Chap, 2 . 
Trib» 16. 
The Theater of 'Plants. 
1391 
Another thing groweth on the branches under the leaves, that is like unto thecuppeor huskc that ccntaineth 9 - edit. ] 
the flower of the Pomegamet or fuch like. 
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Sometimes there hath beetle fmall loft Hones found like ip Vve quenha. The Qke "raps. loVamtz, 
pumice Hones,yet not often ieene, 
A round thing alfo hath beene found, whith Thetpbrefiiu 
calleth Sjcaminodes, and is fomewhaclike unto a Mulberry, 
differing oncly in the colour, htrdnefle to be broken, and 
the harflh talle. 
Another thing alfo like to the privy members of a man, 
both the yard and the teflides. 
There is againe another thing found growing thereon like 
a pricke in the beginning, called by him bucafccr- 
vvards growing hard, taketh the forme of a Bulleshead 
with a hole in it, and being broken hath like an Olive Hone 
within it. Nitar alfo as Tbcophtefhu faith , is made ofthe 
afhes of the Oke,which Pliny alcereth in this manner: It is 
certaine that the afhes ofthe burnt Oke is like unto Nitar, 
he faith ,Cintrem nitm(um : and G«,n tranflateth it after Pl- 
ny in the fame words. 
The Acornes of Sfculut the fweete Oke, and olCerrut fe- 
mina,the female bitter Oke,have certaine fmall Hones fome- 
rimes found in them,either at the end of the Acorne, or on 
the (hell,and fometimes in the nut it felfe. 
The Oke alfo bcareth a Cachrys. which Tbcophrajltss in 
his third Booke and feventh Chapter, expoundeth to be a 
round conception or gathering together of leaves, growing 
betweene the laH yeares fhoexe, and the young bud for the 
next to come. Cachrys alfo as ‘Diofconaer flieweth in the 
Chapter oS Libanotis, isthefeede ofthe fruite bearing Li. 
bamtis, which burnetii the tongue being chewed: butf/i- 
ny being deceived by this double acception ofthe word,con- 
foundeth them both together, and maketh them both bin 
one thing, faying/iA. i< 5 . c. 8. the Oke bcareth Cachrys, 
which is a fmall ball that hath the property of a cauteriall 
medicines but Tbcophrafins (heweth in the place before fet 
downe,that the Firrstreee, Larch, Pitch, Line, Nut and Plane trees, doc beare a Cachrys after the leaves arc 
falne, abiding ou all the Winter. 
There is growing on the Okes in Cilicia as r Dicfcmdes faith in the 43. Chapter of his fourth Booke a Ckcim or 
graine, which the women there gather with their mouthes, andislikeunto fmall Cockles orSnailcs: this fee- 16.com 
metb not the fame, which he in the fame Chapter calleth Coccus Haphica , and growethon a fmall fhrubbe,&c. as altisa ," 
you (hall underhand hereafter .• but fome learned Writers have taken them to be both one, namely the Scarlet 
graine,gathered from the lcffer Holme Oke: but furely Diofcorides meaneth another kind of graine, which from 
theule in Dying was called Coccm, and may peradventvre be the fame that MatthioHti faith he faw growing a- 
bout the bodies ofgrcat Okes in Bobcmia.uos farre from “Poogibrot,in a Hare Warren of the Emperours, which 
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ilh, and which healfo faith growth on the Okes.in the Woods by in (jerman and in divers other places 
or Italj^Fmnce^ and Germany, 
There are fundry Modes alfo growing on thefe Okes,fomc fweete and fome not, whereof I have fpoken alrea¬ 
dy among the Modes: as alfo tome Mufhromes mentioned among the Mtifhromes, whereof it is needdcfle to iiMufci, 
fpeake further here : but there groweth at the rootes of old Okes in the Spring time, and fometimes alfo in the 
very heate of Summer, apeculicr kinde of Mufhrome or Excreffence, called Vvajuerihd'; f welling out of rhe 
earth,many growing one clofe unto another, of the fafhionofa grape, and therefore tooke the name, The Oke l 9-Kv* 
grape, and is of a purplifh colour on the outfide,and white within like milke, and in the end of Summer bccom- 
mech hard or Wooddy. 
There is a certaine venemous Serpent called Drymus ,taking his name from the place of his breeding and chiefs io.Vtvml 
abiding.which is che rootes ol Okes. Theophrafius, 1 ‘Diofcoriissfialcn.Nicander ,and •z/idtim, have all made men- ‘ 
tion of the wondrous venemous quality of this Worme or Serpcnt,and ofthe cure of the poylon. 
The worme named Ranee a raucedineforte, breed in the rootes of Okes: and fo doe thofe called Galbe, biice- s-..R„aca 
fpecially on the Efatltu or fweete Oke. n.Gaihe, 
There islaflly found in ourowne Land, abrowr.ekindeofGummegrowingon Okes, which Mailer Edward 
Haffclhvooa found in Nottingamjb Ire , and Tent fome of it to me. ij.Ch/w»/ 0 
There arealfo found growing upon Okes,Miffelco,Pollipody,Agaricke,Miiihromcs of fundry formesand fub- 
ftances,as Touchwood,&c. And the two firfi figures exprefl'ed in theTable,are ofadiffering forme from others 
Manna alfo,ora kmde thereof,which we call in Ertglijh a hony dew,found more plentifully on the Oken leaves' 
then on any other trees: but becaufe they are not peculier onely to theOkes.but grow upon other trees alfo, and 
that I have fnoken of moft of them in other places ol this Worke.I forbeare further to mention them here.lcavinp 
the reft that have not yet beene entreated oft,to their fit places. * ° 
_ T, hei ; FP" a " d Jre Sufficiently exprefl'ed in their dcfcriptions,and fo are their Names alfo, Laving that the 
Gall it felfe is called m Greeke •*«<, and in Latinc Gall ,«,whereof one kind? fitter medicines is called Omthacitu 
