Tk I B E 1 6 , 
the name of Carplmt : but the truth is that 9 ( } o^vu and 
arc three feverall trees, and Carpinns the fourth, of 
kverall kindcs, and not to be lb confounded together* 
The Italians call it Faggio, the Spaniards Haia, the French 
' ati Foptjlcan , and He fire, yet Bclloniw in the $ 2 . Chap- 
^ 00 ^ c Obfervations doth diftinguilk 
ncJprettomFoHftean, laying that the Greekes Ofirya i s 
The Frenches Haijlrs Sc their Oxya the Frenches F oh fle an 
Both of them growing wilde in the woods, upon the 
mountaines or hils of Sidcro capfa in {^Macedonia , the CJer- 
manes tall it Buch baum, the Dutch Bnickenboom^nd we 
in Beeche. 
The Vert ties. 
The leaves of the Beeche tree arc cooling and binding 
and are therefore applyed unto hot fwellings to difculle 
them : the nuts are hot and moik in the firk degree, and 
thereby nourifh much all creatures that feed thereon. Be. 
tr W Crefcentim writeth , that the allies of the wood is 
good to make glaffe. Tragus faith that he hath prooved 
by good and often experience,that the water that is found 
m the hollow places of decaying Beeches will cure both 
man and beak of any fcurfe or Icabbe, or running tetters, 
if they be walked therewith: Ruellius reporteth that if a 
Viper or Adder beftrucken with a rod of the Bccchtree, 
or if it be but onely put unto it, it bath fuch power as to 
Itay the Viper from getting away while it is by it: the 
barke of the Beech tree is lo flexible, that many Country 
people doe double it, with afticke thruk through both 
udesat thetoppe, to carry Cherries, Strawberries, and 
many other fuch like things therein, which RUny alfo no- 
teth was ufed in his time. 
I 'he Theater of 'Plants. C h 
ap,ii, 14® 
Fa^ta. The Beech tree. 
Chap. XI, 
Vlmns < The Elme. 
I. Cel f c. 
ISlmf P/ r ’ H r V ? 0 ? Ur , moderne A^hours, have made mention onely of two forr, 
1 f Elm ' s > p ‘‘"7 hath made foure fores, which notwithttanding may be reduced into the former rw/ 
S have ohfervcdm our Country three forts, and Matter Q m di% a fourth bclidcs another ve™ IflL 
them, but yet notably differing, which flrall therefore bee fetdo.vne in the Chapter following by* 
T L„r, „ r I- Vlmmvul^rU. Our common Elme, 
- and not I ^ groW « h “P^r 
: thickeroughbarke, chap°orcrackth,‘ argC wkha 
peare before the leaves come forth are like fmall taffells ofred rhrrH */ Smoother, the bloffoirics that ap- 
'dead, broad flat whirilh skinnes, which are the felde being not much^nhke tbtefeSe* thdr r W* 
>4rrache, which doe fall away by dences.fomequickelv andfn^h Hi j i , of , tl,c white Garden fmbm* 
’ fully come forth,the leaves Jc of a fad ef'" 8 °T 1 g °° d wh ! le afccr ^ ‘eaves are 
. and crumpled for the moft parted den^ed“boutfaifeS 
then the ocher, and more eaten by all forts of cattle then anv nf rh* r «■ u ■ C r ,,„ e be * n g longer 
.thereon, which containe fmall wormes in them : the J b ”.l , . hwl " S “ rtam ? Email bladders or blitters 
, j ..viiavuiL, cciLdiuc imaii Diaaaers or blitters 
as the *^* : ^“* I* rithwcondnualty wet A dry! folong 
[ tk.'o u ^ batiarefolio. Broad leafed Elme or witch Hafell 
butfpredeththe branches m.e and falling 
but greater: the leaves “5 * u^J '* ' ikc the former in al 
“ fthe Haf =" ™>t. /tom whence it became^ al d *5* if ? the 
TUwvcr, 3. rimmfolugUin, Smooth leafed Elme or Witch Elme 
ming and frode aTfofs r hlTe e tho^gh'lcffc ^b^the^leaves^^rcofare tbe , bcn d* n S boughes and great body,the bloo- 
.effe unto the firtt yet not rougher crumpled taSteSSW" 6 f °‘* r S e as u thc laft > b« neereft in big- 
aer two have, the timber hefeof is „ qSSY nd »^ough afthffcft ™ a ^ h °“ tanybli , ftcrSOrl them > as the fora 
,ien the ttronger and more ferviceable kinds, ° ™ or rather more, ami is accounted ofworkc- 
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