Tube 16. The Theater of‘Plants. Cm at, 4. 1395 
lyhuskeorcup, but thus it doth onely when it isnegkfted, and not pruined and tut low, to ca«ic it be *re the 
Scarlet graine more plcntifullyjasfhallbefhevvcdhcreafterjand which clfe it would not doe. 
The Pl -.cs and Time, 
The firft is more plentiful in £;><«’« and Frame then the fecond. and thefecond in Italy where tiie (i. ft isfearfe 
found: they grow alio in divers other Countryes, and are planted tor the rarity in lundry places in this Land; 
one whereof may be tcene in the Kings privy Garden at White Hall, Juft againlt the backe gate that openeth in o 
the High ftreeteover againft the Tennis Courtthere, which both flowreth and beareth fririre, as my felfe can 
witnelle who have gathered the Acornes under the tree,which C/xfusnat obfcrving when he was heie.denbt- 
ed to be barren the Idler groweth in many places as, Spains, Port avail, Italy, and Pro-pence in Frants, in Africa 
likewile and A fi-i, both the greater and the Idler, as Armenia,Cilicia,Syria,Ptfidia, and Cjalutia, in Candy alio, as 
EeUmiut hath recorded, and in Viremi.r,Nnv F.nelaud,&c. likewile : they all Rower although divers doe deny i', 
in May, and their fruite is ripe in tire end ol September : The Scarlet grainc coinmeth forth in the middle of e/ 1 - 
trillyini is gathered in the end of OHay, and in Inns. 
The Names. 
Vex is called in Greeke rtfi l?-quia ferra propter duritiem fee a id.tfit. Some called it in Latine Ilex mayor, and 
Ilex arbor, tnd Hex f,landifera, becaufe the Idler is called Ilex coccifera or coccifera. The firft is called Hex major 
fpinofa,ax acaleata. The fecond mmjjtinofa or aculcata, and limply Ilex by Matthiolw, Lttgdstnenfts and others, 
and Ilex arborea by Lobcl, all which I! an'air. re rransferrech to tl’.e firft. Clnfine taketh it to be Smihtx Arcadnm 
Theopbrafli, but Theopbraft as maketh the timber of Smi/ax to be foft and ealie ro be wrought on, but the timber 
of this is as hard as the former. Thelaft is called Prims by Theophrajhn, indifferently with the firft, by Diofco- 
rides m «©- iluyix.lt Coccus Baph'tca, and fohecallcth alio the g aine,in Latine Ilex aymfolia, and Vex coccifera or 
(focciyera^xtilotazPhcllodryscoccifera, in Spanijb Cofceja, taking the name from Cefcttlirsm , one of the names 
given by PH") thereunto. The Aeorne of tlie firft is called iu Greek tu-Ctay, and Acylam and from hence commeth 
the word Acylaca , which Bdlomm maketh mention in fundry places to beare Acornes, in Spanijb BeSota, and A- 
be'dota. 
TleVertP.es, 
The greene leaves of this Holme Oke,as Galen faith, have a greater force to coole bindcand dry, then have the 
leaves of any other Okes: being beaten and applyed they are good agairiftloft fwellings, and ftrengthen weake 
members as Diofcorides faith : the rootes hereof bruifed and laid on the torts that the Serpent Drymm hath made, 
isvery good torepreffe the venome, and to fiay the paines that come thereby. TheAcornesof thisJ/r*. which 
Hipocrates calleth Acylost, and of the firft Oke, and Fhagsu of the fweeteOke, either frefh o rofted doe bindethe 
belly,but if they be boylcd they do leffe: the young rootes bovled in wine or water, till they be tender, and then 
made into a pultis and applyed to any place burned or fcalded doth htlpe it: the Acornes of thefe greater Okes 
are generally eaten in Spaine where they grow, of the Rich as wellas poore, in the fame manner that they doe 
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