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TheTbeater of ‘Plants. 
Sabina vulgaris. 
The ordinary Savinc Tree, 
both which are found untrue by good experience,^ Fuchfitss } Cor« 
9 e f ner y Dodonaus and Lugdunenfis doe teftifie, yet Comer arius 
iaithit i ; true in one kind that it bearethno fruit, but not in the 
other, but Lob el faith the ordinary doth beare berries although 
but in a few places and but feldome, and both of them holding 
their fruit on the branches all the Winter,untill greene ones grow 
on them,and never looting their leaves. 
2. Sabina baccata altera. Gentle Savine with berries. 
This other Savine groweth fomewhat higher then the laft as it 
groweih in Europe, and almoft unto the height of the Phoenician 
or C yprefle I ke Cedar, fpreading more Gender and weake bran¬ 
ches whereon are fet ftnall and long leaves, of a more gentle 
favour then the reft ion the branches among the leaves come forth 
inch like berries as the other, and very like unto Iuniper, blacke 
akb when they are ripe, and bnt little bitter in tafte,not altogether 
unpkafant. 
The Place. 
fhefiift groweth in Candy, ALifia, and other thofeEaft court- 
tries, the fecond on the mountaine Taurus ^ Amanus and Olympic: 
the ocher upon the mountaines in Apulia and Calabria of Naples , 
as alio on the plaines of the Alpes neare unto Qratianople, 
The Time. 
They abide ever greene, and (hew their ripe berries not untill 
the Winter. 
2 * Sabina baccata a'lera. 
Gentle Savine with berries. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke and Brathus ^Brathy 
and r Barathcon i in Latine Sabina and Savina and of home Savi- 
why Pliny ftiould call Sabina an herbe all doe much won¬ 
der, tor all knew and himfelfe could not bee ignorant thatboth 
forrs hereof mentioned by him were trees or fhrubbes and not 
rierbes. * Doaonaw feecneth to allude unto the Greeke name, 
where he faith that Pliny in his 12, Booke and 19 Chapter men¬ 
tioned! Brut a arbor , and thinketh as divers others did, that Bruta 
was taken from Brathu by the tranfpofition of a letter,and is Pliny 
bis Savina altera } which he faith was called Cnprejj'w Qntica : but 
