I53 2 ChAP.^2, 
Theatrum ‘Botanicum . 
Tribe 16 
in the naturall places, or where it groweth, both barke and fruite might be applyed for fuch like difeafes as the 
gumme is pat unto, which is very aflringentderving to redraine the fluxe of blood or humours, from any pans 
both in man and woman, aslaskes,the menlirues whites,and the gonorrhea: it is alfofaid cohtlpethedraneurv 
and (loppings of the urine, to fallen loofe teeth, 3rd is very available for the gummes are lpongy or with look 
flefb : it isgoodalfo to (lay the watering of the eyes, and to helpethofe places that are burnt with fire: Th- 
Goldfmiths and Glaliers ufeit much in their workes, the one for an enamell, and to feta foile under their prep- 
ous doncs,for their greater lufter; and the other by fire to flrikc a crimfon colour into glade, for Windowesct 
the like. I doe not know thac Painters can bring ic co be a fit colour to be ufed in their workes. 
Chap. XClI. 
Cedrtti magna Coni fern Lilrani. The great Cedar of Libnn ut. 
CcJns magva coma libmi. 
The great Cedar of Libmut. 
|jjHercd oiihz Arborcs rejiniffera, thofe trees thatbeare Rodins are to follow, which are thefe tl 
*®( beare Cones,being the great Cedar, the Pine cree.and all the forts thereof both tame and wild 
| Pitch tree, the Firretree, the Larch tr.e,the Cypred’e, andthe-^riw vita, or tree 'of life ' 1 j 
j fird of the great Cedar, This great Cedar groweth up with a great thicke upright body .taller tf” 
any other tree whatfoevtr dored with branches on all (ides, but fo ordered that the lower bran h ” 
fpread larged, and dill upward they grow fmaller up to the toppe, reprelcntiug the forme of a Pyramid orS^ 
garloafc.tothem th it view it afarreof; the greater and lowed branches with the body are fomewhac r is" d 
andfull ofehappes, but that of the upper branches is very 
lmcoth, and of an afli colour, and being tubbed away with 
ones nailes, appeareih greene underneath, and reddifh un¬ 
der that: the branches (ou.c fay grow all upright, but others 
flraighc out, and as ic were erode wife,flrong, but brittle, and 
eafie to be broken, not to be bended and fo placed abouc the 
body, one above anorher that they yeeldan eafie afeent up to 
the toppe,as it were by deps: the leaves grow many toge¬ 
ther, out ofa knot, which are {mall long and narrow, like 
unto thofe of the Larch tree,lomewhathard, but not ilaarpe 
at the end as they are, and (ofet, the longed being inihe 
middle, and the led'er on the ddcs, that they reprelentthe 
forme of a Painters pcnfell, abiding alwayes greene on the 
trees being fom»wbat (weetein fent.j little (owre, bitter 
and adringent in tade : it bearcth Cones that grow upright 
like as the Firredoth.net hanging down: as others doe, flen- 
derer then thofe of the Pitch tree, and thicker, greater, and 
harder then thofe of the Firre, fomewhat yellowifh and 
round at the end, made of many fcales, with afhortfoore- 
fialke to it, but fo firmely fet to the branch, that without 
breaking away fome ofthe wood of the branch, ic cannot be 
pulled away, yet the dales opening of themfelves, will fall 
away, leaving the dalke bare that went through the middle /. 
olchem, but this ic will not doe uni ill the nexc yc are after ic 
be ripe, for ic requireth one whole yeare co ripen, within 
which is the feede, as b'gge as Grape kernell;, fomewhac 
fweete in tade, bedewed with an oylie fubdance, thac isofa 
good fent: out of this tree 1 here commeth two fort of Rodin 
called Ccdri.t, the one thinne like unto that of the Firretree, 
which commeth forth by piercing the tree at the fundry knots 
while they be young and not covered with a rugged barke, 
and putting thereto an home, out of which ic mud runne : 
the other Rodin floweth forth of it owne accord, growing 
hard of it felfe thereon, which will fticke fo fad tothe teeth 
if it be chawed .that it wid hardly be pulled away againe, and 
being fmel'cd unto giveth a very fweete fent; the Wood is 
durable above all other.and not in many ages ycclding to cor¬ 
ruption. 
The Thee and Time, 
T his Cedar groweth on fundry meuntaines in Syria, and the parts ncerc thereunto, and the eolded parts of 
r-ncm that are covered with Inow a c * t:l ~— —i • . . . r . 
mem that are covered with (no w as ^mnn Wl Tnurus and Libanus, and not in many places elfe that have beene 
oblerved, the time ivdddared m the deicription to be a whole yeare in perfefling the fruite, and as Plin, faith, 
new coimc forth before the old are ripe, J 
The Names; 
j® called fn Grecke (not knowne to Dinfccridee t Galen er Plinj, as their workes teftifie, for 
theirs IS ™ berries like to lumper,or the : Mirtle ) and xityiS.,™ ejtufi CcMiee, becaufe ic 
oil- rlnTeh '?r hc G ?t". K te Dn *> l iba»i*,C*<lru you nave heard before what it is, namely Rodin that flour. 
- out of the tree, when it is bored or pcirced, asm the Firre and other trees: but Cednnm, which fomecall 
CcdrcUum 
