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and France, the other fort wtercof that lofeth the leaves in Winter, growcih in Aquitaine necre the PytncM 
hils where Tbeephra/hu did oblcrve it to grow : the other about f it* mote plentifull then any where elfe in Tuf. 
caij aj Matthiolu! faith ■ although Fl-r.) denyeth any Suker to grow in Italy or France, they flower andbeare 
their fruite later then other Okes. 
The N ernes. 
The tree is called in Greeke ziM.fF Phellm, in Latinc Sui:r t ind llexfemimt offsmeasi’/ixy faith. The firilis 
by Mattbioliu ,L«6el,mA others called Suker UtifoUum, butthat whofe leaves fall in Winter ( which 'Bauhimw 
maketh another (pecies, but he might as well make the low one of Tliny to be another fort like wife J Saber A* 
qmtamcumfolio dcc'iduo. The other is called Saber Mgufiifelium by the laid Authours. The lulimt call it Sugars, 
the Spaniards Alcormitjuc, and the barke Conhu d: ulcorneejtie, the French Liege, but finely this is not that Liege 
that Bellomut faith the fruite is edible, the Germmes Pmtcffelhoult, and Vlotbeut, the Dutch Corke, as we doe, 
TheVcrtues . 
The Corke hath a manifefl drying and binding frailty,more as it is thought then the barke of any other Oke : 
the afhes of the burnt Corke ftancheth any fluxe of blood, whether in men or women as Severing faith; 
Q uacunque fait vU immoderata cruorii. 
Being drunkc in Winc or any other convenient drinke. Corke is profitably ufed for many purpofes to floppe 
all forts of vcflels, to pcife fifliermens nets, and to be put into {hoaes and flippers to kcepe our feete warmc and 
dry. 
Chap. VII. 
Smilax Archfl.dam majorglandifera. The great Laurell Oke. 
S Nto the kindes of 1 /ex divers have joyned this Smilax for fome likenefle, but differing in more, being 
unknowne to many of our moderne Writers for they ftill underflood the Ye we tree to be meant by this 
pane, andnoother: of this there are two forts, onegreater and the ocher leffer, both which (hall be 
(hewed ia this Chapter. 
1. Smtlax Arcadxmglandif era major. The greater Laurell Oke. 
This greiter kinde rifeth up to arealcnablc height like an indifferent tall trce,covered with a grayifh fmooth 
barke, and the younger branches, withan hoary foft 
downe, the leaves are very like unto Bay leaves, or 
as Theophraftui faith like unco the fmooth llex y being 
greene above, and with a foft white woollinefle un¬ 
derneath, without any dents or prickles on the ed¬ 
ges : it beareth yellow flowers on long flalkes as all 
ocher Okes doc,and fail away in like manner bearing 
fmall Acorneslike the great O e. 
2 . Smilax glandif era minor. 
The leffer Laurell Oke. 
The leffer fort that never growcch high, but ever 
remaineth like a low (hrubbe,ha:h longer leaves then 
the former, and narrower alfo, bat as white and 
woolly underneath,in other things they are alike. 
The PL ce and Ttme. 
The fii fl groweth plentifully about Adompelier, and 
in many places in Italy and Spaine, the other upon the 
hills about the river Rhodonw, that runneth through 
Trovence, and flower and teare fruite when theo- 
thers dee. 
The Turner. * 
The old Cjretians, and elpecially the Orcadians, 
as Theophraftui faith called this tree apiK&z and 
Smilax & Aiilax , but they that live in thole Coun¬ 
tries now, doc call both the Tree and the Acorne 
thereof Acylac.i ,by corrupting the word *y-utoy, as it 
is very probable, Belloniw faith that the tree,which 
the (retanes call Acylaca, they of mount Athos, kee¬ 
ping the old name doc call Aria, keeping the leaves 
alwaics greene, whertby BeHonim fheweth how 
much we are miflaken herein, for Theophrajlus lib. 5. 
c.f. doth number Aria, among the cverliving trees, 
filch as the Ilex that beareth Acylaca is,but not among 
fuch as beare fowre har'fh berries, as the Service tree 
doth, unto the kindred whereof Aria is referred by 
our moderne Writers, and befides Theophrajlw in his 
4-Bocke and S.Chapter faith, Laurtu Art£ fimilU ex 
rotoy fo that this Smilax or Laurell Oke is mod likely ^ 
to be that tAcyUea^ and their ^Aria alfo, and but the wood hereof is white and loofe is meWctn, 
much differing from Ilex, which is firmc and brownc, i: might be accounted a ffccies thereof, and indeed 
doth refen c the great Ilex that he faw in Spaine. to be this Smi lax find fo doth 13 auhinjM a\(Qjhc vicinity,of theit 
name* 
i,i. Smilax ^ircadum glandif era majo' & minor. 
The greater and Idler Laurell Oke. 
