1428 Chap.28. 'Tkeatrum ‘Botanicum. Tribp 16 
The Place and Time, 
The former groweth not naturally in any Country of£«ropt,butin A/ia,Syria Egypt, and Africa many,and they 
are planted alfo by the way fides,and in market places, for the (hadowcs fake onely : icistound with very ft vf 
in our Chriftian world,and thole onely great lovers ot rarities, being very tender, notenduring without extra¬ 
ordinary care and keeping,the cold ot our climates,the other is but lately brought ftomVirginiabv M .Tradefcant 
T he Names. 
It is called in Greeke, and Plat anus in Lat'me,a late diffufis ramie nomen fortita eft : and by this name 
all Auchouis have called it that have written of it. The Arabians call it Bulb, the Italians Platans the French 
Platane t \\m ii m ay differre from the P lafne, whereby as is faid they call the Maple, the Germanes know it not 
and therefore they and the Dutch have nopcculier name, but as they take it f ro m the French Plane , even as we 
doe alto, calling it the Plane tree : Diofcerides calleth the iruite or burtes and Pliny PiluU, Th ePirgiaian 
being to like the other can have no other name. The Vertttes _ 
Galen faith that the 1 lane is of a moift and cold nature,but not (arte from a temperate, and therefore the °reen 
leaves bruited and laid on inflammations and hot fwellings doe helpe them,but the barke and the btirres are more 
drying.which being boyled in vinegar,is good to gargle the mouth for the paine of the teeth: the burres alfo fry- 
ed with fat is good againft burnings, the burnt barke mixed with water doth clenfe the skin of any feurfe, lepry, 
or other deformities of the skin, and doth dry up much alfo,old moift and tunning ulcers, fringing them to crca- 
trifing: there is faith Qalcn and ZHofcorides.a kinde of dull upon the leaves, which every one liiuft be cartful I to 
avoid,that it fall not into their eyes or eates,lea(l it put them to much paine, the burres drunke in wine rclifleth 
the venome of the Scorpion, and other venemous creatures, the young tender leaves boyled in wme.’andche 
eyes bathed therewith that have either rednefle or rheumes falue into them helpeih them. 
Chap. XXVIII. 
Baxter. The Boxc tree. 
He Boxc tree,hath two or three diverfitics obferved therein,which (hall be (hewed here,and with 
them another, which divers doe referre hereunto. 
r. Btexue mbervnlgaru. Our common Boxe tree. 
The Boxe tree groweth flnwly, and feldome groweth to any great body, or any great height, 
but when it is buffered, after a long time rifeth unto twife a mans height, and ot the bignt (Te of a 
mans thigh, with a grayilh barke, but in many places very low, fpread reafonablc well, with 
branches, whereon arc ftt many thicke fmall,fomewhst long and round pointed leaves, abiding aiwayes greene, 
larger,thicker,and greener then any ordinary Mittle leaves, greater ot lefler, as the bulhes be in grcatnefle, at the 
foote of the leaves come forth fmall greenilh flowers, which turne into whitifh round berries, with foute points 
at the toppes,with reddifhfeede within them : the wood is very foliddofe, of a whitifh yellow colour, audio 
heavy that it finketh being put into water. 
2. Btextsi aurattts. Guilded Boxe. 
Tr.is guilded Boxe groweth in like manner as the former.in fome places taller and greater then in others, the 
leaves are altogether like it,l ut that moll of the upper leaves in the Summer time will have a yellow lid or guard 
about the edges,and in nothing clfe d; ffering from the other. 
Chamebaxtu minor. Small low Boxe. 
This fmall Boxe groweth never high or great,and although neglected or fuffered yet dill it hath many (lender 
twigs tiling from the roote, and every branch apt to take roote, whereby it may quickely be propagated and en- 
crcaled, the leaves are much fma ler and liner then in the foi mer,and ot a deeper greenc colour,which never bore 
flower or feede that 1 could obferve or leame. 
4 - Tfeteio chamsbttxue. The baftard low Boxe. 
This fmaH low plant lycfl mod on the ground, with the (lender ruflilike greene branches, rooting as it fprea- 
deth, and not rifing a foote high having divers thicke hard leaves fet theron without order, fomewhat like unto 
Boxe leaves, or rather Mirtle leaves, being for the mod part pointed at the ends.cver abiding greencist the ends 
of the branches among the leaves come forth foure or live flowers of the fafhion of Peafe or Broom blolfomes, the 
uppermod part whereof is whitifh .and yellow ifh in the middle, butpurplilh lower, ar.d in fome purple above, 
and yellow Delow, after which come fmall flat cods like unto the broad Thtafpi, containing within them blackifh 
gray round feede like Vetches: the roote fpreadeth tough long branches in the ground.and abideth long. 
The P lace and Time. b b 
The firft is found with us in many woods,and wood grounds among other forts oftrecs, it is alfo planted in di¬ 
vers Orchards, or houfebackcfides, where it never groweth high, but fervethas abnfh to dry Linnenon, &c. 
The fecond hath bcene likewife found in fundry places of this land, bat onely neere thole that have it. The third 
groweth alfo in gardens being planted cither as a border to keepe up the beds,or as a hedge likewife to dry cloths 
on. The laft CInjiut found in fundry places of Attjlria, and Hungaria , and Cordtts on the hils in Bavaria,&c. 
1 he Names. 
Boxe is called »vf©- j n Greeke mxtrir w&A. adenfitate legni diciteir, and Btexus in Latine, and therefrom 
came ptxides the fmall veffcls or boxes to hold and containe things in them. Theophrajlns and Diefcaridess have 
butonefort, buc^/.^/hach ch'ree, the firft he calleth GaUicum, becauleit was made to grow into fpires or pil- 
lars, unto a great height. The fecond Oleetflrum, (but as T!alech, m pi !ls on piinj noteth, there is an errour in the 
rrultaking of the word,m fome Greeke copy that he followed, and for eiyeur%a.»&m, fecmdnm omnino agrefte 
e/e lie lookeittobedyetiamrHemOleaJtreemetfejis wholly wild,and not profitable for any thin" as the firft kind 
is, beingof a mod loathfome fent, not fit to fet againft the houfc fides, as the third is : Another errour Pliny 
hath, that he faith the head of leede is called Crate gees, which h: doth confound out ofTheopbrafttee thatfpeaketh 
of (r«ugns next after BuxhsJU. 3, e. 15. and a third errour herein is, that he faith the Boxebearcth'W/cnwon 
the 
