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, 5. Admchne. T!ic Strawberry tree with fmooth leaves. 
This other, trawberry tree groweth low and never feene fo high as the former ; but fo like thereunto that it 
IS dilcerned from it onely by thefe markes; the barke of the tree and branches is not rongh or rugged,but (mooch 
and tedder by much, both m young a,, d old branches like unto Corrall, yet Thccpbrtftm faith it hath a white 
, arke, which ic ^ like he meanuhof the under or new barke thatcommeth after the old faliethaway in Samir er. 
oi.i c ie - > Htus doth not fo: the leaves are fo like unto Bay leave^being alio fmooth and not dented on the edges 
that they are onely dtftmguifhed from them by the fmdl, thde having no fent, and the berries hereof a, e of a 
arker red colour,and fomewhat more fweete, the other being a little aul'terc orharlh, and fo calling on die 
tongue in the eating, & b 
. The Flace and Ti me. 
3 oththefe forts grow in the warmeEafternc Countryes abundantly as alfo in Greece, and the Iflesof the Me- 
" Seas,cfpic,ally in CW, on the hill,,and among the Rockes, but the fir ft efpeciallyin Italy, Spain, 
and Tome pirrs o France, and hath beeneof Istedayes Found in the Well part of hdJd, of a icalonablebigge 
(lie fora tree but with fmalkr fruiter it flowreth not onely in /«/>. in ihe warme Countries,but at other times 
of the yeare alfo.and the (rune fcarle ripeneth in a whole yeare, for I have leene a frelh branch,that was brought 
«ne with frefh fpvung flowers and ripe fruite thereon like wile,fo that it is ulually feene both with flowers and 
fruite at once. The AAubn, is every third yeare fpoyled of the cuter baike,and regaineth it quickely, andkee- 
pe;h the fame time with the other. n 1 
The Names. 
The fir ft: is called in Greeke wuagot Comarus i and the fruite foalfoby fotne # or v.t/Mitw\ov Mcm.ecjlon , as Dio- 
r S j fay ’ in d & Vnedo ' a,ld b y Ovid Fr ag a montan *. feme have thought that 
the Arbntw o(D,ofcondts and Th'ophraftu, were differing plants, becaufe their deferiptions were (o divers.buc 
by rhe judgement of the belt they are both one, the other is called in Greeke yetthe moft Greeke co¬ 
pies have but became Airaclmjs the herbe PortnUca, Pmflaine, which feme to diftineuift, would call 
tins Pmulac* arbor, but P /;»;i findeth the fault, and therefore calleth it AAachne and P.tnUanr'bor, lines which 
9 u«and Others have followed him therein : but the Greeks generally now adayes, as well as thole in Comfy 
callit ridrackU,2i Horortiu He/lm faith: all our moderne Writers call them, by the fame names, andnoothre 
then arc here let downe, except in Papyro, who attributeth all theft names to one plant Ok™ 
-OHarum, r utw & J'neany And ic is obferved that Galen faith in Italy among the viifear, Epimelu was called by 
the name ot Vnedo, peradventure becaufe the flowers of Spimelii arc very like ro thofc of A> but us or Vnedo , when 
as Epimclui s defined by him lei fe to be another plant, differing borh from Arbutus, Vnedo, or any of r Diofcor ides 
orts of LMefptlui. The Arabians call the Arbutw Hatiladib.xht Julians Albatro ,the Spaniards Madronho, and 
Madromeiro , the French Arbcttfier .the Dutch as not knovyne to them have no name that I can finde, and we call 
them 
