1458 Chaf. 35 ‘ 
Tbeatnw 'Botamcum. 
T RIB E l6. 
this bearethfruite in a plentiful! manner inche naturall places. Some:alfo would make it tobe the Salix Ame- 
as I faid in the former Chapter, becaule Coxa tranfiateth «y>& m Theephraflm unto . Amenna m Latme, 
Ub t c y and 22 .anda 3 . from whence f prang that errour. Some *bu£M*~nfi faith/^,33, weuldmore 
mHv make the?-* of Theophraflu, tobe thisi>v& Vi,ex, becaule of the different colours in the flowers of both, 
hr, sKIrewed in the Chapter before, Tb'opbnjhu pvnh white and blacke berries, aswell as flowers, to his 
but da w - P, ii ct h5, fsra -ir a kinde of Wine.fo that it can no way agree thereuntotill Authours 
call both thefe forts PitM or ^ Arabians 
cafto,tbe SpnJrd, GanUo caflo, the French Agnus caftue ,the German Schajfs rnuUcm, and Kenfch. 
Ump,zrA we in Englijh Chalte tree, 
f The J'frtttes. 
The leaves and (cede of the Chaffe tree as Galen faith, is hot and dry in the third degree, and of a very thinne 
effence or fubflance, foirpe alfo and binding,for to it declareth it telfc to them that ufe it yea the feede is percei¬ 
ved paincly to be fd hot that it procureth headache, yet being parched or fryed it will the leffe trouble the head, 
befides it diffolveth the wir.de in the Aomacke or belly bring trefh, but being fryed or parched much more: it 
reftrainech lfo the mitigations to Venery in any manner tifed and taken : thus farre unto whom P«« tm and 
Jr, I f doe content affixing the fame things. The leede bang drunke refifieth the bmngs of vtnemou. bea Is, 
Spiders or the like, and hepeth the droplie.and thole that are troubled with the ipleene, it alio procureth milke 
in womens breafts, it procureth their courfcs, and the ur.ne flopped, if a dramme thereof ,n pouther be taken m 
Wme or with Pennyroyallr it troubleth the head and caulech fleepe : thcdccod.on of the herbe andI feedesis 
very good for women troubled with thepainee of the motheror inflammations of the parts: the hot fume, 
thereof taken undcrneath.is no leffe ef&Aaall: applyed to the head tt eafeth the pames thereof, and with oyle and 
vinegar,the Lethargv.ar.d F tenfie: the fame alio made into a pulcis with Vine leaves and applyed to the cods 
that fiVfwolne andgrowne hard,doth helpe them: ins laid to helpe an ague, being taken before thefit.andbe- 
ng annointed therewith made up with oyle to provoke fwcate : the lame alfo ufcd to the l.mmes taketh away 
vearineffe upon travaile or labour: the leaves are almoll as effeflualUs the feede for all the purpofes aforefaid, 
and are good for wounds alfo: the feede ufcd with Barley meate doth moll.fie hard fwelhngs, and brake Itn- 
pofltttnes: and with niter and vinegar it helpeth freckles of the face j uied with honey it helpeth the fores m the 
mouth and throate. Ga’en although fo famous a writer and Pbyfitton contraryeth himfelfe in th.s one plant,once 
ortvvif, for having affirmed before that the leede hereof tshot and dry hh. I. Ahmentornm he faith, having 
fpoken of the properties of H etnpe feede, that tie feede of V.tex doth reflrame Vcncreous defires,and giveth ltt- 
t c nourifliment to the body, and that bccaufe it 1 cooling and drying. In another place he laith (lpeamng of Ar. 
chitrencs medicines for the headache,' among other things, that of the leaves of the Bay tree, he Poplar and the 
Vitexax Chafle tree with vinegar and oyle, he made a medicine of differing propemes. for the: Bay tree leaves 
are verv ho'.and thofe of the Chafle tree moderately cold, ana in the meant berweene both are the Poplar leaves: 
in both which places you fee he maketh this Chafle tree to be cold when before lie had p iced itjnct among thofe 
hat were temperate, but in the third degree of heate yet fome of good W tt to free Galen from this lair errour, 
would invert the Text and fay that the Bay leaves are the hotted,the Poplar the coldefl,and the Chafle tree leaves 
a Lccane betweene them both. 
Cma.'. XXXV. 
OUa, The Ollivc tree. 
He Oilive is difUnguifried into the tame or manured Ollive, and into the wild fort: for although 
the old Writers,as Tliny. C ol,imelia > and others let downe ten forts, which they called by ie- 
verall names, which whether it were in thefe a* in the diverfities of Vines, wee know not our 
climate not fitting their growing, or according to Wines, which according to the feveraJl cli¬ 
mates and ioyles, gave fweeter orharfher, weaker or ftronger Wine, one then another, and lo 
-nn greater or letter Oilives, and tweeter or ftronget oyle one then another : for divers doe account 
themtobc differing in ftecie, one from another, as our Apples,Pcares,and Cherries doe. 
1 . Oleafativ*. The manuied Olive tree. 
The manured Ollive tree rifeth in fome place to be very tall, and very grear, like a great Wallnut tree,in others 
not ofhalfe that height and greatneffe, with divers armes and branches not vc-y ihickely let ^ cre °" 
crow fomewhat long and narrow leaves like the Willowes but leffer.and (hotter, thre e, fat, and foar^e poin¬ 
ted with Chore footdfclkc' under them, greemflv above and whitiflt underneath,never falling oft thetree.ot a bit¬ 
ter tafle and lomewhat fharpe withall: the bloffomes are many fet together at the jovntswith 1ihcleav es^ fmall 
and of a greenifh white colour,made of foure leaves a peece, after which come round and fomewhat l°"g lcr 
ries.greene at the firft.and changing pale afterwards,and then purplifh, and laftly, when they are full_«P .0 
deepe blacke,and iome white when they arc ripe, as Ctnfi.ee laith he ob.erved: tome are great «hw.« e fmall, 
and tome of a means fife betweene both, fome are longer, and lome rounder then others, tome ate fitter to e, 
and yeeld not much oyle,others are not to fit to cate, and arc fmaller.y eeluing more Acre c.f oyle, leme aga ne e 
gathered unripe and pickled up in brine,(which are the Olltves we ule to eatc with meate) others ate In flit_d to 
grow ripe, and then pickled or dryed.and kept all the yeare, to be eaten as every oneldhOf thofe Olltves where¬ 
of oyle is made, lome ovle will be delicate fweeteand neatc, others more fatty or full and flrong,tome upon t e 
tafle will leave no bittemeffe or heate in the month, but will tafle as (weete as but er, others againe '' / t 
or leffe hot and unpleafant in tafle, the wood is faire, firmc.and folid lull of curld veines,and as apt to burne Whe 
ic is greenc as dry,and will not rot in a long time. 
a. Oleaftcrfivc Olea fjfoeftru. The wild llive tree. . 
This wildc Ollive tree groweth lomewhat like unto the manured, but that it hath harder a ma ei eas s, 
and thicker fee on the branches, with limdry fliarpe thornes among the leaves ; theblofiomesan rul v 
