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rile, which he doth to Picea, as LngiUntnp fheweth very amply. Vi iruvim alfo erred with Pliny, i n fay¬ 
ing that the wood oi the Larch ttee did burne no othcuvUe then a Hone in the fire: that Fnchfim alfo was in an 
errour ■jMatthhhu fheweth, that thoaghtthc Venice Turpintinc was taken Irom the Firre tree, for he proteft- 
eth that upon his ownc knowledge and fight, it came from the Larch tree, he alio infifteih againfl Brafnvcl-.il 
that thought other trees had produced Jgaricke : but thofe of other trees were hard Mulhromes, fuch as we call 
Touchwood, which ferveth like tinder to receive fire llrucke from the flint,&c. all Authottrs call it in Latinc La. 
n.v,the Italians and Spaniards Lnice ,the French Melefe, the Cermanes Lerchenht:im,rnA we the Larch tree. 
The Virtues. 
I have fpoken fo fufficiently of both T urpintine and Agar icke, in the fecond Claflls of this Worke, that I can 
aide nothing mote thereto, and therefore to prevent a double repetition ofthe lame things, Imult referre you 
thereunto. 
Chap. XCIIII, 
P'mts. The Pine tree. 
Here are many forts of Pines, fome tame feme wild : of the tame kinde there is obterved little vari¬ 
ety : but of the wild much, tor tome grow on mountainesfarre diftantfi om the Sea, others onthe 
hills and places neere the lea, of all which,although they be many, I would make but one Chapter 
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and not leparacc them into any more 
i. Finns nr ban.: five domejlica. The manured Pine tree. 
:s, a'liamg continually oiuuc young urancucs, ara not railing away but from the elder: 
e (mall yellow catkins in the Winter, which fall away in the Spring as the cones encrea .e ..u, c 
or cones, that are !o.new bat long and rou.,d, grow very high on the branches, and are fomewhat great t then 
in any of the other forts, compocd of fundry hardand brovvne wooddy kales, lying dole oneunto and upon 
another, which when they open of themlelves, or are earned by the heate of the fire, doe (hew within them cer- 
t one hard flv.ls, which containc in each of them, a long and whit every fu-eete kernell, covered with a very thin 
reddifli t-kunis, that is cafily tubbed of ; the wood hereof is firmer; heavier and clofer grained then of the 
Tirre or Deale, reddilh alfo, and not (o (hort or brittle a: it is, and witli aktnde of moilfure about the heart This 
is not lo plcntiiull in yeeldmg either Rofli.i or Prtchof it fhouid be fo ordered as the wilde kindes, 
i. Tir.ut nrbma fivcdome/hu. 
Thcnunuioi Pmc ir c. 
P'-nut fylvtftris mo :t2?.ifrnfi fen. 
Thcfiuiccfu ‘1 wildc Pincur-e. 
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