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'/he '1 heater of Plants. 
Ch/u\26. 
The Names. 
It pleafeth Gefrer to name the firft Ckamxmefpilum, whom alrnoft all finte have followed, and called Coin like 
manner, onely Lugdanenfis callcthit Epimelte, and maketh icthe Mejpi.'m of 'Diojconde,- whiih he laithfotne 
called Epimilu, and tome */«/«w»,when as himfclfe faith in his Chapter of Medlars, that Diojconde, his Me!pi. 
's our common Medlar.whofefruite as well as tree is farregteater then of this. The lecond is the 
Epimeluof Galen, whereof he maketh mention lib. 6 .fimpl. medic. and diffeieth from the Medlar lo cailed, 
whereof he fpeaketh in another plate; for he faith chat the fruite hereof is fowre, andhurtfull to tbeltomacke, 
and that the Country people of Italy dtdcallitfWs, (which is probable they didfo, becauiethe bloilbmes are 
very like thofc of the Arbutu, which is alfo called Vnedo) Lngdmenfia calleth it Epimeh, alter*, but is not C/rf- 
m his third Vit„ Idea, as he thmketb, whith hath blacke berries, but this hath red as he deferibeth it, and theie- 
tore therein wa, deceived, yet thinketh it to be the Cotomjler of £«/*«-,which C/ttfim contradiffeth The third 
is indeede the C«»w/?»r of gefner, which Clttfim alfo mentioneth in his hiflory of plants, with his Ckmuemefti- 
f nd F,tu r U£a - Bmbtmts maketh a doubc whether it be not the Agriomelet, of TSehnim Bauhmm feemeth to 
make two feyerall plants thereof, as may be feene in his Pinax. Thele plants hive gotten fundry Germane names 
amongtht ‘.AIM inhabitants and others, as by thele divers names in Larine deiivtd, for the Germane may be ea- 
ltly underltood, and becaule we wanted names to call them by, I have given it them as r.eere a, I can either from 
the Latine or their proper effects,arid thus much may fuffice untill we further be informed of them. ' 
The VertHes , 
There can be little faid of any of thefe plants, feeing fo little hath beenefaid by thofemoderne Authours that 
hrit wrote of them; for fome of them being dry berries, are wholly neglecTed, and the other that have tome 
better relhfh or fweetetalle, are onely eaten by the Mountainers and their children, and not applycdas tnedict- 
naole ror any grtefc. J 
Chap. XXVI. 
Acer. The Maple tree. 
?Hete arc onely foure forts of Maple trees knowne to us.that I am to (hew you, but Bauhinm doth cK- 
fltinguifh them into foure thus, Spheodamnm i s that Maple that is white and full of veines, Zitiaa 
J yellow and crtfpt, Climtrechm rs yellow and not crifpt, GUnm is white with few veines, bile wes 
mult give them you by other termes. 
1 • Ac " ma i M Dtifotium Sycomsrue diblam. The great broad leafed Maple or Sicomore tree 
The great Maple (which hath beene with many falfely called the Sycomore creejgrowecb quickly to be a tjreac 
i. yAcer maiiuiatifolium Svcomorut {alfo di&unt. , a --- __ 
i. yAcer ma/ui iattfolium Sycomorm jalfo diflum. 
The great broad leafed Maple or Sycomore tree* 
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Our common wood M»ple and the mounuine kinds ; 
