Clf A PrUJ 
c Iheatrum Botamaim, 
1 R 1 B k l7 
Chap. CXVH. ArlmBuflia. The Braltiil tree. 
Arbor Brafilia. The Braffill tree.’ 
B He tree that beareth the Braffill wood 
which ferveth the Dyers ufc, and to 
make Inke is a goodly faire great tree 
growing in divers places of the coun¬ 
trey of Braffill, and in no ether place 
as it is thought, and the chiefcfl about Ftrnam- 
£«c(tfrom whence have rifenthe appellations to 
the weod : the leaves wherewith it is cloathed 
are as Imall as Box leaves, thicke and evergreene 
like them, thebarkeis ofanafh colour, and the 
wood red, efpecially the core or heart thereof 
which is the bell, and as it is faid is no bigger then 
a mans heigh,though the tree be fobigge in cam- 
paffe that three men cannot fathome it. This as 
ltisfaidalfoboareth neither fruit nor gum.butl 
wonder then how fo many could be found grow¬ 
ing there ? could the earth of it felfe thinke you 
Without (cede bring forth that afcoondance / or 
will not time confume them all ? finely it cannot 
be but that it beareth feede, and is thereby pro¬ 
pagated although not obferved.&c. 
XVIII. 
ArberTrifla. The forrowfull tree. 
He tree that beareth this name from the properties rileth to be a rcifonable tall, fpreading fun- 
dry flendcr branches and faire leaves fetby couples on 
them, very like unto the large or great Myrtle leaves 
and fmallcr then thofe of the Plum tree, little or no ■ 
thing fnipt about the edges.a little rough, and grccne 
on the upper fide and gray underneath • at each j'oynt 
with the leaves towards the ends ot the branches on both Tides 
come forth (lender reddifli yellow footdalkes wherewith they co¬ 
lour their brothsand meatesycllow like Saffron, bearing three or 
foure,or more flowers together thereon, compofed of fundry (mall 
white leaves pointed at the ends, making a double flower, with 
clivers fmall threds in the middle, fmdling fo fweec that they are 
thought to exceedc eyther the Orrange or Ufnimc flowers, whofe 
propertie is never to blow open in the day time, but in the night 
onely (when its time of flowring is) for fo foone as the Sunne 
(hineth thereon in the morning, they all far the mod part fall 
downe under the tree,and the whole tree with the branches feeme 
as withered and dead untill the evening, eyther through the ten 
detnefleofthcftalke, or by a naturall antipathy unto the Sunne, 
not to abide the fliining face thereof, tor fomc of the flowers doe 
abide on thefe branches that are mod (hadowed from the Sunne : 
the following ftuite they give is flat lomewhat like a Lupine with 
a thicke skinne, fit: mud be but fmall dore, for what quancitieof 
fruite can this tree beate if all orrhe mod of the flowers doe fall 
away) yet heart falhion, and of a greenifh afh colour, withadivi- 
fion in the middle, in each part whereof is contained fmall fiat 
beanes or kernells.like unto thole of the fweet beane or Carob tree, 
heart falhion likewife, and covered with a greenifh skinne or pee¬ 
ling, the inner kcrnell being white and fomewhat bitter. This tree 
hath been much defired to be tranfplanted into our Chriftian world, 
but as fome have faydic would not abide, notwithdandingall the 
care of earthenand wooddenvefl'clls, wherein it was plantedto be 
AiborTrifJu, The forrowfull nee. 
