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Tbe Theater of‘Plants. 
Chap. 8 , i 
names of SmtUx milUx peradventure mbovlngfomewhat thereunto, for' ThUbimu doth not account thiMm- 
to be a proper fpeciea of Oke it felfehut putteth it among the Ilim, calling it Il'xfdwrotmdim mollimo- 
'five Smtlax The.phrafii , the word SmiUx is of a large extent,comprehending under it divers forts 
of trees and herbes.as firfl this SmiUx of the Anmtimu, which we therefore call ?o diftinguifh it bv a 
feverall epithite.from Taxm the Yewe tree,which is alfo called SmiUx, but Uciftr*, the better to be underllood: 
then is there SmiUx afrira if UvU among the bmde weedes, and lallly SmiUx hnnfit of -Dh/ccridn, which is 
accounted to be Pbajiolw the kidney Beane, J ' 
The Vertues, 
ThisLaure 11 Oke is of a like binding quality with the other forts of Okes.as Gd c » fheweth in his 6. Booke and 
thud Chapter,* comp*/medic.feemdum locos ,where he doth ihewthofe things that ate fit to ufe for the meanc 
inflammationsof the pa late,appointing the decoftion of Mirtles and che be, ries to be llrongcr remedies then were 
before remembred, as alfoof lowre Quinces,and likewifc the young and tender branches of the IUx, Arbmu, 
SmtUx indPh.fHi, which Cornarim in commenting upon feemeth to Wonder at, that Gain (hould appoint the 
jT** Whllh W J* X " a dangerous and deadly tree as and Pliny doe witneffe to be tiled inwardly, 
and thereupon thmkcth that theta may be Idle dangerous in one place then another,and then that to be taken 
but Mtttibiolm taxeth him for that opinion,laying that if he had,taken better Counfell of his Tbcepbrtfiut, with 
whom he was lo converfant.who fheweth a kinde of SmiUx that is like unto Ilr-v.he w ould have beene of a bet- 
ter judgement: and Gale » 3 as you bearc placeth it with other Acorne bearing trees. 
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Chap. V II f. 
Pbeltodrys, IheCoikeOke. 
SlS H , e ; ejre n fi m/ f0r f as Dalcchampiia UtLxfdHxm.fi, hath obftrved and recorded, 
** alt , h ° u S h Thmphrtftx, and MmkoU have made mention but of one, which (hall buddy be deela- 
> red here. 
The firll 
' V r’ffy The narrow leafed white Corke Oke, 
r a white leafed Corke uke growethteafonable-rear, and aimed as tall 
reat, andalmoli as tall as the Corke tree, 
covered with a lmoother and whiter barke then either tl.e corke or the Oke: thelcavcsare Ibmewh.t long and 
narro w, greenc above and gray unde, nearn dented about the edges but not very dceoely, and raiher hard then 
prickly,the flowers and (ante a,e like th. other OKes.but the Acornesare of a d n ker yellow colour. There is al- 
.o a lore hereof whole leaves have no dents or very Jew the timber or wood is not lo hard as the Hex, and not io 
ioltas tnc Oke. * 
l ,x. 7’Jn H <1 m s . Ida ar.guf if< hi f*r !a ffnl "t. 
The narrow .md broad leafed white CcrkcOkc. 
4 5 Plhlladiyt ftiiji l.t'Jnnii iff fohjsmuricatu. 
1 he broadv It gmne Uated (..tike Ok- , u il t'-t puckly one. 
