about the edges : when the tree is grownc to fome height, at the tops of the bran- 
ches amongft the leaues of the former yeares growth,vpona fptig of fome fingers length, it puts 
forth a great many little white floures, confiding of fiue leaues a piece, with many little chiues in 
therm thefe floures quickly fall away, and the fruit that fucceeds them is a berry ofanovall figure, 
ofthebignefleofa large Cherry or Damfon,andof the fame colour, and of a fweet and plcafant 
Limrocerafijlts. Lmroccraf fruftas. 
The Cherry-bay in floure. The Cherry-bay with the fruit. 
tafte,witha ftoneinitliketoa Cherry ftone.This floures in May,and ripens the fruit in Auguftor 
September: rtwas firft fent to C lupus from Conftantinople, and that by the name of Trabifon cur- 
map. 1 . Trapezuntma daffy lus, the Date of Trapefon • butithathnoaffinitie with the Date Dale- 
campus refers it to the fecond Lotus mentioned by Th C ophr4us,hift. f U»t.l>b.A.uv. 4 .but therewith 
it doth not agr ee.Ciufius and mod fince,calit fitly LmsrocerafusprCer.fHsfoUo Laurm.lt ismow got 
into many ofour choife Englifh gardens, where it is well refpedted for thebeauty of the leaues and 
their lading or continual] greenenefle. 
The fruit hereof isgood to beeaten,butwhat phyficall vertues the tree or leaues thereofhaue it 
is not yet knowne. J 
hap. 11. Of the Euer-greene Thorne, 
To‘ S P lantvvhlch . £ff ^ / * nd fome other late writers haue called by the name of Pyraantba.is the 
trecs.and I thinke rather this than our wh ite Thom to be the OxfcJthuot Diofc^fdes lib 1 f ri? - 
and certamey.t was no other than this Thorne which Virgil makes mentionofby thename of 
o/the E'c’ nrec ne Thom ^ ' VOrdS ’ * f m P er ft mdmis ^ W8,fc - That is. And the berries 
Ttcttt2 thi* 
