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Tlx f BE 1 6 , 
The Theater of Tlants. 
i. Ttlianuu. The male Line tree. 
Ch a f. 13. 
2 . Til:afxm,na major- 1 he great female Line tree. 
die ribbe whereof fpringeth outaflcnder longftalke, with divers white (lowers thereon, fmelling very 
liveete.alter which follow fmall berries wherein is contained blacke round (cede .* Gerrard faith it bcaieth cor¬ 
nered fharpe pointed nuts of the bignt Ife of Hafell nuts,(but fuch I never law) and. faith that the male kinde doth 
beare round pellets cluftring together like Ivy berries, wherein is blacke feede, wherein hec transferreth that to 
the male kinde, which is proper to the female : the wood is wh'tifbflnooth and li^ht, tbecoales whereof is fic- 
telt to make Gunpouther withall. At the rootes and under the old trees of this Linden, Tragw faith he lome- Vu* 
times obferved to grow a certaine Excrelfencc like unto the Oke grape, whereof he knew no ule. jQuexine 
3. 7 V ha femina minor. The fmaller female Line tree. {mite. _ 
This Ieflcr Line tree agreeth with the laft in all things, faving that ic grovveth fmaller both in body,leaves and 
flowers,the leaves being of a darker greenc colour, and beared) no fruite after the flowers,becaufc thev apneare 
later then the former. 3 
' The ?Lace and Time. 
They all grow on the hills and high grounds,yet for the molt pai t in the moifter places, and are often found al¬ 
io in vallies: with us the greater female kinde is planted in many places of our Land,chiefly for the large fweete 
fliadow it makecb,and flowi cch ufually in M*j ,the other are very great ftrar.-gers in this Land, fcarcc to be feene 
any where. 
The Names, 
Ic is called in Greek ei‘h?eyPMjr.i, but not as Pliny, that confoundeth Diofccridr, his Pbihreet, with 
Tbcophaftrw his Phdjr A , fo called becaufe it is brought into timies affair five philjrae fmall thin flscetes or leaves 
luch as in the elder times they tiled to writeon: in Latin eTi/ia, the one it called was, and the other/iwina bv 
all Writers,but that r B«ubin m addethunro the title of the mas,V/mtfil,t>, and further faith, that the figures there¬ 
of evant,are rather of the Elme tnen of;t. Tragic onely and Gefntr infwrrw.have made mention of the LA as of 
a differing fojc from the ordinary female kinde. The Italian, call ic Til,a, the Spaniard, Trie,, the French TUlet 
TetllenmdTeil .the german. Linden, and Lindenbaum, fortbe fmoothreffe and foftnefle thereof, the Da tr'h 
Lir.de, and Ur.d,oeem m d we thereafter the Line or LindentrSe, and in fame places, broad leafed Elme. Plir,y] n 
his lo.Booke Slid 1 6 Chapter,(heweth tint among the Tibxrt,, the Linefrees were Icene to beare fundry forts of 
fruits for on one arme grew Nuts on another Grapes, on another Peares or Figs,or Pomegarnets, and divers fo rs 
of App es.but they all were not of long continuant e. 
The Vertues. 
The male kinde is quite without ufe for any thing that I know, nothing being extant thereof in are 
Authours writings The female is of much ufe, tor the deerftion of the leaves is a good Locionio wafh fore 
motithes, or that have canckers in them : the leaves alio being bruifed after the boyling, and applved -o 
their leggesor feetc that.have tumours inthem by falling of humours, doth much helpe them™ the ir° 
j e n n a !| ke I,k ' Wlf l P erform f c h the like effeft: the flowers of the Line tree, and u! Li ly Convally, being 
deftilled together, the water of them is much commended againft the falling fickeneffe : tiic deflilied water of 
the 
