I426 ChAP.26. 
T beatrmt Bctaracum, 
T K 1B E l6. 
4 . Mer Creticam tri/clium. 
The thiec leaded toaple tree. 
and a tall tree,tpreading many tairc branches,which make',a t 'goodly (badow, covered with a reasonable Smooth 
barke, having many very faire large leaves thereon, fetupon reddifh fooceftalkcs, cut Somewhat deepcly into 
five Somewhat long parts or divifions, all dented about the edges, grecne above and grayifh underneath, the 
flowers are of a whitith yellow greene colour, (landing on a long ftalke, with Some few chreds within them,each 
flower yeelding two winged hmkes, parted at the ftalke, 
which are thinne skinnes at the ends, and bunched our, 
where the Sccde lyeth within, and are very like unto the 
common or wood Maple,but much larger,and many more 
(landing together *• the wood is whitilh and Smooth, but 
not So white, Smooth,and dole,as the wood kindc is, 
2. Acer minw five vulgarc. 
Our common or wood Maple tree. 
The common Maple tree groweeh lower & flower then 
the former,Somtimes in hedges,no higher then thole other 
hedge bufhes,or els much highe rcovered with a more rug¬ 
ged barke,(prtading neither So far nor luchgreat blanches, 
the leaves are much Smaller, thinner and not So deepely 
cut in, hut yet divided into five parts* and Somewhat 
broad, at the letting on of the (hike, of a deepe and (Li¬ 
ning g een colour on the upperfide,and paler underneath: 
the flowers and (cede are ve>y like the former, but (ewer 
Set on the (bikes,and leffer alio in bulke or bignefle; the 
wood hereof is very white, very lmooth, and very cloSe 
grained. 
5. Acer montanum, 
Themountaine Maple tree. 
This Map'e difflreth little from the laft, that groweth 
well and great, differing chiefely in tie kale which is not 
flat next unto the ftalke,and is Somewhat deepelier cut in¬ 
to more duvifions. 
4.. Acer Creticum trifolium. 
The three leafed Maple of Candy. 
This Maple groweth to be a tree of a meane fife, fprea* 
ding branches reafonable well, the barke whereof is of, drrke reddifli colour, having broad greene leaves full 
of veines,divided into three parts, handing equally diltant one from another,with a long (lender footelialkc un¬ 
der them, the flowers Hand onely a couple cegether on the ftalke, as the feede that followeth doth alfo winged 
Somewhat like the laft but Smaller. * b 
T be F lace andTime , 
The firfl is no where found wilde or naturall in our Land that I can Iearne, but onely planted in Orchards or 
walkes for the fhadowes fake, but groweth in fundry places in Germany, efc.The fecond and third are found both 
on high and lo„ grounds, in Woods, and Groves. Parkes, Chafes, and the like through mod Countries of this 
Kingdom:,the one in the moiftcr grounds, where the wood will be loofer,and the other in the dryer grounds fir¬ 
mer and cloler; but the laft is alio a (tranger to us growing about MomfcUer and Candy, they all flower about the 
middle of April/ 1 and the Iced is ripe in the end of September. 
The 'Names. 
it is ca'lef in G ecke -» ■G- Spknd,mn m , in iat/ne Acer. The fiifl is that which Clufm calleth latif.liam, 
hccaufc i; h .th the grtattft and broadtft leaves of any, and therefore Tragm calleth it PUtanm, thinking asdr- 
v-.rs did, h it ic was the true J'tatanw, and therefore the French did call it Time, before the true one was difeo- 
vered and knowne. Raclhw and after him many others called it Syc«mrut the Syco,note tree, which in divers 
Countries doth dill continue, and with usalfe being called ulually the Sycomore tree : but by this name of Syce. 
the Sycomorettce. divers Writers have railed divers trees, asfirftthe true Sycomore or Mulberry Figge, 
called ofdivers FtcutPbaraonts Ftca, rAlgypna, Moras ^£gyp„a, and FicaiCypria. Ma„b,o!«, and others fay 
tint the Ital.ans call the Atadtrach by the name of Sycomoras . And Petra, Crefccntias, calleth the Ftroafanoainea 
by the name of S ycomorw. And laltly RaeUm, and others fay that this Acer latifolium, is called Sjtmorts ve! 
C/: f“ faith that the recall the1 leffer or wood fort fb. The fecond is that which is molt frequent in 
our Land, and called Acertenutfolia, by Cord,,, m b.fior. Acer minor by Dtdmcvc, Clufm, and Camerarius Opto 
by the Romanes,Opalas by Gefnerin bones, and Cerdas, and Of ulus campejlri, by Lacdanenfis, who alfo taketht 
to be Carp,me, but not rightly.The third is the Acerb altera fpecies, yaa forte Zyoia TbcophrJfli of Lot,el, by Bed,. 
Acermo»tatiHm,flavttm & cnfpum, and A/phendamnos by the Country men of Candy, by Lueduncnfis Opa. 
las montanu , and can be no other then the Zjgia of Tbcophrafias,which Gaza calleth Carpinsts, which differeth 
muen from the 0/7/,which fome as is before (aid call Carpimts. And the laft his Glinon, which hce rendereth 
Gall, cam The Italian, a\Ut Piedoca,t n d Platans acyaaticp, the French Enable, .the Germane, UMafs holder the 
common fort, and Aborne the greateft, the Dutch Laytenboat, and we in Englifb Maple, and feme, but as falfly 
as the French or any other,the Plane tree, * r * 7 
^ . The Vertues t 
, Neither nor G«/C», in his cenfure of fimplcs.make any mention of this tree, yet lib. I.mei. pan. 
' 7 f dlCmCS for th u e ^.written by Afclep.as, he appointeth adramme of the roote to be beaten to 
poutner, and given in water,but £»«*•;» doubteth rhat the word is miftaken, becaufe none of the Greeke Wri- 
ded anv'oftbrC Ji° r tbt “ U bv “ uftd in ^ difeale ’ And none but Pliny hath recor- 
d , cd r n 7 f ch ^ MapleSjbuc faith that the roote of the Maple being bruifed,is applyed with very great effeift unto 
(Swing • ° baruaions ’ or oth " P**>« ** Splecne,which Serena, delivemh in thefe Ver- 
