Tr.i b k i 6 . 
TheTheater of ‘P Unis, 
Chap. 5 8. i/^c 
Chap. LVIII: 
Tdmarlfctts, The Tamariske tree.’ 
Hare three or fourc forts of Tamariske,to bring to your confideration,one whereof was never pub- 
lifhed or made knowne to the world,before I gave you a hint thereof in my former Bookc, which I 
meane to rankc with the reft here. 
i. 7 amarif cm folio latiore, The germane or broadar leafed Tamariske. 
The broader leafed Tamariske groweth but low in fundry places, over that it doth in other, fori 
have obferved it growne in fome places where it hath ftood very many yeares to be a reafonab.'c great tree,whole 
barke was fomewhat thicke and rugged, of a darke reddifh colour, the younger (hoetes being reddilli at the firft fl 
grecne after,and blackilh when they arc dry, befet all about with fine long darke greenc leaves, as it were cra¬ 
ped becaufe they are to fmall and fhort,that ftand 
about the longer, yet are they greater and broa¬ 
der then the French kinde .* at the end of the 
young fhootes come forth a long fpike of flow¬ 
ers and leaves among them, each flower being 
made of five purplifti leaves like threds,divers ot 
them (landing in a greenc huskc together, in 
which htiskes when the flowers are paft, grow 
feede lying among them, which together are 
carryed away with the winde : the leaves fall a- 
way every Autumne, and fpring anew in the 
Spring. 
t. Tamarifcuefolijs albidij. 
White Tamariske. 
Of this kinde I have feene another fort very 
beautifull and rare, brought me by Mafter Wil- 
iiamfVArd ’ the Kings chiefe fervant in his Gra¬ 
nary, from his houfeat Roram in FJfex, whole 
branches were all red, while they were young, 
and all the leaves white, abiding fo all the Sum¬ 
mer,without changing into any fticw of gr ene 
like the other,and fo abideth conftantly yeareaf¬ 
ter yeare,yet (bedding the leaves in Winter like 
the other. 
?. Tamarifew folio tenttiore 
The French or finer leafed Tamarike.' 
This finer leafed Tamariske doth in many pla¬ 
ces grow but into a fmall (hrubbe alfo, but in o- 
thers into a great thicke and tall tree, with many 
fpreading armes and branches, wh©fe leaves are 
let in the fame manner, and grow after the fame 
fafhion, but finer and (mailer like unto Heath, 
of a grayifh grecne colour: the flowers are lmal- 
ler,and grow fpike fafhion like the other, beiag 
purplifti at the firft, Luc white when they are 
blowncopen, confiftingof five leaves apeeoe, 
which turnc into downe with the fmall feede in 
them, and falleth away as the W illow and Pop¬ 
lar doc, but Lobel faith, they turne not into 
downc,bucthe fruice is round like Olliveftoncs, which as he faith being laid in the Sunnehave ftirred to and fro 
for three dayes together, having a worme within them, which was the chiefe caufe of the motion, and having 
made a hole in thegrainecommeth forth : which ofthefe is trueft, feeing both affirmc the matter as eyc-wit- 
neflfes of the relation,I know not, never having feene the tree bearc out his frnitc or feede with us. 
4 * Tamarifcw *s£oyptiagaiitvferens. The Tamariske. 
This tree groweth in Egipt t and other places of Syia^Arabia^wd Turkic ^Bellonius faith, who obferved it to 
be a wondrous great and high trec.growing as well in dry ground as in moift, whole woods of them growing to¬ 
gether in each foile, whole kind is of this laft delcribed, but befides, it beareth fmall hard excreflences, like unto 
great Gaules,of divers formes,fome Ionger.fome Chorter,fome broad,others thicke or (lender. 
The Pl«ce and Time. 
The firft groweth naturally in Germany ,in divers places,and as Cordus (aith,he obferved two forts, one growing 
neere the River of Rhine with a finer lcafe,and firmer wood, and a little pith, and another about the Tlanubius or 
Danow ,with broader leaves,and not fo firme wood i The fecond is declared in the defcription s The third grow¬ 
th not onely in Narbone^nd about LMompelicr } but in Spaine in divers places, as Clufrus fetteth it downe: the 
Uft in Arabia,Fgypt^nd the places neere thereabouts, they flower about the end of or in Iune ) and the feed 
is ripe and blownc away in the biginning of September. 
The Names'. 
It is called mGreeke puejitn i n Latine alfo Myrica^ and Tamarix, but of divers Tamariftus, and by Pliny Bri4 
Jy vcjtrit m Ac oaia as Lugduncnfis faith. The firft is called Tamarifcus ,and Tamarix humilu by £ ordus and others. 
t TAyiica fiveTamarijcut fpecicrum, 
T amaiiskc of three for is. 
