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4 . Coggjgria five Cotintu Coriaria , 
Venice Sumacke. 
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5 . Wwfylveftris five Myrtut B r xbantm m Aniliti 
Swccte Gaujc. 
leaves and young branches, doe Dyfe a blacke colour • and with the barke they Tanne leather, as with the other* 
5. Rhus fylvefiris five CMyrtw Brabanticaaut Anglica, Swcete Gaule. 
This other plant which as I faid is fit to bejoynedtothereft, is afmall low fhrub or wooddy bufh,not above 
a yard high, fpreading (lender branches; with many browncyellowifligrcene leaves Tome what long, narrow, 
chicke and fatcifh,round pointed, relembling both Boxc and Mirtle leaves in Tome fort, but fmelling fomewhac 
ftrong and fweete, the flowers are yellow* and (laud upon fhorc ftalkes, comcning forth at the joynts with the 
leaves in (mail tufts,many fet together, which being paft.thc faid ftalkes are plentifully ftored with cornered yel- 
lowifh feede, bedewed with a clammy moiflure, of a very bitter unpleafant talle, but flrong fweete fent s the 
roote is hard and wooddy. 
The Place ana Time], 
The fieft groweth in Syria and Pontus, as Galen faith ; in Italy and Spaine as Pliny faith, and in divers other 
places, where it is manured as carefully as their Vines, and 2s C/ufius faith he law it fo ordered in Spaine, which 
ycelded the Owners great profit, the fecond groweth naturally in Virginia, from whence we had ic. The third 
about Montpelier, and in fimdry other places. The fourth in Savoy, and on the Appenine htls and elfe where. The 
lalt groweth in many places of our ownc Land, as well as beyond the Sea, as inS uFex,HartfordJ 1 nre and Kent. 
and by old JVindfor Parke corner. 
The Names.' 
It is called in Greekc iW, and by Hippocrates p»©-, in Latine alio Rhus, for Pliny faith it hath no Latine namfi 
although Gaza calleth it Fluida luppofing the name to be derived from fa jiao, but ic is rather a rubore velcolore 
cocctneo acinorttm, and therefore it was called 4p v$&' t from whence the Latine Rujfus, and the French Roux came. 
It is called Rhus fimply by fome, as Matthiolus &c. Rhus coriariaby Dodon^us, and Rhus obfoniorum by Lobel t 
Camerariw,C lupus ^ and others, and Sumach both by fhops and in Rauwolfius, or Sumach Arabum , becaufeit 
was called Rhus Syriaca by lome, it was thought to differ from the former, as alfo, that Rhus culmaria and 
oortaria or rubra, did differ one from another, and were feverall forts, but Pattlus zAEgineta, doth plainely 
lhew that the feede and juyee of Rhus coriaria was ufed by Phyfitions: another errour Cclftts (hewed, that Cooke 
the Rhus Sjriaca to be Ros Syriacw, a kindc of c Jlfanna, and therefore called ic rorem Syriacum, inftead of Rboeni 
Syriacum, and rorem futorium for Rboen Syriacum,ox c or iarior um,not futorum } zs it is in Columella : neir- er fhould 
it be Ros marinus , but Rhus marinus, or Rhus Orientals vaCMarcellus who appointethit for dilenceries and the 
‘ nat ^ ecne ^ et ouc hy any before me, onely 'RaubiMui feemeth to touch upon it, calling it 
Rhus angujtifelium, faying it was brought out from Braffile. The third is thought by moft to be the Rhus/ylvefirts 
of Pliny, that hath Myrtle like leaves, and lo called by Lo b cl,Do dons, us ,^nd Lugdunenfis, and Rhus Pliny A-fyrti- 
folia Monffielienpum by Gejner and Lobel : yet fome doe thinkc it better agreetn with the‘Dryopbonon of ‘Pliny ; 
the fourth is the w>Kwmhta, 0 f Theopbraflus, which Gaza tranflateth Prumts, but fhould be rattier which 
iheweth that Cjaza was flenderly advifed to give the word fuch a name that a Plumme fhould bcare a feede to be 
carryed away with the winde, Pliny calleth it Cogfry^riea, ocCoggyria t yet fome have it Coccyoria : fome alfo 
tninkeittobe the Cotinus Pliny, and for a diftinftion betweene it and the Ofeafier, which is called Cotinus 
alio, they call this Cotintts coriaria Pliny, in imitation whereof as it is thought,thofe that dwell at the coupes of 
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