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The Theater 0} Plants. 
Chap,c^, 
7. Pinm maritime minor. The leffer or d warfe Sea Pme tree. 
The lefler Sea P me Icarle rifeih to the height of a man, fall of more flender and pliant branches then the for 
mer, not covered with forugged a barke, nor fpreadingio truth, the leaves ire verv (l-ndr,- n, 'l V e t T " 
hard^theGdnesateUke.I'efferandnende^er, a^d fo ar!\he 
. 8. Pinafterpkmilio montanw, The dwarfe mountaine Pine tree. 
T his dwarfe Pine rifeth to a mans height, branching forth from the ground into fomewhar lamp arm?* „ a 
covered wtth athicke nagged batke, Reading about". the leaves ftanl by co^cs a"^iorm 
but thicker (hotter and blunter pomted, and of a (adder gtcene then in the firft wild kinde, the cones are 
little ifbovc an inch long, not much bigger then the Larch tree cones, but mo, e round at the head and (rnaTrr 
downe as all the others, the fhell of the nut within i, Winged as 
Thecrookcd mountaine Pine with thin leaves. 
0 Jrrer rk/ " k eS OT writhcd and not ft^'ighr 3 the leaves then on are very thinne ale' 
jhorter then many others, t wo joyned togc.her round about the branches,at the ends whereof come fnrrh r-rr^ C 
(mall fcaly catkins of a purplift colour which fall away into a fmall pouthcr, and after them come n the ,n ddT 
anew fptout of leaves inclofcd in acertaineskin: \hecon^ 
T J;°' f r ‘‘ ,,, Z e ^ Uo r<l*P‘tU'Ic!»!tl’uu 1 he crooked mountaine Pine with broader leaves 
This other crooked Pine huh (uch alike body and branches as the laft, fpreading much and wirh 
baike, the leaves ire br aaer alfo, (harper pointed and fiiorrer then they, and of a darker-reene colour ^ 
the catkins commirtg forth at the ends of the branches like the laft, are of a yellowilh greene colour and 
pie as they arc,aft;r wh ch come new leaves in the like manner: the cones are fmaller then they “ P " 
The Place and Time, 
The firfi tame kinde is found planted in fundry places of divers Countries, for the beauty of the tree whh his 
ever greene leaves, yet a: e they found alfo wild about Ravenna towards the Sea fide The rvhrr ihr* ^ 23 
both in Spainc,ltalj,ani Germany and the parts neere ad joyning, and the Sea kiiides necre the Sea ; ' SS ' 0W 
places and upon the Land alfo Jcl.fi* hath obferved ■ ihecatkms of many "meforth^Lthc Wimer and fal^ 
^^otf^ers^n^ofayeareafteuhe^ringing!!^ th ^ ^™ te °ffome of them being ripe in the end of Autumns 
. The Names > 'j 
The Pine tree is called in CreckeW*,,, in Latin zPmw, the Cones are called mm, in Lari,re Com andrhc' 
TH 2 r tT ? rfek i, ES but now lhc kcrnelsart fo called,the kernels within them™'/,* as s f e 
l\ Wh k°“ Uthboth thofe ofthc Pinc and ofth ^ Pitch tree by that name/whereof ZthlZ ft, n 
in-fortUT t e P C 9 m ° nm3 ’ tbe W0 [ d P i tch trcC bein S ‘Uruft ^0 the Tea without any ground of tea- 
ion. PamramfruSm • and rh.. , , . .. 
heTl "p Cdlble > and , not tbe Pit* t' te. That W*» which Theophrafitu, Diofcmdcs, am | Galen ftlewerfi ' ftoSd 
do S m pV rC ?' Jnd c n0t * e Pkch tree * may bC m£WCd in div ™ ^ out’of Galen and others 
oth mifiake them,from the UkenelTe of Pence to Picca, and P ityy to Pinw, as alfo Pence to Lari ■ ■ and 
as muchdn' l" d °'^ f ° air ° J and Ga ™ foretimes tranflateth them righr.and fometimes wrong, but there m be 
•I,cmoitf : what tree Dtofcerider, and Tbeophrejfm meant by whether the Pitch ? as ic is thought by 
ter .f“ d,c,ousc t io mt fort of p me , becaufe ‘piofcorides putteth them both together in the title of the Chap? 
them b.ork k’ y " crc b ethof onckmdc,and yet faith fome held them to be divers forts, and nameth the fruit-of 
that the Pftdi toe doth i t Phe ? VCd i h "? bef ° re ’ when as it is plainely knowne to all that have oblirved them , 
Pitch and rk, c d ‘“? re re,emble the Flrrc then tbe Pme . ai being; no other difference betweene them the 
rrnr/ , £ be Firre, then betweene male and female,as I fhall fiiew you after a while and there is or-are/dW 
SSS h r d;btP r" C - then there is of the Piucs among themlclvcs”:- ancfT^e^ti oajbk aho’ 
which L P ‘ 0 J - ??°^ CS namcc h Til ntayexty as if there fliould be tw:d forrs.af Pitch trees a tame and a uni \ 
itis, (htweththere'dine of dift Cd - as be dotb of lbc pill . e « 1 fe °w to mend this matter, that l„£ 
j.... , c tntr.e reading of to be underftood pcea oaNifolmh. two words in his 
a;::Lr!rF"'S 
pecu'imhir linr c [ otaken ' K ''hTkcophraJlm znd others, yet that letteth not, but that there might be alfo a tree 
norinhisrmHr f. 'r nJ / I ' e0f7 —' 1C beln ,S hom ’”’emia, a word of divers fignifications, and that elfo Time was 
fc-lfe derl.r? h ■ enfc! ’ a PP 01 ” c a peculiar kmde, and knew it was appropriated to corrupt trees alfo ashim- 
and ^' 1 ma n y P'k CS f'°° keS -. The firlt here fet d °wne is called Tim , 
ana vt.igatijjirnaby all Authours that hive wntren thereof. The fernnd is nllrd PGu< r-U, a ■ J n’e 
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