Tr I B K 16, 
The Theater of Tkntu 
Si Utus immeritum morbo tehtatur acuto , 
Accenfum tinges Upidem fridentibus undu i 
Hi»cbibis : ant Aceritradicem tundij^gr una 
Cum vino capisjnoc pr<cfens madicamcn babetur] 
Ch a f 27 1427 
Thy barmelejfefidcjf fb.irpe difeafe invade t 
In biffing water quench an heated ftone, 
TbU drinke : Or CMaple roote ih panther made 
Take oft in Wine , a prcfent medicine bnowne , 
It is ufed in many Joyners works,elpccially the fined wrought grained wood, which Pliny peradventure meant 
hb \6 .c,\6. by chat which he there calieth 2 ?r«/cw,and Mollnfcmxht more excellent both of them as he faith, is 
tuber Acerii^ the knotty part of the cree, or of the roote thereof, which is held to be fuller of diverfified veine3 
theiein : either of U'hicb faith Pliny, if they were large enough to make a table, would excell the Cedar,as fome 
rake it, tut others thinke it fluuldbc Citrus the Citron. 
Chap, XXVII. 
1 . Platanus orientalU verm. The true Planetree of the Eaft Countries. 
Ecaufe in the lad Chapter it is fliewed that the French and others were utterly midaken in calling the 
Maple the Plane tree : I thought it mected to diew you which is the true kinde next theteunto and 
to /oync thereunto another fort,brought by Mr Tradefcant, out of Virginia, it rifeth up to be a very 
great tree in time, fpreading very largely, the barke whereof is rugged, the leaves are very large, 
cut imo five divifions.and each of them deepelv gadied on the edges,greene above and whitifli underneath hang¬ 
ing by a dender reddifii dalke, the flowers are of a pale white colour, many fet together on a long Aalke after 
which follow fundry round rough bals of the big(iefleofWallnuts,made as it were a bur,but not flickin°,where- 
ui lye (mall feede,the wood is firme, bard,and yellowifh brovvne. s 
z. Platanm Occidentals ant Virginenfis , The Plane tree of the Wed parts or Virginia, 
T his Plane tree like wife groweth great, and fpreadeth fairely, whole leaves being broad and large, have not 
lo deepc di vifions in them, and the pills or burres are, although fome what rough with the complcac roundneffe 
not 1 o fliarpe as the former, which being fet hereby is utterly ipoyled in the cutting, they grow alfo manv hang- 
ingdowne from the ends ofthe branches, is in the others. 
1. THatanm Ormtalu zero*. 2. Platanm Occidentals aut Virginenfts. 
* hc true Plane trcc of the Eaft Country. The Plane tree of the part* or V.rginia. - 
