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Vifcui qutranwi. 
Miflcllco ofcbc pkc. 
2. Vifcumlndicum GT Tolicoaon, 
The Miflcllco qflndia,and that with many berries together. 
The Flace and Timel 3. VIfeum Terkvlanum, 
The firft groweth very rarely on Okes with us, but upon fundryother as vTcil MiffcUio 
timber as fruite trees, plentifully in Woods, Groves, and the like,in all the Land, but 
that with many berries in Germany,.&c. the other two grow in the Weft Indies, from 
whence onely f'otne branch or other was brought by a friend. Our Miffellto flowreth 
in the Spring time,but the berries be not ripe untill OElober, and abide on the branches 
all the Winter,unlefTc the Blacke birds,and other birds doe devoure them. 
Tbe Names, 
It is called inGreeke ’t?»< by Diofcorides, and fo is the Birdlime made thereof al- 
fo,and»^i«by T hcopbrafltts who faith alfo that in Euboea it is called Stelie , and in Ar¬ 
cadia Hyphear: yet lib,^, c. 16. ofhis Hiftory, he faith that Stelie groweth on the 
North fide of the ilex,2nd Hypke.tr on the South,& fo they differed one from another 
in fome thing, which he hstb no where exprell, in Larinetii/cKi and Vifeum, and fo 
alfo the Birdlime made of the berries , asareall thefeforts called by a'[Writers, 
that have wiicten either of the two laft, fmcctobcl, with their feverall ad/nmffes. 
The Arabians call ic Debacb, Dabncb and Hale, the Italians Vifchtoyhte Spaniards Li- 
framorebtgo, the french (]uy, tire Gerrnar.es Jddijlel, an i Sicken mijlel and Fogeltcm , 
"the Dutch Afarentacken, and \vc in Englijh Miflellto, There are fundry controver- 
fies to be decided about this Vifeum, fir It whether it be produced from its owne feed 
or no,for many have held that Blacke birds eating the berryes and lying in their bel- 
lies,by dunging on the trees the feede hath thereby becne made the fitter to grow, 
which elfe is not,and fodoth Pliny from Theophraftus fee it downe,i»r<fi« ftbiexitium 
cacat, that the Blacke birds voydeth that whereby it is brought to death, but it is 
fince found by experience,that there is no fhew of feed in that dung, they voyde up¬ 
on the trees or clfewhere, being w holly altered in their bellies before the voyding, 
and further that Miffellto groweth on trees from their owne fuperfluousmoyfture. 
which made Ion the Poetto call is. Sudor eyaercus, even as Gaiies doe, and OkcAp- 
ples from other fort ofOkes, and have no feede of their owne, andtothispuipofe 
Virgilfexto tylineidoi faith: 
Q ualefolet fylvis brttmah frigore, Vifcesm 
Fronde virere nova, eynod non fua feminat etrbos. 
Tbeophrajhtf alfo faith that the Mi(Telleo loofeth the leaves in Winter if it grow on thofe trees that fhed their 
leaves then: but holdech them growing on ever greene trees,the reafon whereof faith he is the tenacious humi¬ 
dity in the one,which the other wanteth: but the experience of our times hath fhewed that it keepeth the leaves 
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